Klarinet Archive - Posting 001138.txt from 2003/03

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: C clarinet
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:10:09 -0500

<><> Rebecca=A0Brennan wrote:
the dark tone. Every single day I try to discover what it is.

Some of us - sometimes - try to limit the meaning of "dark" to reduced
amplitude of higher partials. The problem is that often two person's
ears don't agree when listening to different sound samples without a
spectrum analyzer being present, and even if a machine is available, the
graph contains so much information --- all jammed together --- that
persons can't agree which elements of the graph account for their
opinion of 'bright' or 'dark' (or round or mellow or focused or......)

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