Hey, you might!

Klosé's Celebrated Method for the Clarinet says something like, "The most important thing for an instrumentalist is smoothness", and that advice is good almost 150 years later.

And smoothness means a real relationship to time.

I'm not playing much recently, but I could at my peak make people sit up and pay attention simply by playing a scale, because I had that smoothness down. (Not that this got me anywhere really, but it was fun.)

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If you were interested in psychoacoustics, the two people to start with are Haas and Helmholtz.

Have a good one!