{"id":213424,"date":"2025-05-07T05:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/would-a-musical-triangle-of-any-other-shape-sound-as-sweet"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:24:55","slug":"would-a-musical-triangle-of-any-other-shape-sound-as-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/would-a-musical-triangle-of-any-other-shape-sound-as-sweet","title":{"rendered":"Would a musical triangle of any other shape sound as sweet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/would-a-musical-triangle-of-any-other-shape-sound-as-sweet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The triangle is a small instrument made of a metal rod bent into a triangle shape that is open at one corner. While small, its sound is distinct, with multiple overtones and nonharmonic resonance. But what causes the surprisingly powerful sound?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/triangle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">triangle<\/a> instrument produces enchanting and beautiful tones, raising deep and profound questions about the connection between music and physics,\u201d author Risako Tanigawa said. \u201cOptical sound measurement has only been applied to limited subjects until now. By observing the sound field of a triangle for the first time, we captured phenomena not previously explored through microphone observations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <i>JASA Express Letters<\/i>, Tanigawa and colleagues at NTT Corporation and Waseda University in Japan captured sound fields around musical triangles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The triangle is a small instrument made of a metal rod bent into a triangle shape that is open at one corner. While small, its sound is distinct, with multiple overtones and nonharmonic resonance. But what causes the surprisingly powerful sound? \u201cThe triangle instrument produces enchanting and beautiful tones, raising deep and profound questions about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}