[pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

[Jim Busby]

Isn't that that new "West Nile" tuning?

JB
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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Amadeus Piano [amadeuspiano at comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:04 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://www.pianova.net>

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