Klarinet Archive - Posting 000754.txt from 2003/08

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] 'Measuring' music (was: Rossi and Patricola vs Buffet)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:43:59 -0400

Forest Aten wrote:

> How about just a few minimum objective
> criteria: use different players, different
> locations, different days, different reeds..you
> name it....it can all be tracked and measured.
> It just takes time and effort.

> [snip]

> Clarity of sound: panel evaluates each note
> on the clarinet....the "no fuzz, no buzz" test

Forest, this could become a "tempest in a tea pot" sort of debate ---
which would bore everyone else on the list --- and presumably neither of
us wants to do so.

So instead of debating, may I just ask you: What is the difference
between "objective" and "subjective" as you are using the words?

For example, if I ask 100 people to each play ten different clarinets
and then I ask them, "Which clarinet has the least fuzzy, least buzzy
sound?", can I tabulate their answers and declare that I have achieved
an "objective" standard for fuzzy & buzzy?

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