On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:59 am, dgm4 wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > >French Horn. Its bore is as long as a tuba's. I have played horn before, > > and there is a definite, barely detectable delay between initiation of > > the note and the perception of the note (which is both by ear and by hand > > in the case of the horn). The long bore is one reason the horn's attack > > is quite mellow.
> To say nothing of pipe organs, where the latency can be nearly half a > second (!) in a large church. Yeah, but organists are trained to compensate for that. That's one reason there are so many manuals. But it does make the music interesting to play. I know a concert organist who is rather accomplished; I didn't even think about his techniques when I mentioned horn. When one stop is half a second removed from another, odd and interesting effects can be produced by one who know the instrument and the acoustics of the venue well enough. But I think most musicians don't want to have to deal with the pipe organ techniques. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
