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RE: Hearing colors

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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