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peak power levels of various musical instruments are listed in Table 5-2.

TABLE 5-2 Peak Power of Musical Sources

Frequency Range of Speech and Music

It is instructive to compare the frequency range of various musical instruments with that of speech.
This is best done graphically. Figure 5-10 shows the ranges of various musical instruments and
voices. It is important to note that this figure only shows the fundamental pitches and not the harmonic
overtones. Very low organ notes are perceived mainly by their harmonics. Certain high-frequency

noise accompanying musical instruments is not included, such as reed noise in woodwinds, bowing
noise of strings, and key clicks and thumps of piano and percussion instruments.