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In Reply to: RE: 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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As I remember Fulton's chart, all trumpets would be assigned the same color so it was not the particular tone defined by an individual musician, but of the basic instrument.
Apparently in his mind that was utilized as a test for tonal accuracy, when he visualized a known recording of a trumpet as the "trumpet color" then he knew the speaker (or whatever component) appeared to be accurate.
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
His book Musicophilia describes this phonomena. There is a term to describe this often noted effect. IIRC Debussy had this.
In the video put out by the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Music from Within (PBS) one of the members describes her life with this ability (she paints too).
Synesthesia. Look it up...
-RW-
On the tip of my tongue but couldn't spit it out..........
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