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A possible addition to your experiment might be to do a "non blind" test, allowing the players to see and know which guitars are being played (or they are playing) and see how their scores compare to the "blind" playing tests. It might show how our perceptions are coloured by th...

Good luck with the test. Regarding the methodology for the testing: I don't see why the dark room and goggles are necessary. Cover the back and sides with paper or thin, colored plastic. In a future experiment the simple expedient lacquering them all the same color would solve that from the beginni...

Hi Trevor, thanks for your comments, I had come across your POMA paper a while ago, and it's great to see people like you and Alan who have researched and published on the topic on this forum. As I said, criticism is welcome, I will actually be making a list of the issues that have been raised on th...

But you can't produce evidence of it being or not being a confounder unless you test to control for everything but that (impossible I know). If it is present in an experiment to test another variable, you will never be able to say definitively that it does or does not influence your results. You ha...

All of the Catgut Journals are archived, and available on line as .pdf files. I don't have the URL for that, but it should be available through the Violin Society of America, which took over the Catgut Society in 2004. If memory serves, the archive is at Stanford University, and you could try there...

Hi guys, first of all, thank you to all of you who have taken the tests, and have commented on the thread. Criticism is welcome, of course I appreciate if the tone of the discussion is civilized (it's been civilized on this forum, but less so on other forums). These discussions are indeed similar to...

They're trying to build guitars "exactly" the same except for the back and sides, but not enough budget to have a big enough sample of each species used to get a really good idea of what each wood offers. I get that. But why try to build them? Why not just borrow a big enough sample numbe...

you would probably want some automated method to strum and finger chords too. So you take the human element out of that as well. that's a possible way to run the test, but we wanted a more realistic setting (can guitar players hear the differences between guitars when a song is being played?). The ...

I suspect that if a synthetic top material was used then idiosyncrasies of different tops would be essentially removed. Perhaps not sounding entirely 'normal' acoustically, however. nice idea, but yeah I guess it wouldn't sound really like a normal acoustic guitar A possible control for the experim...

Some further info on the construction of the guitars is available here: http://www.fyldeguitars.com/news0914.html the guitars were carefully built to be as similar as possible except for the back and sides wood. This doesn't mean that they're identical, but I think that residual differences are unli...

As part of an ongoing study on the preferences of guitar players for different woods used for the back and side plates of guitars we’re conducting two online tests. The tests, designed by the hearing lab at Lancaster University, are available here: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/hearing/the-guitar-exp...