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)

Long as I had the key to the liquor cabinet.

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.

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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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.

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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.

And the geeks shall inherit the earth.

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

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

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

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True dat.

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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Well if you know their wavelength, you'll know their frequency, and vice versa.

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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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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.

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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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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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You'd favour 123 over 666? Pah.

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666 is so clichéd.

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

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

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666 is so clichéd.

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And 42 isn't?

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G O - O U T S I D E !

I love that cranky old bastard. *sniffle*

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G O - O U T S I D E !

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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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I love that cranky old bastard. *sniffle*

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30323

My ten desert island desert islands:

Dia
The Galapogas Islands
The Maldives
San Jose
The Midriff Islands
Santa Catalina
The ABC Islands
The Hawar Islands
The Exumas Islands
Towela

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

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

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My top ten desert island onomatopoeias....

Ah, fuck it...

My desert island Ireland desserts.

1. Guinness Gateau.
2. White Pudding Pudding.
3. Potato Cake Cakes.
4. Whiskey Crumble.
5. Wild Rover Souffle.
6. Baked Antrim.
7. Cork Cake.
8. Riverscones.
9. Deep Fried Cranky Farmer.
10. Stray Dog Surprise.