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Melinda FeldmannCombination Tones
What is a Combination Tone?
Combination Tone In musical acoustics, faint tone produced in the inner ear
by two simultaneously sounded musical tones.
Because such tones are caused by the ear rather than by the external source of the sound,
they are sometimes called subjective, or resultant, tones. There are two varieties: difference tones (D) and summation tones (S), generated respectively by the frequency differential of the two pitches or
the sum of their frequencies.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica:
“When two pure tones are played together, it sometimes sounds as though a third tone is also present. For example, a person simultaneously hearing two loud tones of 800 and
1000 hertz may also report hearing another, quieter tone at about the pitch one would expect from a 200 Hertz stimulus.
More generally, if two generating tones, or primary tones, of frequency U (for the upper tone) and
L (for the lower tone) are played together, people will undersome conditions report hearing a difference tone (or first
difference tone) that sounds like a tone presented at frequency U - L, despite the fact that waveform analysis
may show no sound wave at that frequency.”
Expanded Explanation of Different Types of Combination Tones
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/TitchDemo030417.htm
Expanded Explanation Continued
“Similarly, people sometimes report hearing, in addition to or insteadof the first difference tone, a second difference tone at approximately
the pitch one would expect from a stimulus of frequency 2L - U (inother words, 600 hz, if the generating tones are 800 and 1000 hz).
British Psychologist Edward B. Titchener also describes a third difference tone at 3L - U and a summation tone at U + L. Other
investigators report tones at 3L - 2U, 4L - 3U, 2U - 2L, 3U - 3L, and other frequencies. These are known as combination tones.
In stimuli with prominent overtones (overtones have a frequency that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency
of the stimulus, such as 2U, 3U, 4U, etc.), people sometimesreport hearing combination tones arising from the overtones.”
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/TitchDemo030417.htm
Why Do We Hear Combination Tones?It is widely believed that sound frequencies picked up
by the inner ear create the third tone, then transmitting
the information to the brain, causing the listener to hear the combination tone.
However, when using headphones with one pitch in each ear, listeners still reported hearing combination
Tones. One optional theory uses the Bohlen-Pierce Scale.
Example fromBohlen-Pierce
Scale:
C - G - A, tuned to
harmonics 3, 5, & 7.
Visual Example of Difference Toneshttp://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/beats.htm
Audio Example of a Combination Tone
Listen to pitch #1: Listen to pitch #2:
Now listen to the two pitches, combined. When they are played simultaneously,
the two pitches create a third pitch, the Combination Tone:
See if you can hear the combination tone in the example below. Listen to the two individualpitches first, then listen to them together to see if you can hear the combination tone.
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Video Example of a Combination Tone(Also known as the Tartini Tone)
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAJM6_L5K8
SourcesBohlen-Pierce Scale. (n.d.) Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen-Pierce_scale
Combination Tones. (n.d.). In Encyclopedia Britannica online. Retrieved fromhttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/127336/combination-tone
Interference Beats and Tartini Tones. (n.d.) Retrieved fromhttp://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/beats.htm
Schwitzgebel, Eric (n.d.). Difference Tone Training. Retrieved from http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/TitchDemo030417.htm
Tartini Tones on Pennywhistles. (December 4, 2007). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAJM6_L5K8