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The Limits of Recognizing the Tonality
Thus, while listening inside, the listener
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will eventually reach a limit where he can no longer discriminate the pitch of two neighbouring overtones; a limit where also his mental ability to differentiate, his intellectual ability to discriminate –
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with regard to the tone –
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are no longer efficient, and all further overtones will at best be perceived as noise.