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Perceptual Coherence : Hearing and Seeing

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The Perception of Quality: Auditory Timbre 341<br />

Figure 8.1. The vibration modes found on a two-dimensional plate. Different<br />

driving frequencies give rise to different patterns of nodal lines. See text for a full<br />

description.<br />

output will vary from note to note. A good sound body is shaped so that its<br />

strongest vibration modes fall at the frequencies of musical notes.<br />

Wind Instruments: Air Vibration Within Hollow Tubes<br />

We can imagine the vibration of a string as the up-down movement of individual<br />

masses along that string <strong>and</strong> the vibration of a plate as the up-down

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