In Reply to: Hearing colors posted by M3 lover on March 18, 2015 at 12:58:52:
The concept of using color to describe sound quality is as old as the hills. Anyone who's ever played at even a beginning college level knows that. "Bright, dark, white, red, orange", etc. I've even heard some blues. ;) Other adjectives include "thin" and "fat", although they're not politically correct.
Much of this has to do with the relative balance between low overtones and upper overtones, as well as even-order versus odd-order.
As a trumpet player, I'd describe the legendary Maurice Andre's sound as "white to yellow", while I'd describe Maynard Ferguson's sound as "orange".
:)
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Follow Ups
- RE: Hearing colors - Inmate51 13:35:36 03/18/15 (4)
- Not quite the same - M3 lover 17:33:11 03/18/15 (0)
- Read Oliver Sacks - unclestu 13:45:46 03/18/15 (2)
- "There is a term to describe this often noted effect." Yep, it's called... - rlw 14:37:00 03/18/15 (1)
- Thanks - unclestu 19:00:02 03/18/15 (0)