These videos document men singing remarkably low-pitched music. (Thanks to investigator Jim Cowdery for steering us to them.) and also, if you need more, Neatorama’s “Singer Sets World Record for Lowest Vocal Note”
Tag: notes
The distance between musical notes
Today’s quick calculation exercise is to calculate the relative distances between different musical notes and a trombone player’s face. Watch this video of a trombone player playing a tune on a trombone. A GoPro camera has been affixed to part of the trombone, and aimed at the musician’s face: (Thanks to investigator Dorothy Bond for […]
How many tunes?
Ashley Hamer does some math to find out many different tunes could possibly be written, given how many notes there are on the music scale. She explains it in this 11-minute-line video, chock full of examples: Thanks to investigator Jennifer Ouellette for bringing this to our attention.
When singers raise eyebrows (and how that’s interpreted)
When singers sing high notes, their eyebrows go higher than when they sing low notes. While that may not be an absolute physiological rule, a team of Danish and American researchers discovered that it happens pretty consistently. They lay out the evidence, and explain what it may mean, in a study called Facial Expression and Vocal […]