Overtone
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overtone-308-8891014
title:
Overtone
text:
An overtone is any resonant frequency above the fundamental frequency of a sound. In other words, overtones are all pitches higher than the lowest pitch within an individual sound; the fundamental is the lowest pitch. While the fundamental is usually heard most prominently, overtones are actually present in any pitch except a true sine wave. The relative volume or amplitude of various overtone partials is one of the key identifying features of timbre, or the individual characteristic of a sound.
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description:
Tone with a frequency higher than the frequency of the reference tone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone
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2023-09-27T19:47:50Z
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