if every single sound is a different type or vibration, then how can a single speaker produce songs with multiple instruments and multiple melodies?

Question

if every single sound is a different type or vibration, then how can a single speaker produce songs with multiple instruments and multiple melodies?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Waves of different frequencies can be superimposed together, like [this.](https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/quantum_theory_waves/waves_added.gif)

Your ears and brain are very good at hearing a complex waveform which is the superimposed sum of hundreds or even thousands of different simple waves like those, and picking it apart into all its components to figure out what they are and how they fit with each other.