authfriend wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote: >> >>> http://www.playpianotoday.com/updates.html >>> >>> I think, at 6:56 he sez octave is the toughest interval >>> for him to hear. That's strange. For me it's by far the >>> easiest! :0 >>> >> That's what he says, and that is *very* odd. >> > > It's odd because the notes of an octave are the *same > note*, just at a higher frequency (I think that's the > term). I don't know the physics of it, but he should > be able to tell that middle C and C above middle C are > the same in a way that middle C and the B above middle > C, say, are not. > > I'm not sure what *makes* them the same...anybody know?
The same note but double the frequency. A 440 an octave higher is A880. Hearing it often depends on whether it's an octave on the same instrument or two instruments. For instance it would be easier to tell piccolos doubling the clarinet part an octave higher than on a piano or synth like he is playing in the video. Also octaves in the bass on a piano are easy to recognize because of their heaviness.
