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Music voicing circuit deriving an input from a conventional musical instrument and providing voiced musical tones utilizing the fundamental tones from the conventional musical instrument

Abstract: A voicing circuit for use with a conventional musical instrument. A tone pickup is placed on a conventional instrument. For example, a single coil is placed beneath each string on a guitar. The signal formed is the fundamental colored with many harmonics. An electronic circuit filters the harmonics to leave a much cleaner fundamental. The fundamental is voiced by a voicing circuit to add harmonics in such portions as to achieve a desired voicing. The voiced output follows the conventional instrument in terms of relative volume, shift in fundamental, vibrato of the fundamental.

Studies in the phonology of asian languages vii korean affricates.

Abstract: : In Korean three affricate phonemes are found, all articulated with the tip of the tongue at the back of the teeth, and none phonemically distinguished by voicing. For a language such as this, acoustic parameters must be established which will enable the acoustic phonetician to distinguish the affricates, all articulated at the same point, as clearly as he can distinguish stops articulated at different points in the oral cavity. To describe more accurately the nature of distinctive features and acoustic cues of the phonological entities, the linguist employs acoustical equipment such as the sound spectrography, speech synthesizer, etc. Through the use of equipment of this type, acoustic phoneticians are able to identify many physical manifestations of different sounds, and have related them to their linguistic functions. (Author)