Klarinet Archive - Posting 000536.txt from 2005/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Leadership Qualities
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:31:08 -0500

On 21 Mar, ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya) wrote:

> I wrote:
>=20
> > Despite people's inability to agree on the word's [dark, bright, etc]=

> > precise meaning, it seems almost instinctual for people of many diffe=
rent
> > backgrounds to use it. =A0 Perhaps someday we'll understand [more abo=
ut
> > these words than we do today].
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> Dan Leeson wrote:
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> > The use of these terms is little more than a plot and wicked cabal. T=
he
> > use of incomprehensible terminology by these people will cause them t=
o
> > suffer some day. =20

OK, fuck it. I'm prepared to say that the words 'dark' and 'bright' as
applied to sounds are meaningful, and comprehensible, and valuable.

What I mean by them is that 'bright' sounds contain a higher proportion o=
f
high frequency harmonics than 'dark' sounds. I also assert that this
difference can be appreciated by sensitive people who don't really know w=
hat
'high harmonics' actually are.

And if I, and those who agree with me, continue to insist on this, then t=
he
terms will get more and more useful.

Of course, words change their meaning over time and place. So if necessa=
ry,
we can stabilise them so that they mean something that we can agree on, a=
nd
that will be useful.

(I never thought, BTW, that the disagreements did any damage. They just
showed rather clearly that some people are clueless.)

Tony
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