Klarinet Archive - Posting 000539.txt from 2000/06

From: "Luby D. Jackson III" <mus_ldj@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tones 2001 (not 2000)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:07:02 -0400

Does this experiment involve semi-tones between actual pitches. These
"sub-tones" I cannot distinguish that well, but I can tell which octave
pitches are in because I listen to their color.

William Wright wrote:

> 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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