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Author: hans
Date: 2004-03-06 01:21
Almost every home contains a certain inanimate item which emits a concert "F". It is not a musical instrument.
What is the item?
Hans
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Author: Bob Schwab
Date: 2004-03-06 02:53
When I've had too much chili the night before. Oh wait. You wrote inanimate didn't you. Never mind.
Bob Schwab
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-03-06 02:54
The USA telephone dial tone is a concert F ...GBK 
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Author: Michael McC.
Date: 2004-03-06 03:03
Not sure, but the flourescent lights in our band room emit a Bb, although a little flat. And my dial tone is a concert A.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-03-06 03:31
GBK wrote:
> The USA telephone dial tone is a concert F ...GBK
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Eh? It's a dual tone - 350 + 440 Hz.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-03-06 03:41
Mark Charette said:
> It's a dual tone - 350 + 440 Hz.
I must have heard more of the "F" than the "A" ...GBK (who obviously does not have perfect pitch)
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-03-06 03:46
New question: Which of us is going to be the first person to break down and walk around the house with a tuner?
(This includes me, who once observed that the computer and the oscillating fan were a major third apart and felt the need to tell people about it)
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: hans
Date: 2004-03-06 13:56
I had not anticipated that more than one appliance might produce a concert F, for which I apologize.
According to my completely objective and unbiased tuner, the telephone dial tone is a concert F (ten cents sharp). I also played F on my piano while listening to the dial tone and came to the same conclusion: on my phone F is the predominant tone.
Congratulations to everyone who recognized which appliances emit an F.
Hans (also not blessed with perfect pitch)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-03-06 14:00
hans wrote:
> I also
> played F on my piano while listening to the dial tone and came
> to the same conclusion: on my phone F is the predominant tone.
Believe it or not, the tones can't be more than 3 db different in loudness. The predominant tone is a psychoacoustic effect.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-03-06 14:23
Congrats to all guessers, a couple of them occured to me. I was going to guess, the well-known 60/120 etc cycle hum that practically every transformer/charger/ appliance emits a bit of. I did it again!! "A preposition is a poor thing to end a sentence WITH", my grammer needs help! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-03-06 17:39
Mark, I'm just not going to wait longer for you to "pick me up" on my spelling of grammAr. My beloved Gram Mers have passed on to their reward, wish I could have known them even better, now that I'm a clarinet-playing Grand Pa. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Bnatural
Date: 2004-03-06 20:09
so i gotta ask ... how many of us read this and waked around the house with a tuner?... I did... the mircrowave was a very flat Bb ... the buzzer when the microwave stopped was an E.... and the cat (stupid thing wouldn't shut up) was a flat A .... the monitor emits a B that is close to in tune as well.... couldn't find an F... so how many of you did this last night as well?
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Author: Amy
Date: 2004-03-06 22:00
I picked up the phone and the first note I recognised was a concert A but after listening carefully there was indeed a concert F in there too. The microwave is a very sharp concert F and the beep when it's finished is a sharp concert B. The whirring of the oven is an almost perfectly in tune G#. The whirring of the fan in my computer is a slightly flat concert E.
Well, that kept me amused for a while. Now I'm going to go and see how sharp my throat Bb is today...
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