Ralph R. Hall [email protected] Ralph R. Hall http://www.brasshausmusic.com
Hi Jonathan West, My mailing was an attempt at being enlightened, not ridiculed; and where on earth in my message did I say words to the effect of, "I don't know, but I think it might be distance." It's great being misquoted! Of course I went to Wikepedia 'for goodness sake' but if I spent time trawling through every subject in detail that's touched upon on this list - well, I'm old enough already. May I repeat that there seems to be some difference in emphasis, even within the scientific community in the articles I've read, between the relative importance of movement and distance. And nobody has satisfactorily come up with an answer to the undoubted fact of offstage players sounding flat to maestro, players in the orchestra and audience, whether its the Long Call, a Mahler symphony or the trumpet call in Leonora 3. It's been implied that to hear this 'flatness' is to be slightly nutty, psychologically prone to hear things that aren't there - or maybe just a professional musician. The latter, I can tell you, accept the fact and tune higher in compensation and are rewarded by being booked again. My responses on this list are, I hope, designed to enlighten those who are other than professional horn players, not ridicule them. Guess what folks - I'm not a professional scientist/acoustician! Ralph R. Hall _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
