[Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments

[Chris Tune]

Yes, that is learning and it is not a statement that there is no learning involved to say that there are localized areas which process certain aspects of recognition.  We recognize words. . .and we recognize whether it is a male speaker or a female speaker. . .we recognize the male / female part regardless of whether we understand the language.  I can tell a male German speaker from a female German speaker but I know very little German.

There are radically different places in the brain that do this. . . .a conscious effort can result in retraining perception to allow for much greater awareness of individual harmonics. . . I do this, because I have a very strong desire to compare different timbres in a systematic way. . .in order to understand why things are happening.

Once again, I don't know or think this will help play the horn.  I'm thinking I want to understand how horns do what they do.

Chris

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Albert 
  To: Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Franconia DPW 
  Cc: Chris Tune ; TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments





  On 6/6/06, Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Franconia DPW <timothy.a.richardson at us.army.mil> wrote: 
     There is no learning
    involved, it is hardwired.  Of course musicians become more sophisticated, 
    but everybody does these things to some extent.

  Isn't that contradictory?  One sentence says there is no learning involved, then the next sentence says that some people do it differently after they work on it.  Isn't that learning? 

  Jeff