[Dixielandjazz] Correct Pitch +The funniest thing I ever experienced about pitch

[Allan Brown]

Last week I decided to watch my first ever Star Trek movie. I think it's the latest and features a back story about Spock quite near the beginning. The first few minutes were fine but I was soon called away and when I returned to resume the movie I must have accidentally nudged the DVD player into some kind of fast forward/ double speed function. However, this occurred at exactly the point Spock's back story begun and as it was set on some kind of Vulcan planet (forgive my Star Trek ignorance), with a cast of Vulcans I assumed their strange movements and very fast manner of speaking was a Vulcan trait and sat watching but understanding nothing for a good ten minutes before I realised what was going on! Having watched a few more minutes at normal speed I decided it was probably better watched at light speed and abandoned it. 

All the best,

Allan Brown


On 27 Dec 2010, at 20:37, <alevy at alevy.com> <alevy at alevy.com> wrote:

> The year 1951. The place Manhattan School Of
> Music. The teacher Prof. Howard Murphy.
> Dr. Murphy was play a new Lp recording
> to expose the class to a Mozart Symphony. 
> He had the score and was turning pages at an
> extremely rapid rate. After one movement he ran
> to the piano and played a note exclaiming
> "that's in the wrong key."
> No one said a word. Then Dr. Murphy discovered
> that the turntable had a switch to change speeds.
> It was set at 78 rpm.
> True story! I was there.
> Happy New Year to all,
> Al
> Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Teacher and Music Prep.
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