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2. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

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   Below is a comparison between the first 31 harmonics and the intervals of 12-tone equal temperament (12TET), octave displaced and compressed into the span of one octave. Tinted fields highlight differences greater than 5 cents ( 1 ⁄ 20 of a semitone), which is the human ear's " just noticeable difference " for notes played one after the other ...

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4. Octave (electronics) - Wikipedia

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   In electronics, an octave (symbol: oct) is a logarithmic unit for ratios between frequencies, with one octave corresponding to a doubling of frequency. For example, the frequency one octave above 40 Hz is 80 Hz. The term is derived from the Western musical scale where an octave is a doubling in frequency.

5. Steam whistle - Wikipedia

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   A whistle is a quarter-wave generator, which means that a sound wave generated by a whistle is about four times the whistle length. If the speed of sound in the steam supplied to a whistle were 15936 inches per second, a pipe with a 15-inch effective length blowing its natural frequency would sound near middle C: 15936/(4 x

6. Electric organ - Wikipedia

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   Chimes stop / Piano stop (Gulbransen [27]) Vocal chorus (Farfisa Pergamon in 1981) Electronic rhythm (Wurlitzer Sideman in 1959, Seeburg & Gulbransen in 1964 [27]) One-touch chords (Hammond S-6 Chord Organ in 1950) Automatic Orchestra Control (Lowrey organ in 1963) [28] — turns a single note (on upper manual) into a full chord (designated on ...

7. 12 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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   12-tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. 12 equal temperament (12-ET) [a] is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).

8. Cent (music) - Wikipedia

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   Félix Savart (1791-1841) took over Sauveur's system, without limiting the number of decimals of the logarithm of 2, so that the value of his unit varies according to sources. With five decimals, the base-10 logarithm of 2 is 0.30103, giving 301.03 savarts in the octave. [33] This value often is rounded to 1/301 or to 1/300 octave. [34] [35]

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