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

Silly? Don't think so. Not if your amp produces a lot of
7th, 11th, 13th harmonic.

Depends where you define "a lot." If the 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics are up anywhere near the level of the fundamental, I wouldn't call it an amp. I'd call it a broken pile of parts.

The point is the input source material contains harmonics
and fundamentals. The brain locks all these together and
produces an instrument out of it. Each recipe of harmonics and
fundamental defines an instrument that the brain somehow
recognizes as such.

Sure.

Now an amp comes along and alters the recipe(s). The high
order harmonics are more like spices than basic ingredients
(a little goes a long way). Throw some 7th into the mix, but
only a pinch. Too much spoils the batch. The 11th even worse,
13th... worse than that.

Yes.

I wasn't saying that higher order harmonics should simply be ignored. Only that it's rather silly to relate them to the music scale itself. Rather it's how the harmonics effect the tones of the instruments. Particularly given that the western, even-tempered scale you're relating them to isn't universal.

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