In a message dated 2/11/2001 3:03:35 PM Central Standard Time, Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes: << :) I am not sure tho that voicing can change the frequencies of partials as much as their volumes.... and I am not at all sure that a sumnation of "changed" partial frequencies would then add up to show any significant difference. Virigils concept is rather wholistic in nature.... we need to look at coincident partials in that same light if we are going to figure him out. The only way to do that is to start putting many of them together and looking at their behaviour instead of looking at each of them individually as we presently do in our work. >> You are absolutely right. Voicing changes the partial spectrum mix by amplitude not frequency. What this means is that, depending on the voicing, one or another mix of formant partials will be predominant for use in tuning. PR-J
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