Klarinet Archive - Posting 001107.txt from 2000/05

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] A meaningful experiment
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:05:44 -0400

I wonder if you're not being lured into an intellectual trap. If "dark"
means something to enough people it is not how you define it; it is how the
mass of listeners defines it. Don't tell them what "dark" is until you
find out if there is any concensus.

Allen
At 01:52 PM 5/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
> <><> Lelia wrote:
>That [experiment], it seems to me, would still be a useful thing to do,
>since so many of us want to use the word (despite the bickering about
>it).
>
>
> Lelia, it's true that ClarinetFest would be the ideal opportunity
>to do an experiment of some sort.
> With my 'new' understanding of tone <heh!>, perhaps the following
>would be informative:
>
> Inform the audience that, for the purpose of this experiment, the
>meaning of 'dark' is restricted to a tone with fewer high harmonics.
>The test tones will be single unaccompanied long tones of uniform pitch
>and constant volume in an otherwise quiet room. (in other words, no
>music!)
> We would ask several players with proven skills -- there will be
>plenty of them at ClarinetFest -- to play several samples, each tone
>with a different overtone structure according to the player's own
>definition, but as constant as possible in all other respects.
> If the University of Oklahoma could provide an electronic gizmo to
>display the actual waveforms, the experiment would be even more
>interesting.
>
>
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