Klarinet Archive - Posting 000549.txt from 2000/06

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tones 2001 (not 2000)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:01:13 -0400

<><> Luby@-----.=A0Jackson=A0III
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.

No, it's part of a long running debate about how humans perceive
'dark' vs 'bright' tone color -- which ultimately is a question of
perceiving 'pitch recipes' or mixtures of overtones in a complex
vibration. You can visit
http://hughes38.som.ohio-state.edu/ to see some examples of these
'recipes', and you can search the Klarinet archives with the words
"Leeson" and "dark" to see some (several hundred) examples of the
discussion.
The core of the discussion is whether 'dark' and 'bright' have a
predictable meaning. That is, if many people heard the same assortment
of half-a-dozen tones, would they agree on which tones were 'dark' and
which were 'bright'?

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