[pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

Ryan Sowers tunerryan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 01:17:06 MDT 2009


That's so bad. [?]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>


-- 
Ryan Sowers, RPT
Puget Sound Chapter
Olympia, WA
www.pianova.net
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