A Preliminary Investigation into the Effect of Bell Cover and Filter on Pitch of Wind Instruments

Autor/inn/en	Emge, Jeffrey; Smith, Nathan
Titel	A Preliminary Investigation into the Effect of Bell Cover and Filter on Pitch of Wind Instruments
Quelle	In: Texas Music Education Research, (2022), S.3-14 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2379-9005
Schlagwörter	Music Education; Musical Instruments; COVID-19; Pandemics; Disease Control; Communicable Diseases; Music Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Musikinstrument; Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Musiktheorie
Abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic has caused adverse effects on instrumental music teaching and concerts, including those involving wind instruments. Many schools now use bell covers and air filters during rehearsals and performances to help prevent aerosol transmission of disease. This study sought to examine if the use of these bell covers and filters might have an effect on mean instrument pitch. A sample of pitches in the low, middle, and high tessitura of each wind instrument were collected in three groups: no treatment, bell cover only, and bell cover with air filter. The data was then entered into the analytical software package "R." T-tests and Analysis of Variance were run on the data to compare the three groups. Additional comparisons of mean pitch deviation were also made as to instrument family (brass/woodwind) and note (low tessitura to high). The analysis showed that when using both bell cover and filter, there is a small degree of sharpness when compared to performing with no treatment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01