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The car alarm went off
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If my friends did this I wouldn't even be mad
I can’t imagine the illusion works in person - only on video. the loudness of a car horn compared to a violin is hardly comparable.
Yeah, I don’t know. Some of my friends are pretty dumb. Heck, I’m pretty dumb.
Whether it works or not, it’s still hilarious.
What if I stood in front of your car and yelled "Beeeep! Beeeep! Beeeep!"?
I would clap in amusement.
But can you whistle?
The local parrots used to know (and repeat) the full multi-mode car alarm sequence in my area, back when car alarms went off far more than they do now.
"bwwwwwiiiiiiip! bwwwwwiiiiiiip! eeeee-ooooo! eeeee-ooooo! [ascending tone] [ascending tone]"
After a very long and exhausting day, I might be annoyed that my car alarm is going off and its volume is malfunctioning . . .
before I remember my car doesn't have an alarm.
if you played right you're pretty tired after a gig. you'll fall for pretty much anything
My friend plays the tuba
From the beginning of the video I thought the car would have to be much farther away than it is. I wonder if a similar audio illusion would happen in person, though of course he knew how close the car was
If my car was making the alarm sound even if it were quieter than normal I would probably still go investigate
Just realized car horns are a minor 3rd interval… makes sense that it should be dissonant to be alarming.
EDIT: this violinist is playing a major 3rd, which sounds right but after Googling, it's apparently typically a minor 3rd in the real world
How do you even look for such a gif, I mean what description gives you this 10/10
Just keep downloading them. Atleast that's what I do.
I'm sorry it's a Secret.
its a popular gif from the 2010s. popular among millennials at least.
That's a major 3rd tho, G and B
As you mentioned, Wikipedia suggests a common tuning of 500 Hz and 405-420 Hz for two pitched car horns.
I was curious to see what was going on musically at different parts of that range. I'm not an expert at all, so I may have made a mistake somewhere.
500 Hz is B4 sharpened by +21 cents.
405 Hz is G#4 flattened -43 cents. The ratio 500/405 is equal to 1.23, which is nearly a major third (5/4=1.25).
420 Hz is G#4 sharpened +19 cents. The ratio 500/420 is equal to 1.19, which is close to a minor third (6/5=1.20).
In summary, the provided range includes just beyond a minor third up almost until a major third. Dissonance increases farther away from simple integer ratios. This interval should sound either clearly minor or in some uncanny space between minor and major.
Interesting, I was listening to some samples on youtube of dual car horns and some did, in fact sound like they floated between minor and major. If I concentrated on one or the other I could "hear" it / perceive it as both.
Well there goes your theory cuz it’s a major third
Dang you are right, after looking online though it looks like it's typical minor 3rd in real-world
Minor thirds aren’t even dissonant though
Right, I'll admit I'm new to music theory. Still identifying them all.
So anything within a whole step is dissonant (so minor second, major second, minor seventh or major seventh) are dissonant. Also augmented fourths. Also in classical music parallel fourths, fifths or octaves were also considered dissonant, but that’s not really the case any more in modern music where that’s very common.
Thanks.
I've been identifying some tritones and major 7ths in music that I hadn't before. Like the ascending one for the sung intro for "The Simmmpsonnns" 1-aug4-5.
and the notable descending tritone phrase in the Heart Shaped Box guitar riff.
For tritone I immediately think of Maria from Westside Story. Major 7th I think of moon river. After a while you get a good feel for it and won’t have to rely so much on these mnemonics though. Keep at it!
This is fucking great.
What a violin collision
That’s too funny
Love the reaction
Som of a bitch! Lol
Is you is or is you ain’t my babeyyy
😂😂
First great laugh of the day.
I'd like to see this guy and the guy with the trombone on the slow moving motorbike get together.
All car alarms are in the key of F if you want to do this at home.
Hijo de puuuuuuuuu 🤣🤣🤣
That’s great
A false alarm.
Que hijo de puta jsjsjs 😂
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
One of the musicians’ car alarms goes off, so he goes to check what’s going on. But what seemed like a real alarm was actually the violinist playing a prank.
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