"Jenn" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Can you differentiate between a cor Anglais and an oboe, or an alto and
tenor saxophone or an Eb and Bb clarinet, a trumpet/cornet/flugel horn,
playing in the same range, Arny?

Can you, Iain?

The prof at the Tonmeister exam was satisfied that I could:-)

In a studio music environment one gets a great deal of practice,
and the chance to sit in front of orchestral instruments listening
carefully to their sound in each register. The clarinet passing
from chalumeau to clarino is a good place to start.

If you know how they sound and the source and gear are minimally decent,
it's quite easy.

It is important to ensure that the instruments being compared are
playing in common (overlapping) registers. For musicians with
a formal musical training used to listening to musical instruments
in a careful and analytical way it is, as Jenn says, not too difficult.

But wasn't it Arny who posted a snip of a synthesised or sampled
French horn and claimed it was the real thing? Hence my odds of
a pound to a penny against his being able to differentiate in say
eight out of ten real examples, between the cor Anglais and the oboe.

Iain