"Brown Notes" fact or myth??

Bob Gollihur · #1 02-15-2005, 05:39 PM

I saw that the TV show "Mythbusters" are going after the urban legend of the Brown Note.

Mythbusters program

"Adam puts his body to the test for science. Will he be able to withstand subsonic frequencies, or will adult diapers be his only hope with the Brown Note? Jamie and Adam put the legend Hollywood gunfights to the test, but can you really be blown away?"

It's on the Discovery channel, Wed 9pm, Thurs 12am, and Fri 3pm

Mike Goodbar · #2 02-15-2005, 09:45 PM

I can barely contain myself.

T-Bal · #3 02-15-2005, 10:50 PM

Will Yoko and Kenny G be appearing?

anonymous0726 · #4 02-16-2005, 01:43 AM

Great duet name idea: Ono, G!

or, how 'bout:

Kenny in the key of G. But, Yoko? No-key-dokey. But, hokey.

ahem.

THAT wasn't worth posting, but I already went to the trouble of typing it out.....

anonymous0726 · #5 02-16-2005, 01:45 AM

BTW, BG, I don't have a TV, so make sure and let us know how 'things came out in the (out of the?) end'.

T-Bal · #6 02-16-2005, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Parker

I don't have a TV

You betta off.

Paul Warburton · #7 02-16-2005, 07:45 AM

Bob, I thought your business kept you pretty busy?

nrcafootball68 · #8 02-16-2005, 03:37 PM

its true. im not sure what the note would be but the frequency is 40 hertz

fraublugher · #9 02-16-2005, 04:48 PM

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003...1.php#comments

half true /half myth

Marcus Johnson · #10 02-16-2005, 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Parker

BTW, BG, I don't have a TV, so make sure and let us know how 'things came out in the (out of the?) end'.

No wonder you play so frickin' great.

anonymous0726 · #11 02-16-2005, 06:21 PM

Playin' bass totally whips ANY TV show!

jonasp · #12 02-16-2005, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Parker

Playin' bass totally whips ANY TV show!

Even American Idol???

anonymous0726 · #13 02-16-2005, 06:40 PM

AI would have a chance of they showed X-Rated side-stage scenes

Paul Warburton · #14 02-17-2005, 05:46 AM

Well, i'd like to be the first one to report that it didn't work.
They even went above the suggested amout of power....no poop!

Steve Killingsworth · #15 02-17-2005, 08:29 AM

Interesting program. Those guys have a very nifty of making a living.

Lyle Caldwell · #16 02-17-2005, 09:19 AM

I had a problem with their testing method. The "subject" was about 3' from the speakers. He never felt queasy. The observers, all standing 30'-50' away, did report feeling queasy and anxious.

They were using frequencies ranging from about 9Hz up to 30Hz (though once they did sweep up through to 100Hz). I'm pretty sure they were using sine waves. Anyway, those frequencies have very long waveforms. If you were to be standing at a node point of one of those ultra-low frequencies, you'd be much more effected. The node points of those ultra-low frequencies just happen to range from about 30' to 50'.

3' from the speakers, the waveforms haven't fully developed. I don't think that was at all an accurate test, and I think Mr. Meyer knows that.

But hey, its TV, not science.

Heifetzbass · #17 02-17-2005, 02:34 PM

Lyle-

You should email these concerns to the show. They have re-tested some of the myths due to faulty methodology. I agree with you on the sine waves.

Brian

Thee · #18 02-17-2005, 03:39 PM

You would think those hippie meyer sound guys would realize that. Oh well.

mje · #19 02-17-2005, 09:01 PM

There's an episode in Margaret Chaney's "Tesla: Man Out of Time" that may shed some light on this matter. I don't have Cheney's book at hand, but I found this summary of an even mentioned by Cheney in a paper on the web at UCB by a Katherine Krumme:
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Yet another excitement awaited Tesla’s visitors at the laboratory. Tesla had been perfecting a mechanical oscillator, a sort of engine that would produce alternating current of a high frequency. The inventor had noticed an interesting effect of the machine: it produced significant [low frequency] vibrations. Tesla wondered if these vibrations might have therapeutic or health benefits, and one day when Mark Twain was at his lab the author asked if he might experience these vibrations himself.

As the story goes, Mr. Twain stood on a platform of the machine while Tesla set the oscillator into operation. Twain was enjoying himself greatly and exclaimed: “This gives you vigour and vitality.”

After some time Tesla warned the writer that he should come down, but Twain was having fun and he refused. Tesla again insisted, but Twain stayed on the machine for several minutes more until, suddenly, he exclaimed: “Quick, Tesla. Where is it?”

Tesla directed his friend to the restroom. Twain had experienced
first hand what had been known to the laboratory workers for some time: the laxative effect of the machine’s vibrations.