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- Thread starter Arjank
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What I actually meant to say was that the "clang" possibly comes from the odd order harmonics. Not the 2nd in particular because it's indeed way to low to produce that " clang"
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Got to wonder if you understood. What you are saying? Odd order, even order? It's totally immaterial. It's at the same frequency for all the strings on a neck, and relates to scale length.
I know what I'm saying and I totally understand the concept
In audio 2nd and 3rd order is 2xfundamental and 3xfundamental
Stringed instruments 1st harmonic and 2nd harmonic is 2xfundamental and 3xfundamental.
And with "odd" is meant the 3rd, 5th etc order in audio.
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I almost hate to throw this back in to the discussion, but as most would define the term what we hear as 'clang' actually is inharmonicity.
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It's also not related to the string's pitch, thus, it's not any overtone mathematically tied to the fundamental - let alone of some "order".
Well, I feel that the "clang" is not created by multiples (x2, x2, x2, x2 etc) of the fundamental tone but by the uneven harmonics (and I don't mean the harmonics you play on the instrument).
Why do I feel it like that? I Don't know, the " clang" sound just doesn't sound like harmony. It's sounds kinda dirty, thats why I think that uneven harmonic content creates this dirtyness.
