The Subjective Lowering of Pitch

Abstract

As a question arising out of Mr. Harding's letter (p. 103), it would be interesting to know what is the effect produced by sounding a note loud enough to produce the subjective distortion, while at the same time the note to which it appears to be flattened is sounded more quietly. I suppose discord would be inevitable, but possibly a musical ear would be able to judge whether subjective distortion was prevented in the loud, or produced in the softer, note.