Klarinet Archive - Posting 000567.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Tones 2001 (not 2000)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:07:57 -0400

But of course, these experiments are done to non musicians, right?

William Wright wrote:

> <><> Luby D. Jackson III
> 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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