Timeline for Do all sounds that have a pitch have a fundamental frequency?
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| Aug 6, 2020 at 21:57 | comment | added | user137289 | On an equal-tempered scale, the frequencies of the notes do not differ by ratios that are rational numbers and the waveform of the sum of two notes will not be periodic. So this is not even true for musical sounds. | |
| Aug 6, 2020 at 18:53 | comment | added | alephzero | Real musical sounds often do not have constant amplitude (e.g. an acoustic guitar) so the idea that "sounds are composed of periodic waves" is probably too simple. Also, the sound of a bell for example will contain frequencies that are not simple multiples of each other, but the combination does not sound like "noise". | |
| Aug 6, 2020 at 18:49 | comment | added | Brick | For a "musical sound" you don't always need to have the fundamental at all. The brain will fill it in in some cases: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental | |
| Aug 6, 2020 at 18:14 | comment | added | trula | should I have said a musical sound? | |
| Aug 6, 2020 at 18:08 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | You seem to say that audible noise is not sound. I'm not sure that many people would agree with that. | |
| Aug 6, 2020 at 17:58 | history | answered | trula | CC BY-SA 4.0 |