Re: Five string bass

[Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Patterson wrote:

> Ole Kühl wrote:
>
> > Possibly, musicians with their highly trained ears are simply capable of
> > hearing more than non-musicians?
> It is unlikely that it is the ears that are trained. It is more likely to
> be the brain, ....

That's right. But then, all ear training is in fact brain training. There is
nothing in the ear proper than can improve upon training.


> But to begin with we need to understand just what it is that trained
> musicians can do with low notes that the rest of us can't.

It's timbre learning. Automatic association of timbre and chroma, the latter
being derived from the summation of octave-spaced partials, results in a
secure "secondary" pitch perception.

An analogy is chord identification. Highly trained musicians can identify
chord categories from the timbre of a chord.

Martin

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