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Re: Tones [was Re: the electrix repeater]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com 
><Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Date: Saturday, August 04, 2001 1:26 AM
>Subject: Re: the electrix repeater
> >Real instruments have both good and "bad" emergent phenomena.
> >Things like "wolf tones" on a guitar or "throat notes" on a
> >clarinet are "bad".  Things like harmonics or overtones
> >are good.
>
>I've heard or wolf tones, iirc.  They're the notes that howl due to 
>reinforcing
>resonances.  Would a throat tone be the opposite, that is, the note dies?

In essence, yes -- throat tones are the tones near the "break"
that are harder to produce clearly and have pitching problems...

        /t


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