"It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate quite primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn't sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will sound like an organ."

https://www.linusakesson.net/music/reverberations/
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Ben wrote (2023-02-18):

"It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate quite primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn't sound like
a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will sound like an organ."

https://www.linusakesson.net/music/reverberations/

Very nice! It still sounds like a C64 (with a loudspeaker in a large hall), but it's not unconvincing.


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