Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-12-02 09:29
training? remembering?
surely these are descriptive personifications, creative license?
... tonewood is wood that has physical properties particularly adapted to sound frequencies
it makes sense to me that producing sound frequencies inside a hollow pipe could compress the wood fibres enough over time to cause them to resonate a bit sharp or flat if notes aren't played in tune regularly
although it could be argued nobody's air turbulence is actually strong enough to do that to tough grenadilla
yet there remains the anecdotal recommendation to 'blow in' a new wood oboe, to 'train' or 'settle' the instrument, one could argue that's got nothing to do with the tuning as blowing in is done for totally different reasons
when we factor in heat and humidity, we know steam is used to shape wood, and we know that wood becomes more plastic and 'molds' faster in the presence of moist heat, and is more stable, rigid and resistant when it's kept dry
we all practice long tones which subject the wood to heat, humidity and prolonged vibrational compression at specific frequencies
experienced people tell us that definitely does something to wood over time, and if tonewood is particularly adaptive to sound frequencies, why couldn't it settle down to 'remembering' sound frequencies?
like A440, spot on :-}
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