Klarinet Archive - Posting 000315.txt from 2001/05

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Materials (was[kl] buffet clarinets)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 07:06:28 -0400

On Fri, 11 May 2001 07:03:54 -0400, bhausmann1@-----.com said:

> At 10:47 PM 5/10/2001 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:

> These experts have not done a study on what the performer senses -
> only on what the audience hears.
>
> > The following quote says a lot:
> >
> > "They may not hear a difference, but I sure feel a difference
> > between wood and non-wood."
>
> But can you "feel" the difference between really GOOD wood and so-so
> wood? Or between wood and Greenline material? Or are such feelings,
> as I suspect, mostly psychological? If your fingers can actually feel
> the difference when playing, such hypersensitivity must cause you
> AGONY when performing even the most mundane household tasks.

I suspect he means an extended sense of the word 'feel' -- as in, how we
perceive the instrument to respond.

Slightly more frivolously: I wonder what would happen if you did an
experiment designed to determine whether listeners could tell whether a
performer had a good reed or not?

And if it turned out that an audience *couldn't* tell the difference
between good and less good reeds, would it mean that the difference
between good and bad reeds was 'only' subjective or psychological?

Tony
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