Klarinet Archive - Posting 000815.txt from 1996/08

From: Andy Gulati <A_Gulati@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Re the "gut feel"
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:32:07 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

>I know that music is a subjective business, at least the performance
>side of it is. But when it comes to matters of physics and
>whether or not an unbiased listener can tell something, subjectivity
>is not a reliable tool.

If music is a subject business, I'm not sure what the objective arguement
is about.

>And thus, it does not matter what one's wife hears, or one's student,
>or even the player. We are beset with so many subjective phenomena
>that we simply cannot trust our ears on issues such as this.

If we cannot trust our ears, then what do human beings have to guage
musical performance. I know when I hear a bright, crass sound coming from a
woodwind instrument, I'm not too crazy about it....and in the end that is
all that matters to the listener.

Andy Gulati