So... if you flatten the higher-pitched male, you'd narrow the fifth, right? And obviously it would follow that flattening the lower-pitched female, you'd expand it. AnOnAnOn On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> wrote: > I still love to smash them. > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Amadeus Piano <amadeuspiano at comcast.net>wrote: > >> 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 / Science and Song<http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/> >> >> >> >> Very interesting. Well worth watching. Goes into music and evolution, >> the physics of sound, and music and the brain, etc. >> >> >> >> Enjoy, Gary >> > > > > -- > Ryan Sowers, RPT > Puget Sound Chapter > Olympia, WA > www.pianova.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090724/f2f1d1ae/attachment.htm>
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