Kettle drum timbre shifts measurably with listener distance

Evidence

In other words, an audience some distance away should hear a different mix of the partials than the percussionist does. The kettle drum experiment should be redone and measurements made some considerable distance away, in a performance space. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 1417

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: why live recordings made from the stage never match what the audience hears — near-field artifacts in music production and acoustic measurements.