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Letter: How low can we go, again?

Published 15 December 2015

From Alan Watson

The letters on hearing giraffe vocalisations at 92 hertz (Letters, 31 October) treat sound as if it contains only a single frequency. Vibrating objects produce a series of harmonics that are multiples of the fundamental frequency. The brain interprets this to give the sensation of the fundamental frequency – often even when this is not in fact present.
Cardiff, UK

Issue no. 3052 published 19 December 2015

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