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Re: Live or Memorex (tangent to "...Big Masters" thread)

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2023-10-03 00:30

Hi Fuzzy,

I really have been wondering a lot about this and I'm really grateful to you for expressing it so well.

I feel as though there are so many complex elements to what we hear and experience in music.

I have listened to old masters' recordings and felt strongly that I am probably only perceiving 10% of the magic. I always wish I could be right there in the hall to know what it was like, and also now with today's professionals.

My son and I talk sometimes about how so much of the magic is when we feel the sound waves hitting our bodies, which is an experience that we only get with live music.

Then there are individual differences in perception - differences in acuteness of hearing, differences in the speed of processing in the two different ears, and lower or higher sensory sensitivity in different individuals. I also know that I hear my own playing through rose tinted spectacles, which is very nice for me, but hilarious for others.

I've been wishing recently that we could ask the older members of the forum if they could tell us what it was like to have these experiences of hearing great music maybe way back in the 40s or 50s. I especially wonder about the music halls in small towns, when they had live bands with clarinetists. I would love to hear more about that from people who were there.

I hope I am not derailing here and that I have understood right. Your question just really hits the spot with what I've been wondering. Please do ignore if I'm not getting it quite right.

Thanks for raising it!

Jen

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