Klarinet Archive - Posting 000132.txt from 2004/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] What's wrong with using"dark" or "bright" to describe tone quality?
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 22:57:47 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:ormondtoby@-----.net]
>
> A common physical definition for "dark" is "reduced amplitude of the
> higher partials";

Well, part of the problem is that even this is an assumption some make
without any real certainty that this is responsible even for their own
perceptions of what is "dark" and what's "bright." For all anyone knows, it
may have nothing to do with amplitude of higher partials.

Karl Krelove

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