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To: NicknamedBob; sionnsar; ThomasThomas; Tax-chick; xsmommy; secret garden; Texan5; Gabz; tioga; ...
What is this “music” of which you speak?

Now, I must confess I can't sympathize, or admire, anybody who thinks they hear “music” because I never have.

See, when I hear bands, chori, orchestras, or other noise making units, I hear a bunch of individual specific sounds. Granted they (usually) vary in loudness or softness, frequency (the tone (notes ?) go up and down, clarity (sometimes “fuzzy:” sometimes clear, but always - every time - I hear every single individual sound from everything that is making noise.

I described it one time to our church choir director, and he thought Iwas nuts - then he sympathized with me for some reason. Now, if you can get a me a good plot of every notes and noise, I think i can appreciate the volume and frequency changes (that's what a tone is, right ?) but it really is easier to see a plot of music than it is to hear it squeak and moan and thrumb every time.......

The tuba is making a “blaat” sound, the flute making a tweet” sound, the guitar doing a “thrumb, thrumb, thrumb, sound - they're usually fuzzy. Drums make a bang, clash(from the cymbals - unless he drops his banger onthing else), a clump, bong, bing, rat-tata-tat, etc......

Trombones are usually more longer and blended noises - because they move the rod in and our continuously.

Worse are V noisemakers. Violins screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccchhhh. Violo’s screeeeeeeeeach too - but they are lower in frequeny. And there aren't as many of them. Voice state words. Some words are longer than others.. Some are higher frequency, but they are always words.

Bagpipes, on the other hand, make more noise than the rest with longer screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeches, and so drown them out so we can't hear the others.

722 posted on 11/01/2009 1:06:46 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

You’d make a terrific Tom Terrific.


723 posted on 11/01/2009 1:17:05 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Obam Government says, "Get used to being poor." / America responds, "Ain't gonna happen.")
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Bagpipes are loader because they have drones to help them.


729 posted on 11/01/2009 2:37:11 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't have time to Procrastinate)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; Darksheare

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730 posted on 11/01/2009 2:39:05 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't have time to Procrastinate)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The way you hear music is the way I taste food. It’s why I’m so picky.


744 posted on 11/01/2009 4:19:11 PM PST by secret garden (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

You have a form of Synesthesia.
Even better is when you can describe the color of the sound.


748 posted on 11/01/2009 4:27:08 PM PST by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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