Klarinet Archive - Posting 000320.txt from 1996/11

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Rough, smooth, dark, bright
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:58:45 -0500

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Jim Harper wrote:

> Jonathan Cohler wrote:
> > Instruments with a higher cutoff frequency are uniformly categorized as
> > "brighter" in blind tests, and lower cutoff frequency gets categorized as
> > "darker". In fact, large changes in cutoff frequency on a particular note
> > of an instrument is immediately recognized by the listener as a change in
> > the fundamental "darkness" of the tone quality as well.
>
> So may we extrapolate that as we age and lose high frequency hearing
> all horns will sound "darker" to us?

This is *good* question. John? Response?