source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:20:05 -0800 Subject: waking up to music From: "Adam B. Silverman" What a strange occurrence! This morning I awoke to the sound of construction (alas, not an unusual circumstance on my street)--the sound of two unrecognizable motorized machines with large tubes extending down the street and into a drainage-hole. The machines each sounded like a leaf blower, but they togethe emitted a strong overtone blast, not unlike the lowest bagpipe ever made. A low G featuring partials 1 and 3 (with a faint 5) resounded and the pitch imperceptibly crept upwards for about 5 minutes to a C fundamental, and now it has gone back down to G, featuring partials 1:5:7, with 3 weakened. It is an odd delight, this gasoline-powered hurdy-gurdy. _________________ Adam B. Silverman 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 782-1765 abs22@pantheon.yale.edu Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:11 METZ Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01345; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:11:59 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01343 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA15073; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 07:10:27 -0800 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 07:10:27 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu