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The sound of silence - for iPad/Mac/PC

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Why does each musical instrument have its own unique sound? What exactly distinguishes a guitar from a fiddle? Follow the story as we find out exactly how a musical note is produced and how to create the sound of silence. This material forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics.
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Episodes

Waves and harmonics

Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.

Aug 20, 2009•11 min

Recreating sounds

We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone

Aug 20, 2009•10 min

Transcript -- Recreating sounds

Transcript -- We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone

Aug 20, 2009
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