Re: [Tools-discuss] [108attendees] Introducing the Meetecho Virtual Hum tool

Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> Thu, 30 July 2020 14:24 UTC

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> On 31/07/2020, at 2:07 AM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 30 Jul, 2020, at 12:24 am, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
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>> P.S.: i already fail talking italian at starbucks to order the right size drink,
>> i am not sure i would ever figure out the meaning of the different  italian volume levels.
> 
> Those are all familiar to me as a trained musician; traditional music scoring uses Italian terms quite extensively.  The only one that isn't very common in music is "niente", whose meaning is obvious from context as "silence".

i think niente is slightly more nuanced than that - soft sound that fades away.  Hence the use of niente for a hum where just two people hum softly or one person hums loudly, as well as a silent hum.

Jay

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