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Your "Ohm" Sound ?
Your "Ohm" Sound ?
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GermanHarpist
599 posts
Sep 05, 2009
4:58 PM
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Chris just mentioned on the other thread that HIS Ohm sound is F#. No disrespect, but I don't believe in this 7.8 stuff (math vs numerology). But for me a plausible explanation could be, that it's just his anatomy (scull dimensions, cavities, etc) that create a certain base note...
All this beside, here comes the real question of this thread: What's your own personal "ohm" sound?
So go, sit below that tree, listen to the insides of your body. Hum your Ohm sound... and capture it on the harp. ;)
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Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2009 6:20 PM
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jonsparrow
950 posts
Sep 05, 2009
5:15 PM
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3 draw bent half step. "A" harp. marine band.
Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2009 5:16 PM
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Oisin
326 posts
Sep 05, 2009
5:40 PM
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My Ohm sound is the sound of my missus and kids whining for money/a lift/take the bins out/ no you can't go out to your jam/ stop playing that bloody harmonica.
If someone says thay can hear the sound of the earth going round then they must have fecking big ears.
I've never heard a bigger load of bollocks in all my life.
An "Ohm" to me is a type of LSD tab that were popular in the early 90s when I was into raving. That might explain a lot of this.
Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2009 5:42 PM
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Mgimino
79 posts
Sep 05, 2009
7:33 PM
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This stuff is all way over my head but, but the first note I naturally went to in my hum was a D. I can hum other notes, but it feels like my root note would be a D. So that would be the 2 hole draw on a G harp, which isn't one of my more preferred harps ironically.
Would that be considered my "ohm"?
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Andrew
578 posts
Sep 05, 2009
11:36 PM
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As it happens, my Om sound is an F#, but that's just physiological. And if a lot of people's Om sound is an F# it just means that's the mean head size, or mean vocal chord size when relaxed. If most men are 5'7" tall, that's not mystical. In Britain and America we are cross-bred Iberians, Vikings, Germans, Romans. I bet in a lot of the Far East where there's less hybridisation, there's less physiological variation.
The main thing I'd query is the methodology of Buddha's claim about F# in ancient cultures. They didn't know what F# was and they didn't record frequencies. The Greeks tried to record in words, but they are so abstract that we don't know what Greek music sounded like. Buddha probably has in mind gongs or maybe lithophones (I invented the word because xylophones are wood) from the far east from maybe a thousand years ago, but if they were tuned to the most common Om pitch, that would explain it. If he has been reading numerologists, then they probably ignored all the instruments from the Far East that didn't fit the pattern.
Buddha gave no other convincing examples of F# occurring.
Schumann Resonance seems to be a fact (there's a Wiki page on it), but 7.8 Hz is (currently) about a B.
Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2009 11:41 PM
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GermanHarpist
604 posts
Sep 06, 2009
3:08 AM
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Ok, I had a moment of silence and did a quick Ohm check (lol ;), and it was a G (2 hole draw on C harp, but an octave lower).
I'll keep on trying, maybe I'll get different/better results...
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