Klarinet Archive - Posting 000696.txt from 2000/11

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Opinions and metaphors
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:21:00 -0500

<><> Tony Pay wrote:
What makes me so sure? Why, because I've tried it myself, of course;-)

Aiyeee! Don't leave me hanging, Tony!

For example, when you played a purposefully <choose your metaphor>
tone, was it obvious that the even-numbered harmonics went up or down?
did the slopes become steeper or flatter? did the ratios between the
peaks take on the same relationship each time that your ear believed you
were playing the same tone, etc?
Did you do this on your own PC or in a university lab with megabuck
equipment? Was it just a one-time experiment during a cook's tour, or
did you repeat it until you decided there was nothing more to see? Did
you keep printed spectra and cogitate about them afterwards?

In your other post, you asserted that the ear delivers better data.
Is this really true? Think about all the illusions and dependencies
that have been described --- for example, pitch perception depends on
loudness, and so forth. I don't intend to demean a musician's ear when
I say this, but examining a graphic representation *has* to provide
additional information, I would think.
Think about golfers who (presumably) have direct neural connections
between their brains and their arms, but when they see their stroke in a
video, they say, "Oh! I didn't realize I was doing that."

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