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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2003/10

From: "Todd Zimnoch" <toddz@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] (ob) Dark vs Bright sound vs decibel perception
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:56:37 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhondda May
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:10 AM
> To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
> Subject: Re: [DR-L] (ob) Dark vs Bright sound vs
> decibel perception
>
> It might be that a "bright" sound is perceived as
> louder because what I
> think one hears that one calls "bright" is the higher
> partials. I
> definitely think that a "dark" tone has more
> fundamental than overtones.

Interesting. I tend to think of the sounds with more overtones
to be deeper and darker sounding and the tones with primarily
fundamental to be bland sounding, not bright. Maybe 'dark' vs.
'bright' is a function of the overtones to each other rather than
to the primary. Has anyone done a Fourier Transform analysis on
different oboist's sounds?

> IMHO, a perfect sound is a perfect blend of fundamental and
> overtones....
> (kind of like coffee)

It'l also a matter of personal taste and preference. I tend to
like my coffee tasting curiously like tea sweetened with honey.
;)

-Todd