Tones [was Re: the electrix repeater]

["Bill Fox" <billfox@fast.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com 
<Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Date: Saturday, August 04, 2001 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: the electrix repeater
>Real instruments have both good and "bad" emergent phenomena.
>Things like "wolf tones" on a guitar or "throat notes" on a
>clarinet are "bad".  Things like harmonics or overtones
>are good.

I've heard or wolf tones, iirc.  They're the notes that howl due to 
reinforcing
resonances.  Would a throat tone be the opposite, that is, the note dies?

Cheers,

Bill