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Re: Resonance

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2013-11-16 16:50

The opinions on both sides of this are based for the most part, as yours are, on "feelings" and "beliefs." There have been reported lab experiments that generally point to a lack of acoustical influence of the material if all else is controlled for, but those studies don't ever seem to have convinced "believers" who have "strong feelings" that the results are either wrong or misleading because of the experimental conditions used to control the other variables.

This subject will probably always remain in the domain of "belief" and "strong feeling" until players with those attitudes come up with their own non-anecdotal lab experiments to support what they intuit to be the case.

But I am a little confused by what you wrote. Are you saying that a player's *perception* of a difference in sound between wood and plastic is somehow a function of his internal conduction of the sound not through the air? Or that there is some interaction among all those player characteristics and the material of the instrument that results in an audible difference of sound that may not occur when the same player or an artificial (non-human) blower/embouchure assembly is used for each instrument in an experimental setting? What exactly are you suggesting is being affected by the player's physical uniqueness that connects with the issue of the influence of material on an instrument's sound?

Karl

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