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What the ear hears (and doesn't), inside the extraordinary everyday world of frequency, Richard Mainwaring

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What the ear hears (and doesn't), inside the extraordinary everyday world of frequency, Richard Mainwaring

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292) and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What the ear hears (and doesn't)

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bibliography

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Richard Mainwaring

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inside the extraordinary everyday world of frequency

Summary

In 2011, a skyscraper in South Korea began to shake uncontrollably without warning and was immediately evacuated. Was it an earthquake? An attack? No one seemed quite sure. The actual cause emerged later and is utterly fascinating: Twenty-three middle-aged folks were having a Tae Bo fitness class in the office gym on the twelfth floor. Their beats had inadvertently matched the building's natural frequency, and this coincidence―harnessing a basic principle of physics―caused the building to shake at an alarming rate for ten minutes. Frequency is all around us, but little understood., --Amazon

Table Of Contents

Prelude -- The black hole at the end of my piano -- Pitch perfect -- Bridges over troubled waters -- Ghost notes -- Fix in the mix -- Only the lonely -- Of sound mind -- Somewhere over the rainbow -- Acoustic ammunition -- Sleight of ear -- High times

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What the ear hears (and does not)

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