A Rule of Thumb: The Bandwidth for Timbre Invariance Is One Octave
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by University of California Press in Music Perception
- Vol. 19 (1) , 121-126
- https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2001.19.1.121
Abstract
Listeners were unable to determine whether two different notes separated by an octave or more were played by the identical or a different wind instrument and similarly were unable to determine whether a vowel sung at different pitches separated by an octave or more was sung by the identical or a different soprano or mezzo-soprano.Keywords
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