Subject: Re: Five string bass From: Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:03:03 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Braun Neuroscience of Music S-671 95 Klässbol Sweden web site: http://w1.570.telia.com/~u57011259/index.htm