Samenvatting
It is well-known that our hearing organ is not completely intensive to changes in the phase relation between the harmonics of a complex tone. Applying a digital computer both for signal generation and response processing, some experiments were carried out in which complex tones with equal loudness and pitch but different phase and amplitude patterns of the harmonics were compared in triads by subjects. The results were analysed with the Kruskal multidimensional scaling program.