Klarinet Archive - Posting 000275.txt from 2005/08

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Ah, ligatures....Gold vs. Silver
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:49:31 -0400

I wrote:

> A musician with a good ear can probably
> remember timbres from his (or her) first pass
> through a pile of instruments and then
> re-identify them blindfolded during a second
> run through the pile --- regardless of what
> caused the differences in timbre.

...but since Kevin's wife didn't hear the differences, and since Kevin
used the verb "_felt_", perhaps it's more believable that Kevin may've
subconsciously remembered details about the "feel", such as resistance
or embouchure, required to produce the same pitch/timbre with each
instrument?

When comparing mouthpieces and so forth, I've caught myself deciding at
first that two of them were equivalent, and then I realized that I was
working (subconsciously) to make them sound the same to my ear.
Presumably such subconscious efforts can be remembered as easily as a
sound can be remembered?

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