In case you're not confused enough about which music thread is which, let's continue the progression of shrinkage from albums to singles to notes...

If you were stuck on a desert island, but could bring a piano with 10 keys working, which keys would they be?

My list:

The bottom key (A)
C two octaves below Middle C
G an octave and a half below Middle C
D almost an octave below Middle C
G# a few notes below Middle C
Middle C
F half an octave above Middle C
F# an octave and a half above Middle C
E two-plus octaves above Middle C
The top key (C)

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If you could only take ten sounds with you to a desert island, what would they be? Describe them in terms of wavelength and frequency.

You are a silly, silly man.

Obviously you could only have keys that would allow you a complete song, and with only ten keys, it'll have to be Chopsticks or Heart and Soul let's see...

Chopsticks, you'll need from the F below middle C up to the A above it. That's exactly ten keys.

Heart and Soul, the left player will need the notes for the chords C, Am, F, G. That's F, G, A, B, C, D, E, G, taking up eight keys. Doesn't leave a helluva lot for the poor old right-hand pianist.

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Only ten piano keys ? Well, id have to take all the keys from middle C to C-2, now that is twelve, so i'd drop 2, those being Gb/F# & Db/C# Which would allow me to play all the C modes except Phrygian. That would permit playing just about every song written. A little boring being all based off C, but at least you could really play music.

Ahh, 5 years of being a Music Major in college and I'm a computer tech, go figure.

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Well if you know their wavelength, you'll know their frequency, and vice versa. Assuming you know wave velocity, which would be the speed of sound, the two are related by:

frequency = (speed of sound)/wavelength

That said, I will take 220Hz, 246Hz, 262Hz, 294Hz, 311Hz 330Hz, 349Hz, 392Hz, 440Hz, and 528 Hz.

Why is there so much literature discussed here and so little science? It's probably for the best. The addition of science would cut the last strand I have to the outside world.

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Like I said, every thread is the colossal geek thread. That's bound to happen when the forum is populated almost exclusively by colossal geeks.

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I don't know the reasoning behind your adherence to the lower midrange band of the human hearing rage as a controlling device in an environment where hearing is of great import to your chances of survival, but Fletcher and Munson, as acoustic physicists; created a useful and oft referenced paradigm for the use of equalisation by mapping the human auditory response. It peaks between 1 to 3dB above nominal (flat) between 800Hz and 4Kz in order to accentuate the range of human speech. This was an im-measurable contribution to the growth of the species, and to the use of language as it's primary construct for intellectual evolution.

My frequencies of choosing, within the narrow construct of this post -assuming that I had endless control over them- would be:

100Hz - the bass knob on almost every stereo built.

160Hz - Glue.

250Hz - Mud.

315Hz - Barking.

430Hz - More barking

630Hz - Yarp.

1.6Khz - Quack

3Khz - Bite... ow.

4.3Khz - Chisel in the ear

10Khz - Sibilance for days. The treble knob that follows the 100Hz bass knob for most home stereos.

Thank you.

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I don't know the reasoning behind your adherence to the lower midrange band of the human hearing rage as a controlling device in an environment where hearing is of great import to your chances of survival, but Fletcher and Munson, as acoustic physicists; created a useful and oft referenced paradigm for the use of equalisation by mapping the human auditory response. It peaks between 1 to 3dB above nominal (flat) between 800Hz and 4Kz in order to accentuate the range of human speech. This was an im-measurable contribution to the growth of the species, and to the use of language as it's primary construct for intellectual evolution.

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Those are the frequencies you tune midrange notes on a piano to. Or so I've heard:

http://tyala.freeyellow.com/4scales.htm#Equal

I'd like to switch my 528Hz to 630Hz, since I don't think I can live without Yarp.

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I'd like to switch my 528Hz to 630Hz, since I don't think I can live without Yarp.

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Dude, yarp r00lz.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

True dat.

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My ten desert island sandwiches are as follows:

1. bacon
2. HP brown sauce
3. banana
4. cheese and onion crisps
5. chips
6. cornish pasty
7. fried spam
8. fried egg
9. slighty wet cheese and tomato
10. onion gravy

my desert island trousers and desert island haircuts will follow shortly, unless there is some kind of 'desert island backlash'.

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I only got a B in Higher Physics. So sue me.

I'm obviously not a colossal geek.

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sandwiches are as follows:

HP brown sauce
cheese and onion crisps
chips
cornish pasty
fried spam
fried egg
slighty wet cheese and tomato
onion gravy

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And this, ladles and gentlemints, is why the English didn't take over the world. They kept eating their own cooking.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Wait on... Isn't C-2 two C's below middle C? Damn this text... Hey! Brad! Program a way to write sheet music and post it on the forum in the next 24 hours. Thanks!

Hey! Even one octave, including the black keys, is 13 notes! It would only be twelve if you omitted either the top or bottom C.

Why the fuck are we talking about this???

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My ten desert island numbers are as follows:

1. pi
2. 6.023 x 10^23
3. 42
4. 123
5. 456
6. 789
7. 007
8. 69
9. 911
10. 10

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My ten desert island numbers are as follows:

1. pi
2. 6.023 x 10^23

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with those 2 alone you could eat and try to tunnel your way to a civilised world

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You'd favour 123 over 666? Pah.

My ten desert island letters are RSTLNEAIOU, because those are the ones Pat Sajak always gives people for the final round of Wheel of Fortune, plus the rest of the vowels, so I figure they must be useful.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

666 is so clichéd.

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

And 42 isn't?

My ten desert island punctuation marks are, in ascending order:

10. ;
9/8. ( )
7. :
6. "
5. '
4. ?
3. ,
2. .
1. !

And 42 isn't?

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42 is a classic. It never goes out of style.

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G O - O U T S I D E !

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.