A Rule of Thumb: The Bandwidth for Timbre Invariance Is One Octave

Stephen Handel, Molly L. Erickson

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2001 · 58 citations · 9 references

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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.

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