Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 1997/11

From: PGAYR@-----.com
Subj: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ricardo Morales Recital
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:46:02 -0500

Roger Shilcock wrote about my comments on sound:
Of course different *woods* vibrate differently. Nobody is talking about
wood. It's *air*******, for Gawd's sake.
Eminent designer though Tom R. is, what he's saying is not common sense,
and according to some authorities, not even provable.
Roger Shilcock
Roger,
I'm very sorry. I thought we were talking about the materials making a
difference in the sound. That means to me that we are not talking about air,
for Gawd's sake, I haven't even heard anyone mention air -what was being
talking about as far as I could ascertain the matter of materials making
and actual objective difference in the playing and sounding qualities of
instruments, or was it just a purely subjective matter and only the players
imagination. I do not recall the word "air" in the original claim that
materials did not make a difference. Perhaps it was there, I just don't
remember it.
Perhaps you have been doing some airy thinking???? But the point of my
comments was concerned with the heard and felt effects of energy on different
densities and thicknesses of substances: is there a real difference in sound
or not? We are not concerned with the air primarily here, only the effects of
the energy transmitted by the air.
Clearly, in each action the hammer (air) andthe arm which swings it (energy)
are the same, but are the effects they produce on difference substances
objectively different. I was saying only that obviously it is. I can hear
it, for Gawd's sake.
Tom