Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:02:45 -0400

At 04:12 PM 8/14/2000 -0700, William Wright wrote:
> It was a novel idea to me that, in addition to everything else,
>there are fewer tone colors available at higher pitches -- no matter
>what your playing skills or hearing capacity happen to be.
>
That was sort of my point. Once the overtones exceed the range of human
hearing and the fundamental is all that is heard at significant levels to
matter, a clarinet sounds like a piccolo, or piccolo trumpet, or violin,
etc. -- in essence, the tone approaches a sine wave to the ear. At lower
pitches, where the overtones are better heard, the differences become
clearer. The distinct tonal qualities of individual instruments become
more apparent, and the tones more "interesting."

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