The Feel of Voice

[Jonathan Finger]

Sarah:
Sennheiser and Sony have both had noise canceling headphones for years.
They're great!  Unfortunately, they don't get rid of all ambient noise.
Only a certain frequency range.  I have a pair of Sony noise canceling
headphones, and absolutely love them.  Great if you travel at all. You
put them on in a plane, and instantly the growl of the engine
disappears.  Don't know how useful they'd be for our experiment though,
as they do let quite a bit of sound through in the frequencies that we'd
be listening to.


Jonathan Finger RPT



-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Sarah Fox
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:25 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: The Feel of Voice

Hi Ric,

> ..... For
> example the testing to see whether a ear muffed person can identify
hardness
> or not by feel alone.

FAIW, Bose has come out with some noise cancelling headsets.  I don't
know
how well they work or how much they cost, but I think this is the first
time
this technology is available on the consumer market.

It would be particularly interesting to play around with these headsets
to
ask other questions about sound/experience relationships.  Not only do
the
headsets electronically cancel external sounds/noises, but they are
also, of
course, *headsets* in the more conventional sense.  So what would happen
if
the sound from the piano were bandpass filtered to mimic different
hammer
hardnesses and were fed to the pianist through the headsets.  The
effect????
Here's another interesting one:  What if miniscule audio delays were
introduced?  What would be the effect on the pianist's perception of the
crispness of the action???  (There might not be any effect, which would
be
interesting in itself.)

Just throwing out ideas...

Peace,
Sarah

PS Does anyone get my posts?  Nobody ever responds to them, and I'm
starting
to wonder if I'm being shunned for some reason.


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