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Melodics

What is Pitch ?

Sound is created by vibrations. In music world , all musical instruments creates different type of sound wave vibration. The Pitch is the frequency of sound wave vibrations and measured in hertz  (abbreviated Hz).

Frequency is the number of waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time. In other word , the total number of vibrations or oscillations made by the particles per unit time is called the Wave Frequency.

frequency

Higher frequency makes a higher pitch and Lower frequency makes a lower pitch.

For example, when an musical instrument plays different notes, they are more accurately different pitches.

Pitch is used to tune musical instruments. The following  table as an

Note NameOctaveFrequencyTime
C016.351 
C#017.324 
D018.354 
E020.601 
F021.827 
F#023.124 
G024.499 

example of the frequencies of all notes in ten octaves to a thousandth of a hertz. Octaves are presented in the Scientific Pitch Notation format, also commonly referred to as American Pitch Notation and International Pitch Notation.

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