Posted on 06/10/2019 7:51:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains,"
To test this, the researchers played a series of harmonic sounds, or tones, to healthy volunteers and monkeys. Meanwhile, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to monitor brain activity in response to the sounds. The researchers also monitored brain activity in response to sounds of toneless noises that were designed to match the frequency levels of each tone played.
"We found that human and monkey brains had very similar responses to sounds in any given frequency range. It's when we added tonal structure to the sounds that some of these same regions of the human brain became more responsive,"
"This finding suggests that speech and music may have fundamentally changed the way our brain processes pitch,"
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Oh....
Just wait till you plod through a thread on A=432 vs A=440.
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My HS band director used to tune us to A=442.
For a little brighter sound he said.
Just wait till you plod through a thread on A=432 vs A=440.
I wear a big old pair of Phonak Bolero Q’s.
I only hear what they send over to my ear molds.
My audiologist says it is like a different language.
And why are many musicians small? I can’t help think of AC/DC, Van Halen, Mick Jagger, etc. I have a theory. Many small males in a pre-historic tribe would not be sent to hunt with the men. Instead they were told to stay home and listen to hear if there were any sounds indicating a threat to the village. These people passed their smallness and good hearing to future generations so that eventually many people who were musicians were also small.
Now, I don’t know if this is true. But I could appear to be true.
That’s a touching home page.
I dunno. Ya just picture a guy with the FR name DUMBGRUNT carrying around a Louisville slugger and having trouble counting to 10 :).
You are OBVIOUSLY VERY FAR from that biased and misinformed interpretation on my part!!
It would be like you thinking I always wear black and have a cross on, and am a sports car driving thug with fuzzy dice and Rosary Beads hanging from the car mirror, with uncles that were/are mobsters and who indeed DOES have a baseball bat (among other accouterments) in my car and who says “forget about it” all the time just because I’m Italian and live on Staten Island.
Well, come to think of it... :)
Good GOD...those flashing neon lights; it's enough to give one nightmares!
dissidence
>>>>>
dissonance?
Yes, sorry...don’t know HOW I managed to do that! I thought “dissonance”, but typed dissidence. :-(
Daily, Nightly--The Monkees (1967)
Been there....
Gershwin is one of my favorites.
He and a collaborator wrote “Swanee” on coffee-shop napkins in 15 minutes.
Franz Liszt was 6’4”
Rachmaninoff was 6”3”
The great Russian bass Chaliapin was 6’6”
Thanks for catching my abominable “automatic writing” error and being so thoughtful and kind about it!
Now with my hearing shot, it is all just sounds, faint.
Long ago the VA told me aids would be of no use to me, they simply increased the volume.
About twenty years ago a physician friend of my wife said try again, there have been major advances with computerization.
I had (PAST TENSE)the famous gold plated insurance.
Major improvement and better with each replacement.
My gold plated insurance that I paid $20k a year, for many years to stay paid in full forever... Was destroyed by 0bamacare. But now I can get a sex change!!!
My buddies say the VA will cover them? I was wounded in the head 1969.
The hard part is finding a trustworthy audiologist.
Many are like used car salesmen, not all.
My audiologist says it affects balance too!
Helen Keller said deafness was the worst of the lot, and she would know.
With speech recognition, noise canceling, auto voice zoom...
Go for it!
If you mean SWANEE RIVER...that predates Gershwin by life times and was written by Stephen Foster, who was America’s real first song writer and lyricist.
Another thing I had to look up :)
Great song. Thick blackface :)
It’s obviously not worn as an insult. But almost all of the comments underneath on youtube took it as such. Mostly snowflakes.
Al Jolson performing it in his 50s. Looks and sounds great.
Doesn’t matter if one is a fan of MUCH different types of music. Talent is talent.
And in a lot of cases, a lot more talent is shown than today.
That being said, I won’t even MENTION my favorite band as they are so out of place in this conversation!!
I did live in Bloomingdale Il for some years and ALL my neighbors were Italian.
Good people.
I’m still not sold on the burying the fig trees for the winter thing?
Lot of work.
Yeah, the everything is louder with aids. So much so that it can be painful in a restaurant when I wear them to hear the wife and waiter.
They keep saying to wear them more often to learn to hear again, but that darn things make my ears itch after a while.
The hearing aid places are like used car salesmen. Everyone has the latest and greatest. Had one aid go dead, the dealer says it cannot be fixed, have to spend several k for new ones. Find a place online that fixes them for a couple hundred bucks.
Balance, ruined my right inner ear scuba diving so my balance is really hosed. Hard to figure how hearing has anything to do with that unless inner ear damage which an aid will not fix.
If I could really pick out voices from the crashing noise, a new pair might be interesting. Would need to try the VA as my self paid ins does not cover. Doubt the VA has the good stuff.
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