Timeline for Odd sound of Theremin
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| Jan 15, 2020 at 9:47 | comment | added | RedSonja | I used to have a neighbour who played a saw (a long wood saw with a violin bow), and it made much the same sound as a theremin. Played late in the evening, outside in the garden, in the dark, it was sometimes very eerie. | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 11:11 | history | edited | 1MegaMan1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2018 at 2:14 | answer | added | probably_someone | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 0:30 | answer | added | Steve | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 0:10 | comment | added | probably_someone | Most likely, it sounds artificial because you've been told it's artificial. If you had gone your whole life without hearing a french horn, and then heard one for the first time without being told what it was, I would bet that you would think it sounded "off", too. | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 0:05 | comment | added | probably_someone | A french horn also has most of its power in the first 5 harmonics: projectrhea.org/rhea/index.php/Fourier_analysis_in_Music. | |
| Feb 25, 2018 at 23:31 | comment | added | user137289 | There is also the gliding transitions between notes. | |
| Feb 25, 2018 at 23:16 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Certainly a violin produces a very harmonic-rich sound, compared to many other instruments. | |
| Feb 25, 2018 at 23:10 | history | asked | 1MegaMan1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |