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Author: mmatisoff 
Date:   2016-09-15 21:17

Here's one you may not have heard before. I am a honey bee researcher at Kentucky State University. I am writing a grant to study the effects of music on honey bee behavior. I am looking in particular for music that is based on a county or origin, i.e., Chinese and Indian tonal music, African and Latin rhythms, blues, jazz, classical, and rock, etc.

Can you suggest other musical "forms" that might work in this study. Insects don't have ears, but they can detect sounds from low to high pitch. Queens even "pipe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYecvVhkpKI.

Listen for the high pitched sound that is used by virgin queens to communicate where she is in relation to other virgin queen (only one queen to a hive)

Thx

Marty

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 Re: Ideas
Author: Philip Caron 
Date:   2016-09-15 21:31

Scottish bagpiping. Australian didgeridoo. Drum kit solos. White noise?

I would rather imagine that the sonic wave forms particular to specific sound generators (and combinations) would affect bees more than any musical idiom would. Have prior studies been done in this general area of inquiry?

Hopefully you complete your study before Monsanto et all finish the honey bees off for good.

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 Re: Ideas
Author: johng 2017
Date:   2016-09-15 21:42

I did a series of arrangements called Buggy Delights that featured music written about grass hoppers, crickets, bees, fire flies, and bumble bees, but as fun as the music is, it probably won't help your study.

John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com

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 Re: Ideas
Author: mmatisoff 
Date:   2016-09-15 21:50

It might. You gave me another idea. How does the "music" of other insect affect their behavior. Cudos.

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 Re: Ideas
Author: mmatisoff 
Date:   2016-09-15 21:53

Only study out there was some guy who create an "insect orchestra." Great ideas though. Digeridoo and, of course, bagpipes. Cows react to to jazz and classical music. Goat hate country. A study was recently completed by pounding on the top of the hive cover. Bees react to different sounds. I'm just curious to see which sounds they respond to. And, your, right. I have to do it before Monsanto and Dow Chemicals does them in. Thanks for the thoughts.

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 Re: Ideas
Author: derf5585 
Date:   2016-09-15 22:47

Ah Bees and Clarinets

Playing A Clarinet Covered In Bees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddp8_5tXOhU

fsbsde@yahoo.com

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 Re: Ideas
Author: kdk 
Date:   2016-09-15 23:51

Not exactly what you're asking for, but it might be interesting to know how electronically produced mood music affects bees. I just spent an hour on a massage table with a steady stream of it playing in the background and it certainly calms me. :)

Karl

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 Re: Ideas
Author: Tony F 
Date:   2016-09-16 00:42

I never realised that goats have such refined taste. I have a new respect for them!

Tony F.

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 Re: Ideas
Author: Katrina 
Date:   2016-09-16 00:48

Bulgarian and/or Macedonian gaida (bagpipe) playing. Or their end-blown flutes (called kaval). Bulgarian and Macedonian kavals are different from each other in terms of wood type, but are played similarly.

Bulgarian gaida:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztxgNbxEK-w

Bulgarian kaba gaida (lower, drones, bigger sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOkNCu9Zbs

Macedonian gaida:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1tinvq7cY

Bulgarian kaval (this one also has the gadulka, a 3-string fiddle which also has 10 sympathetic strings!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4rbYIOjP9o

Macedonian kaval:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OsgFrrFE7k


****Also, in Romania, some musicians blow on a walnut leaf to make tunes. :)

Leaf blowing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihBad9HkUvs&feature=youtu.be

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 Re: Ideas
Author: derf5585 
Date:   2016-09-16 02:06

Found some other less known instruments

Members Instrument
Figrin D'an Kloo Horn
Nalan Cheel Bandfill
Tedn Dahai Fanfar
Doikk Na'ts Doremian Beshniquel (or Fizz)
Ickabel G'ont Fanfar
Tech Mo'r Ommni Box
Lirin Car'n Kloo Horn (Backup)

fsbsde@yahoo.com

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 Re: Ideas
Author: Matt74 
Date:   2016-09-16 08:23

That video is really cool. I didn't know that.

If bees react, they would react to music sharing the same characteristics, regardless of the culture. They might react more to the music of certain cultures more than others, because the music of certain cultures emphasize those qualities more than others. I would expect though that you could find similar music from different music that would affect them the same way.

Based on what I heard, I imagine they might react to bowed string music. Chinese music has a lot of sounds similar to the video, especially the Erhu.

https://youtu.be/Fz1YMjLwExE

https://youtu.be/tu5XohUR3Pg

https://youtu.be/1GqVXBIqeT4

However, if the bees react because it sounds like a bee, they might not be reacting to it as music. I might just sit down with my horn and start playing stuff: quiet, loud, chords, scales, sweet, exciting, etc. My guess is that, like people, beautiful calm music would calm them, and angry dissonant music would excite them. There have been a lot of studies (so I have heard) comparing heavy metal and Mozart on different animals, for example.

- Matthew Simington


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 Re: Ideas
Author: Bob Bernardo 
Date:   2016-09-19 13:09

Call this guy? Someone playing the clarinet with bees on him! lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddp8_5tXOhU


Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces


Yamaha Artist 2015




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