Re: [Harp-L] why I like steel reeds

[Frank Evers <frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 20. April 2008 schrieb Joe and Cass Leone:
> 1... If one takes a music box clock work mechanism,
[...]

> 2...If one takes a harmonica, [...]

You have to notice of course, that a music box and a harmonica produce 
sound from two totally different mechanisms.

In a music box it's the swinging of the reed itself thats amplified by 
a resonator (the box). However amplified though, what you hear is the 
signal coming directly from the reed (or tine).

In a harmonica airflow is cut by the swinging reed, and what you hear 
is the pulsating airflow, NOT the reed and if you look at the 
waveform of harmonia sound it doesn't look nearly like the sinus 
waveform produced from a swinging tine in a soundbox.

BTW, a soundbox doesn't have more overtones than a harmonica, but far 
less.

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Gruß,Frank