[pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

[Amadeus Piano]

I heard this on the radio a while back and thought you all might find it
interesting.

If the male mosquito can't modulate the frequency of his beating wings to
what's close to a perfect fifth combined with the female's, he's out of
luck.

Pretty neat stuff.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99133147 

(click on the "Listen Now" link to hear the program)

 

 

And I saw this documentary the other day on Netflix on demand, but it will
be playing tonight on PBS:

 

The Music Instinct <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/>  / Science and
Song

 

Very interesting.  Well worth watching.  Goes into music and evolution, the
physics of sound, and music and the brain, etc. 

 

Enjoy, Gary 

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