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021 = Inharmonics and Skin-harm-tonics

A Problem Squared

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The Tumbra of the Note

Tumbra, correct me if I'm wrong, is the mathematical formula of the difference between all of your partials. That decides the tumbra of the note. In-harmonicities are just harmonics you don't like. Get that on a t-shirt. Well, from a mathematical point of view I would just use harmonics to mean all the other frequencies that showed up but that may not be a rigorous way to do that in any discipline. Oh, you just got to get and also like making it a kind of a sign wavy in terms of its timbre as possible. To get rid of like the white noise. Yeah.

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