Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: Playing Live From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   Playing Live TJ Registered User Registered: 3/1/2005 posted: 3/1/2005 at 11:07:02 AM ET Members competing for the loudest sound? Is there a pyramid of instrument levels?(loudest to softest)? maintube Registered User Registered: 5/26/2004 posted: 3/1/2005 at 11:29:58 AM ET loudness is relative to what octave the instrument is playing in. Higher notes tend to be ouder than lower notes. Given this: if everyone is playing the same note. Concert f for example. Bass clar. are the softest clar flute baritone tuba trumpet/sax- tie for the loudest This my what I have found in my experience Actually percussion is the loudest, but I assumed you were refering to wind instruments. If you add strings then it goes from baas/softest to cello to viola to violin/loudest. Some people think that bigger is louder. This is not the case. higher notes acoustically penetrate the air more Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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