How do unpitched percussion instruments not have a pitch and how does whatever noise they produce not potentially create dissonance with the music they complement?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

How do unpitched percussion instruments not have a pitch and how does whatever noise they produce not potentially create dissonance with the music they complement?

Alvaro@social.graves.cl · 4 months ago

@[email protected] percussion have a pitch. I don’t know about drums, but cymbals pitch is super high, so I guess it is not easy for our brains to translate into a note, so no disonance

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 months ago

Interesting point about cymbals :)

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czech@lemm.ee · 4 months ago

That’s how replies are made from mastodon afaik.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

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How do unpitched percussion instruments not have a pitch and how does whatever noise they produce not potentially create dissonance with the music they complement?

How do unpitched percussion instruments not have a pitch and how does whatever noise they produce not potentially create dissonance with the music they complement?