[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark D. Lew) wrote:
>For what it's worth, in my world we like to distinguish between wobble and
>vibrato. Of course I realize that "wobble" is hardly a technical term, but
>it's not the same as vibrato either.

Actually it may be a technical term.  From undergrad psychology courses
many years ago, I seem to remember that there is a transition point at
around 7 cycles per second.  A variation faster than that is percieved as a
vibrato, while a variation slower than that is percieved as individual
pulses or "wobble."

I also seem to remember that 7 per second is a frequency that sets off a
seisure (sp?) in some epileptics, as portrayed by the petit mal blackouts
of the doctor in "The Andromeda Strain."  Of course in the movie they
didn't actually have the lights flashing at 7 per second, for obvious
reasons!

John


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