AN APPROACH TO ELECTRONIC ORGAN DESIGN.
Abstract
Electronic organ sounds have lacked the warmth and beauty of pipes, as reported by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and others. Also, the electronic instruments do not imitate pipe organs sufficiently in sound and operation so that performing artists may be comfortable with, and artistically challenged by them. Therefore, electronic organ design should begin with analysis of pipe organs. Harmonic analysis was performed on the sound produced by a total of thirty-six organ pipes from five stops. Charts show the average harmonic patterns for each stop and the observed standard deviations. The range of harmonic patterns within each stop was not great enough to destroy its stop identity, although many deviations were aurally detectable. This indicates that each note in a synthetic rank need not, and perhaps should not, have an identical tonal structure. Electronic synthesis of the flute and principal harmonic patterns was approximated through waveshaping and a linear combination of simple waveshapes from octave sources. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0635265
Entities
People
- Donald D. Marler
Organizations
- University of Missouri