Interesting article

[LTpianoman@AOL.COM]

Richard,

Below is an excerpt from the site you provided. Thanks. After reading it, and 
the rest of the info on the site, it seemed to me that this Subjective Tone 
theory (or theorem by now), would explain why unisons sound flatter (or 
sharper, I forget) than their respective single strings played seperately. 
Any thoughts?

Larry Trischetta, Pocono NE Chapter,
Scranton, PA

From: http://sleepy.millikin.edu/~jaskill.nsm.faculty.mu/subpitch.html  (John 
Askill, Millikin University):
A facinating series of experiments were conducted by Diana Deutsch, Professor 
of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and shown in the 
film "What is Music" (Nova, Coronet Films). In it she subjected a listener to 
one series of tones in the left ear and another series in the right ear. The 
resulting effect was a totally different series of tones, subjective tones. 
The same effect was produced by listening to orchestra music produced by two 
or more sections of an orchestra playing at the same time. In fact, pieces of 
subjective music have been written in which two instruments, such as flutes, 
play two different sequences of tones at the same time. The resulting tones 
being the melody, a subjective melody. 



In a message dated 4/6/00 11:35:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, richardb@c2i.net 
writes:

> Just thought I would throw this one into the mesh. Those of you
>  interested in what we actually hear when a string is excited will find
>  this of interest.
>  
>  http://sleepy.millikin.edu/~jaskill.nsm.faculty.mu/subpitch.html
>  
>  
>  
>  --
>  Richard Brekne
>  Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
>  Bergen, Norway
>