Unless you are a 'cellist. When my 4 year old daughter started playing she was flummoxed by the notion that playing lower pitch meant rising on the fingerboard and vice versa.
- jonathan
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Jonathan Berger
The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music
Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Stanford University
http://jonathanberger.netOn 2019-03-12 04:56, Axel Roebel wrote:
Hello On 11/03/19 13:01, Peter Lennox wrote:But I'm not sure that it's as intuitive to equate higher pitch= greater quantity. I mean, I can grasp it visually (I suppose one could try for an evolutionary argument – a higher pile= a greater quantity, or some such).I am all for the evolutionary argument! In fact if you see this from a physical perspective (us living in a world) then larger bodies make lower sounds. So the relation high = large cannot be linked to a predominant world experience (besides for musicians - see Neuhoff 2002 (:-) - but also for musicians a high note is produced by a smaller instrument, so it depends on the context the person uses to interpret the data). For visual presentations it seems hard to find situations where you need to look up for something smaller. Best Axel