Klarinet Archive - Posting 000327.txt from 1996/11

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Rough, smooth, dark, bright
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:01:53 -0500

At 10:30 AM 11/15/96, 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.
>>
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Jonathan Cohler
>> cohler@-----.net
>
>So may we extrapolate that as we age and lose high frequency hearing
>all horns will sound "darker" to us?
>
>--
>Jim Harper, LCSW
>UAMS Dept. of Pediatrics
>Little Rock, AR
>jharper@-----.edu

Absolutely.

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Jonathan Cohler
cohler@-----.net