Found my old train whistle from childhood in the attic today, I decided to toy with it a bit, and I finally discovered how it works (having lost track of it when I first got into music theory). Four chambers, each tuned to a different pitch, creating a chord when blown into.
In this case? C-Eb-Gb-Bb, a C half-diminished-seventh chord.
And I figured out that both in toy form and in real life, they’re conditioned to produce a chord, and freight trains in particular often produced dissonant chords, a useful side effect for convincing people who might be on or near the tracks to move the hell out of the way.
In this case? C-Eb-Gb-Bb, a C half-diminished-seventh chord.
And I figured out that both in toy form and in real life, they’re conditioned to produce a chord, and freight trains in particular often produced dissonant chords, a useful side effect for convincing people who might be on or near the tracks to move the hell out of the way.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
