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DR. HARTRIDGE imputes to me great absurdities which, either in irony or by an excess of courtesy, he terms “slight errors” (NATURE, January 19, p. 76). Under (1) he takes my plain words, the result “must always be of the same nature,” to mean that the result must always be the same! Of course, the harmonic analysis of his oboe and flute combination will not give the same result as in the case of violin and cornet, but in both cases the result will be of the same nature, in that there will be only one fundamental tone. If the data supplied to the sensorium from the cochlea are simply the result of an harmonic analysis, the two notes must appear to the ear inseparably blended in one note. I have not left binaural audition out of consideration. The ability to distinguish two concurrent notes of the same pitch and different quality seems unaffected by both sources being equidistant from either ear.
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PERRETT, W. The Resonance Theory of Hearing. Nature 109, 176 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109176b0
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