Klarinet Archive - Posting 000531.txt from 2000/06

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Tones 2001 (not 2000)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:22:21 -0400

With some guidance and encouragement from Jim Pyne, I have been
reading more about tone perception experiments that have been done
already.
The bottom line is that I have abandoned the idea of making an
'experimental CD' for this year's ClarinetFest. But next year.....
we'll see.

It's a bit of an education to realize that every tone in 'real
life' is a composite of many different pitches (partials) and yet, for
the most part, the human ear+brain gets past all the extra information
in a tone and assigns a single predictable pitch to it. This includes
even if the frequency of the 'perceived pitch' isn't present in the
waveform at all, but is implied somehow.
Another wake up call was Benade's statement that sometimes
experienced musicians can't even tell which octave a certain tone is in!
I found this very difficult to believe until I was tootin' on my
newly-rented bass clarinet and suddenly I realized that I was playing in
the 'wrong' register without being aware of it.
....and of course, getting access to the necessary equipment can be
a road block. I'm not sure that the equipment to do what I had in mind
(initially) even exists.

Maybe next year. (but it does make me curious to see what my own
tone, such as it is, looks like when graphed)

Cheers,
Bill

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