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Blue Whales Are Better in Tune than We Are

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-08-04 16:51

Blue whales coordinate their songs at 16.02 Hz and keep the pitch within 0.5% of that figure.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802141907.htm

Wish I could be that accurate.

Ken Shaw

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Re: Blue Whales Are Better in Tune than We Are

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-08-04 17:27

16.02 Hz is an interesting number. 16 Hz is the lowest C (at 440 pitch) on a pipe organ with a 32-foot bass stop. Most adults over 30 can only hear the fundamental tone of a bass down to about 20 Hz, so the lowest notes in a 32-foot rank (fairly common) or a 64-foot rank (rare) are mostly for rumble-rama in theaters, more flippantly known as Voice of God stops in the churches.

(Only two organs in the world have 64-foot speaking ranks: the Sydney Concert Hall in Australia and Constitution Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The one in Atlantic City, designed by an amateur, has never really worked. All the other ranks advertised as 64-footers are resultants, acoustic effects produced by building a 32-foot speaking stop and then lining up a stop of quints so that the mouths of the quints speak into the mouths on the 32-foot stop.)

I don't think a contra-bass clarinet would impress a whale too much....

Lelia
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Re: Blue Whales Are Better in Tune than We Are

Author: Tobin
Date: 2010-08-04 18:55

"I don't think a contra-bass clarinet would impress a whale too much...."

It would just sound like a gnat buzzing in it's...blowhole?

James

Gnothi Seauton

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Re: Blue Whales Are Better in Tune than We Are

Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2010-08-06 13:37

>>"The study's results are consistent with recent research suggesting that blue whales across the world have decreased their pitch over the last few decades. "We found the frequency of the B call to be 16 Hz in 2001, which fits well with the downward trending curve that has been observed in previous research.""

Not only do they sense pitch better than we humans, but unlike us they are heading in the opposite direction in overall pitch. Wow, no more stuggles bringing a cold A clarinet up to the orchestra's high pitch in the 2nd movement of the Pines of Rome!

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

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