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Re: Ebony trim in Lincolns

Author: Shorthand
Date: 2005-11-07 06:45

There used to be some discussion here about it, I thought in the equipment seciont but i couldn't find it. However the bottom line of that article is that the wall material is about 1/10,000th of the sound. (That's -50 dB.)

A metal clarinet and a hardwood clarinet of the exact same internal dimensions should be nearly indistinguishable to the human ear. (The ear CAN cover that many orders of magnitude, actually closer to 8 or so, but not at the same time (each order of magnitude is 10 dB or one factor of 10 - think about what you can hear under an 60 dB movie or car ride, about 30-40 db, so figure the ear can cover -20-30 dB of dynamic range at any given moment. Therefore -50 dB should be beyond our ability to hear.)

If you get a material that has a similar speed of sound to hardwood and can form it with more or less the same surface roughness, the two should be acoustically identical.

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