> > From: Michiel van der Linden wrote: > > Sure we can hear above 5000 Hz unless there is severe hearing damage. > It is however very hard to discern and name actual *pitches* in and above > that region. The way our neurons pass the information to our brain only > functions optimally up to 5000 Hz. > > http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4077 >
Thanks for the link Michiel. A few paragraphs in, I found this "The ear, on the other hand, can separate up to a hundred different sound frequencies, corresponding to the number of frequencies that can be separated by the basilar membrane." Personally I feel "up to a hundred different sound frequencies" is a bit of an understatement. With 88 notes on a piano, and since most of us can differentiate a note which is more than a few dozen cents out, I'd have thought several hundred was not unreasonable. Is this writer reliable? Not everything on the WEB can be taken as gospel. I tried the sound test from an earlier post and though I couldn't "hear" the higher ones (as I could up to 12k) I felt a kind of pressure while the tracks were playing, particularly on the highest! Is this the note itself affecting me, or background noise from the track, I wonder. Anyone else notice this? Simon V _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
