ABSTRACT

This study explores correlations between personal preferences for musical instruments and architectural materials. Specifically, it determines whether preferences for 12 musical instruments or their instrument families may reflect a preference tendency in architectural material features pertaining to colour, quality, texture, and reflection. First, a survey gathered individual appreciations of the attributes. After carefully distinguishing the valid responses, Pearson’s correlation coefficient analysis revealed attribute preference correlations within different demographic classes, and Bonferroni correction screened the most reliable ones. The outcomes show different correlation trends across ages and genders, and once again confirm their importance in the preference correlations. Attributes related to material colour and quality reflected a higher number of correlations with musical instrument timber preferences, and thus have more potential to reflect the satisfactory attributes in another field. Several correlations were also discovered, thereby confirming the existence and potential uses of the preference correlations between musical instruments and architectural materials.

摘要

本研究探讨了个人对乐器的偏好与建筑材料之间的相关性。具体来说，它确定了对 12 种乐器或其乐器家族的偏好是否可能反映了与颜色、质量、质地和反射有关的建筑材料特征的偏好趋势。首先，一项调查收集了个人对这些属性的评价。在仔细区分有效响应后，Pearson 相关系数分析揭示了不同人口统计类别内的属性偏好相关性，Bonferroni 校正筛选出最可靠的响应。结果显示了不同年龄和性别的不同相关趋势，并再次证实了它们在偏好相关性中的重要性。与材料颜色和质量相关的属性反映出与乐器木材偏好的相关性更高，因此更有可能反映另一个领域令人满意的属性。还发现了几种相关性，从而证实了乐器和建筑材料之间偏好相关性的存在和潜在用途。