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Re: The paper can't be that good and here's why...

Great input mfc. Your reference removes a lot of 'head scratching' about the problem of higher order harmonics.
Let me quote from 'Science and Music' Sir James Jeans 1937 , p87: "... all these (first) six harmonics form parts of the common chord of the fundamental note, and so are concordant with this note and with one another. The seventh harmonic, however, introduces an element of discord; if the fundamental tone is c', its pitch is approximately b (flat)''', which forms a dissonance with c. The same is true with the ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, and all higher odd-numbered harmonics; these add dissonance as well as SHRILLNESS (caps mine) to the fundamental tone, and so introduce a roughness or harsheness into the composite sound. The resultant quality of tone is often described as 'metallic' , since a piece of metal, when struck, emits a sound which is rich in discordant high tones. "
Does this sound like some audio equipment that you have heard? ;-)

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