Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 1999/04

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Material irrelivant comment
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 23:57:18 -0500

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From: Dave Sandusky <daves@-----.com>
Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Material irrelivant comment

>... but I wouldn't be surprised
>if a blind testing (hearing) of a wooden and a plastic clarinet
side-by-side ended in a
>tie. The human ear just might not be precise enough to tell the difference
(all other
>variable being equal). Just a thought...

This test has been done many times and many places and reported on the list
several times. Listeners couldn't tell which was which.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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