Do sweaters lose their color when put in a dark closet, as a ticking watch makes no sound when put in an airless container?
> On Jan 9, 2017, at 4:17 PM, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > >> On Jan 9, 2017, at 12:47 PM, John Mardinly <john.mardi...@asu.edu> wrote: >> >> sound and vibration are one and the same. If the string can >> be seen to be vibrating and you can't hear it, it is either a problem >> with your hearing (which to be sure comes naturally with our advancing >> age), or there is sufficient ambient noise in the room or other notes >> being played that the sound is overwhelmed. You can be sure, that if >> the string is vibrating, there IS sound, whether your ears/brain sense >> it or not. > > And there, in a nutshell, is the difference between physics and music. The > world is full of things that vibrate inaudibly to human ears. It is > scientifically correct, but musically irrelevant, to say they create sound. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
