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Originally Posted by jimhelm
maybe it's my ear, but I couldn't discern much of a diff in tones. too high for my ear, I guess.
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I don't perceive much of "notes" here either. I would imagine you would need multiple anvils tuned to different relative pitches--relative because most percussion idophones (such as drumset cymbals) do not have a true pitch, but a sort of general swell in the harmonics which the ear hears in a general scale in relation to other idiophones. The anvil does appear to sound different "notes" when struck in different places (such as a ride cymbal's "bell" sound), but the dominant overtones really wash out most of these differences. They might be more apparent if the anvil were "choked" between notes, but I imagine it's not as easy as stopping a few pounds of b20 bronze from vibrating.
By the way I thought this was going to be about
Anvil.