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Effect of frequency, timbre, experience, and feedback on musical tuning skills

Abstract

Subjects with tuning experience were superior to nontuners in a pitch-matching task at all but the lowest of five frequencies tested. Performance was better for adjustment of simple (sine-wave) tones to match simple tones than for adjustment of complex (string-timbre) tones to match simple tones. A comparison of constant errors showed that both tuners and nontuners heard complex tones as sharp relative to simple tones. Additional testing with 2 …

Authors

Platt JR; Racine RJ

Journal

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 543–553

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

November 1985

DOI

10.3758/bf03207064

ISSN

1943-3921