VL--IV "Not exactly a UFO"....
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 16:09:20 CST 2009
> Great. Now I have to call in a horn player to confuse everything.
>
Naturally. You mean a French horn player who plays in that wacky F clef?
Here's the B flat seed article for that thread I linked to a minute ago:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7442915
inter alia:
One of their promos described a trip that Glenway Fripp took up a staircase.
Mr. Fripp, a piano tuner by trade, was humming in B flat while
climbing the stairs at his dad's office building, when he noticed that
his hum had somehow escaped him and was hanging, resonating without
him, on the staircase landing. He couldn't quite explain what was
happening; only that his hum (and it was definitely his hum, no one
else's) had gone off without him.
If you listen to the broadcast, you can hear this for yourself. Viki
Merrick recorded it. Glenway has no idea why B flat had this
particular property on that particular staircase. He suspects that the
walls were porous and may even contain cavities that are very B-flat
friendly. That's all he knows. But the truth is, he doesn't have an
explanation.
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