Audaciousness
One of my first year students, Dan, is performing an investigation into the relationship between the amount of water in a wine glass and the frequency of sound it emits when stroked. He used Audacity to sample the sounds and produced frequency spectra for a range of depths but found no difference even though the difference is clearly audible. It seems to be a problem with recording multiple runs on the same file (maybe). As a side experiment he compared the same sound using two computers and found that there was a considerable (4 Hz) difference between the results. Could this be due to the frequency response of the different microphones? Interesting.
For some reason the word audaciousness made me think of this: