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In the Thread: Making musical instruments by audio person?
Post Subject: What's newPosted by steverino on: 4/14/2014
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"There is a
difference between the player's ear and the listeners ear. Fiddlers
tend to be deaf to their own instrument, hearing fatigue on the side
where the instrument is held. A great instrument tone seems to more a mutual agreement between the player and audience.
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Of course there were all kinds of methodological issues with the "field study" cited on violinists' taste in instruments. Perhaps the most obvious is the dishabituation effect so prevalent in audiophilia. This is produced when something sounds better or at least different in precisely the area where the current system is weak. It is also true that different violinists produce different tone from the same violin. Sometimes that tone complements the instrument's tonaility other times it goes against it. Can't we say the same thing about different tubes in a given component? If a Strad or other classic violin could be taken apart and analyzed with perfect accuracy then presumably we would unlock the secret of their tonality. But the idea that there is some kind of Emperor's clothes conspiracy that extends across the centuries since these violins were made is preposterous.
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