I hear it too. There is a vibration that tends to disappear in a fraction of a second, so that long notes become clear quickly, but the staccato notes stop very soon after the interfering vibration diminishes, so most of the note is doubled. I copied some sound samples to Audacity to look at them. What (I think) I see is that the notes vary as to amount of interference, all of the notes have a strong secondary harmonic, but the notes with the most audible vibration have the highest-amplitude secondary harmonic, which diminishes with time and disproportionally rapidly with the decreasing max volume of the release.
David G On 7/8/2011 1:33 PM, valerie wells wrote: > I didn't heat what you heard, Steve. I thought it sounded clear, clean& > solid. Maybe you're hearing what you expect to hear based upon a > preconceived idea????? > -- Valerie Wells The Balanced Embouchure Method > http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/ ???? > I'm not sure I really like that quality.? What I'm hearing is, an > unstable beginning of each note, ramping up to a vowel sound and then > the vowel sound gets unstable at the end of each note.? In slow > motion, kind of a dtwaaaaoooud (very Arabic, that), but of course all > happening very quickly.? Maybe it's the tongue moving up to stop the > note that changes the vowel towards the end of the note?? Somehow > though, it does seem to leave the beginning of the next note > unstable.? ??? Some advice I heard and liked was that if the note > sounds beautiful and stable at the very end, the beginning of the next > note will be easy, clear and stable.? I think that's because it means > the air will be stable and absolutely ready for the beginning of the > next note. ??? Anyway, sorry I'm not trying to harsh out on you!, just > trying to analyze what I'm hearing.? - Steve Mumford _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
