http://nanobotswillenslaveusall.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/monkey-music/ Thu, 16 May 2013 02:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nanobotswillenslaveusall.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/monkey-music/#comment-2093 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:59:48 +0000 http://nanobotswillenslaveusall.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-2093 [...] to pretend to coddle these monkeys. They can take it. After all, they can apparently listen to extremely bad music, so I think they can handle a few [...]

]]> http://nanobotswillenslaveusall.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/monkey-music/#comment-12 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:17:20 +0000 http://nanobotswillenslaveusall.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-12 it’s kind of crazy how the biology of our ears influences the pitches we like to hear. the way the cochlea is coiled, there are clusters of hairs that respond to the exact frequencies of thepitches of the notes in our chromatic scale (ie C is 440hz).
since other mammals have different ear configurations, i bet the scales they would come up with would sound totally different. i wish i could find the awesome diagram that i was shown in a class, but this weak one is the only one i could find, and really isn’t what i was looking for.
http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/08/45/5/images/clarkf04.gif

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