Lamar Owen wrote:

>On Thursday 13 June 2002 09:29 am, Charlieb wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Steve Harris wrote:
>>
>>>MAS works over LANs, and should be capable of 10ms latency, which isn't
>>>very low by BTW. You certainly can't play an instrument with 10ms
>>>latency.
>>>
>
>>Nonsense! What about tubas ?
>>I admit a guitar would feel pretty awful w/ 10 ms latency, an oboe or
>>trumpet only fells a little "slow to speak", and a  Tuba , well, that
>>would be an exceptionally responsive low brass...
>>
>
>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.
-dgm


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