Hans' comment re the indelible memory of errors reminds me of this story from 1001 Arabian Nights:
http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Vol_5/tale100.htm Maybe NHR, maybe not. David G On 3/12/2011 4:37 PM, Hans Pizka wrote: > The strongest impact of brass instruments could have been > made by the trumpets of Jericho, perhaps. > > But there are other impacts like the beginning of Oberon. If played > perfectly ten times in a row or more often, nobody cares, but if you > crack it, they will talk about it even in ten thousand years& tell you > that there was a unnamed player who did it right always but long time ago > (quoting Emil Wipperich and Bruno Jaenicke), well, and the clam remains > cruising around in the hall for dozens of years. > ################################################################ > Am 12.03.2011 um 22:02 schrieb Jeffrey S Barker: > >> Sorry to be slow to reply; I read the daily digest. What you are asking for >> exists and is called earthquake intensity. It's defined by the Modified >> Mercalli Scale and is written as Roman numerals from I to XII. Intensity >> reflects the level of observed damage and is not directly related to the >> physics of the earthquake source. The best case in point is the Haiti >> earthquake last year. That earthquake was almost 100 times smaller than the >> Japan earthquake (magnitude 7 compared to magnitude 8.9) but resulted in >> over 222,000 deaths. This had more to do with the rampant poverty and >> corruption in Haiti than it did with the location or size of the earthquake. >> >> Now, how can we make this horn related? Perhaps we could start a thread on >> a scale for the quality of musical sound emanating from an instrument. >> Would this be a quantitative measure of the sound production of the >> instrument, or a qualitative judgment by a listener in the audience? And >> how does one account for the quality, or lack thereof, of the player and the >> instrument? >> >> Jeff >> _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
