Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 1996/11

From: Douglas Sears <dsears@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Rough, smooth, dark, bright
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:19:33 -0500

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Jim Harper wrote:

> So may we extrapolate that as we age and lose high frequency hearing
> all horns will sound "darker" to us?

I don't think so. Clarinet cutoff frequencies are rather low, around
1500-1800 Hz, and your hearing would be very poor if you couldn't hear
those frequencies. Besides, some degree of adaptation would occur,
because all other sounds would be equally "dark" to you. With very poor
high-frequency hearing, I think you would lose the ability to discriminate
between "dark" and "bright".

--Doug

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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears