1 Introduction - Music , Harmonics and Over - tones
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Prof. Raman found that the Indian drums all produced harmonics, whereas the western drums do not, a fact that is proved theoretically. He also found that that the density distribution present as a central black patch on the Indian drums is not of the type r. However, R.Siddharthan, P.Chatterjee and Vikram Tripathi have stated in their paper 1 that they found the harmonics of the Indian Drums all in order, except the fundamental, which was higher than what it should have been. This article presents two theoretical models (or distributions) one of which was found to yield frequency ratios identical to those found by R.Siddharthan et al. see Physics Education Oct. 1994.
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