{"id":173,"date":"2015-12-29T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supermediocre.org\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-07-12T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:24:37","slug":"analyzing-the-sound-of-commercial-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supermediocre.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/29\/analyzing-the-sound-of-commercial-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing Xylophone Sound Clips Found On the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the previous posts note, the desired frequency ratios for the first 3 partials of a xylophone are 1:3:6. \u00a0However, I needed to know how accurate these frequencies had to be to yield a nice-sounding instrument. I couldn’t find comments on the web about the tuning accuracy requirements, so I set out to spectrally measure some instruments to serve as a guidepost. Specifically, I needed\u00a0to know how accurate I needed to tune the fundamental and higher partials.<\/p>\n

Finding Sound Samples On the Web<\/h2>\n

The web was pretty skimpy when it came finding sound clips of xylophones.<\/p>\n

Here was the first clip that I found – basically a guy playing a C-major scale. There was no info on the type of xylophone he was playing, but it looked pretty decent.<\/p>\n