Klarinet Archive - Posting 000697.txt from 2004/07

From: Jim Alguire <jalguire@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Measuring sound character
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:26:21 -0400

I've been out of the electronics field for too long maybe for this to
be a meaningful question, but if we define the character of the sound
as the quantity or quality of the overtones, would it not be simple to
measure the nature of the overtones with a device like an oscilloscope?

Jim Alguire
On Jul 18, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Karl Krelove wrote:

> But what SOMEone should do (I'm not volunteering - I lack both the
> means and
> the laboratory training even to know what means would be needed) is
> sit down
> with whatever acoustic instrumentation is needed and make some sound
> measurements. It seems as if some preliminary but valid results could
> be
> gotten with two or three barrels made to identical specs in three
> different
> materials, measuring the sound a player produced with each barrel using
> whatever would show the overtone spectrum of the resulting tone. Those
> with
> the scientific knowledge, fill in the blank for the measuring device.
>

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