[Dixielandjazz] The mystery of B Flat

[Don Ingle]

Bill Gunter wrote:
> Hi listmates,
>
> I have the same experience in my enclosed and tiled bathroom shower space. 
> When I hum a gliss either up or down very quietly I hear this resonance at 
> one particular point in the gliss. I can keep it going by adding a bit of 
> hum which seems to work in sort of a sympathetic vibration with the 
> resonance of the shower.
>
> I never made any attempt to find out which note it was . . . could have been 
> Bb but without the ability of perfect pitch I'd have to get to an instrument 
> pretty quickly to verify the note.
>
> I have no idea what would make Bb a particularly unusual note - seems to me 
> that a cavity could easily contain the specific volumes, surfaces, and 
> shapes to amplify virtually any note.
>
> I also know this . . .
>
> If you go to a piano and open it up so that you can sing directly at the 
> array of strings and then depress the sustain pedal you can hear it. Simply 
> sing a single note loudly and clearly toward the strings and thing be quiet 
> and listen - you'll hear that note resonating.  Nothing spooky about it, 
> it's simply what they call a Sympathetic Vibration. Once you start it the 
> note will continue to resonate and slowly die away all by itself.
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Bill "mmmmmmmmmmmm" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
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> Mein herr Gunter. You can test your theory easily eouoigh, given you examples. Combinethem. Drag your piano into t he bathroom and gliss a way. 
>   
Science could be made beyond determining whether the waters inthe John 
circle lef tto right on the flush.
The world awaits your testresults. MAy you be flsuhed with success.
Don (anyone who belives in Global Warming was not in North Michigna this 
year) Ingle