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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 10 September 2003 09:23 AM
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Read all about it: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/10/blackhole.music.reut/index.html [This message was edited by Jim Cohen on 10 September 2003 at 09:24 AM.] |
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Mike Baxter Member From: Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
posted 10 September 2003 09:40 AM
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You've made A# observation  -- wondered what that rumbling was in the pit of my stomach. Mike |
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Ron Page Member From: Cincinnati, OH USA |
posted 10 September 2003 09:53 AM
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This could be just the thing my wife's been looking for. A set of steel guitar strings that can be tuned, or not tuned, to less than audible frequency would certainly be of interest to her. ------------------ |
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Gerald Ross Member From: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
posted 10 September 2003 09:54 AM
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Horn players rejoice! The real question is can the Peterson strobe tuner handle it? ------------------ |
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Greg Vincent Member From: Los Angeles, CA USA |
posted 10 September 2003 10:26 AM
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"Black Hole sang bass --Mamma sang tenor..." |
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Reece Anderson Member From: Keller Texas USA |
posted 10 September 2003 10:29 AM
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Jim.....I alredy node it, wich iz Y I toun mi getar 2 Bb. |
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Ernie Renn Member From: Brainerd, Minnesota USA |
posted 10 September 2003 10:49 AM
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The Universe may be tuned to Bb, but is that ET (equal temperament) or JI (just intonation)? And does it have pedals? If so, what do they do? (57 octaves below middle C? Holy cow... Good thing it's intensity is comparable to human speech and it's 250 million light-years from Earth. Whew!) ------------------ [This message was edited by Ernie Renn on 10 September 2003 at 10:51 AM.] |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 10 September 2003 11:01 AM
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Ernie, we're talkin' outer space here, so you just know it's got to be "ET".  |
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Chris Forbes Member From: Beltsville, MD, USA |
posted 10 September 2003 11:38 AM
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Ernest Tubb? |
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Jon Light Member From: Brooklyn, NY |
posted 10 September 2003 12:26 PM
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My .68 won't get there. Should I try a .72? |
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Rick Schmidt Member From: Carlsbad, CA. USA |
posted 10 September 2003 02:53 PM
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That confirms it! "E" has finally been revealed as the "Devil's Tritone" as I've always suspected. |
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Bob Mainwaring Member From: Qualicum Beach Vancouver Island B.C. Canada |
posted 10 September 2003 03:20 PM
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Weird eh?? Who knows what if any other keys are out there for someone to find or listen to? Light years,trillion miles etc etc..... There has to be an end to it....or where would it all go to?? If there was an end - what would be on the other side?? The mind boggles at all the rhetoric that we think of abnormal.........what else is there?  Bob Mainwaring. Z.Bs. and other weird things. ------------------ |
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Colm Chomicky Member From: Prairie Village, Kansas, USA |
posted 10 September 2003 07:11 PM
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But do black holes sound better than white holes  But then, I suppose, both give a stellar performance. |
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Mike Ihde Member From: Boston, MA |
posted 10 September 2003 08:58 PM
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They both produce "Cosmic gas" |
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David Wright Member From: Modesto .Ca USA. |
posted 10 September 2003 10:10 PM
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I knew I was right when I started with Bb, now the world knows..I was Wright!!!!!! ------------------ Peavey-2000-PX-300 [This message was edited by David Wright on 10 September 2003 at 10:11 PM.] |
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Rick McDuffie Member From: Smithfield, North Carolina, USA |
posted 11 September 2003 03:57 AM
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I'm a trombone player, so I'm not surprised to learn this  |
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George Kimery Member From: Limestone, TN, USA |
posted 11 September 2003 04:26 AM
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Several years ago, I saw a TV show where they had people on it that claimed they could hear a low hum that sounded like it was coming out of the ground. Only a few people were hearing it. They thought it was some kind of secret government project or something. Is it possible, this is what they were hearing? HUM!!! |
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Glenn Suchan Member From: Austin, Texas |
posted 11 September 2003 09:08 AM
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I know this may be pushing the limits of "steel guitar" subject matter, but you might enjoy the following comparisons: To contemplate the magintude of a Black Hole emitting a Bb tone 57 octaves below middle C consider the following: Bb below middle C: Bb 3 octaves below middle C (human hearing threshold): Bb at JUST 10 octaves below middle C: Now, lets contemplate the energy required to generate this sound: A normal PA system requires hundreds to thousands of watts to produce clear tones at 20 - 40 Hz (the human threshold). Imagine the energy at 10 octaves below middle C. To contemplate Bb 57 octaves below middle C would undoubtably increase all of these figures by an order of quite a few magnitudes! Quite possibly, nothing short of the energy of a Black Hole could produce an audio frequency at 57 octaves below middle C. Not only that, the wavelength would be so long, it may have cycled only few times in the life of the universe!!! Hmmm! I wonder how it would sound through my Evans amplifier.... Keep on pickin'! |
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ed packard Member From: Show Low AZ |
posted 11 September 2003 09:27 AM
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I remember hearing/reading somewhere that the mating croaks of an alligator are also Bb, ..does that sound like a croc? |
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Randy Pettit Member From: Van Alstyne, Texas USA |
posted 11 September 2003 09:32 AM
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If Jeff "Skunk" Baxter can go to work for the Dept. of Defense, maybe we should send Reece Anderson to NASA! |
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Buck Grantham Member From: Denham Springs, LA. USA |
posted 11 September 2003 10:15 AM
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Jim,, Go practice on your guitar. This is way too deep for me. |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 11 September 2003 11:40 AM
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quote:Maybe THAT's what the "Expand" switch is for! I always wondered about that... |
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