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To: tang-soo
How can a B flat be 57 octaves below a middle C [on, or off, a piano]?
3 posted on 09/24/2003 10:42:46 AM PDT by curmudgeonII
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To: curmudgeonII
How can a B flat be 57 octaves below a middle C [on, or off, a piano]?

Just because a note is below the range of a piano keyboard or even human hearing doesn't mean it can't exist.

5 posted on 09/24/2003 10:49:06 AM PDT by Bacon Man (Bacon is never wrong but occasionally fried.)
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To: curmudgeonII
How can a B flat be 57 octaves below a middle C [on, or off, a piano]?

I think he means 57 and two twelfths octaves, but he rounded off...

6 posted on 09/24/2003 10:49:48 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: curmudgeonII
By having a wavelength 57 times longer than middle c.
7 posted on 09/24/2003 10:51:29 AM PDT by eastsider
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