[pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

[Amadeus Piano]

What a great idea!

I'm thinking of adding a step to my tuning procedure and carrying a couple
of jars of mosquitoes with me to check my fifths.

One jar for a female and another full of males. (since I'll have to keep
flattening the males to get the interval just right).

Gary 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of paul bruesch
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:54 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

 

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 <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/>  Instinct / 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 




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

 

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