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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2003/10

From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] (ob) Dark vs Bright sound vs decibel perception
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:44:48 -0400

Oh, my. . . ..

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Todd Zimnoch wrote:

> > -----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
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