Can YOU hear relative water temperature?

[Bevan777]

I can hear the difference between copper and steel pipes, copper has a warmer, darker tone whilst steel has a brighter and more modern sound.

 

[KenD]

I'm with you man! No, yeah, like wow! Like I can even hear molecules of neurochemicals moving through my cinapses. Sometimes they tell me important things too, although that's supposed to be confidential

 

[Topkat13]

Depends on what I've eaten during the day and how long I sit in the bath at night.

 

[bobalu]

If you have a tort shower head your water will be hot right away. Fact.

 

[micguy]

Some number of years ago, someone gave me a handful of change and.... once I got away from the cash register, I looked, and yes, I had a silver quarter - those sound different than the copper ones. I didn't know until I looked that that was what it was - I just heard a different clink.

I have was once somewhat annoyed on a vacation, because the bell on the bouy in the channel next to the island we were backpacking on was ringing....F sharp. It took me a few hours to realize that one of the tunes we were playing in my band was in F sharp, and then I was OK - I could play that tune in my head when the bell clanged. My pitch memory is very good - essentially perfect pitch is some situations. I sometimes wake up with a note in my head - when that happens, I'll know what note it is, and if I check, I'm dead on.

But the temperature of the water coming out of a faucet? I just spent a couple minutes listening to one of our bathroom faucets with the hot running, then the cold. Sounds the same, at least to my ears on that faucet.

 

[micguy]

I usually adjust the temperature of my shower to B-flat.

A shower tuned to 432 Hz is the best. You're above optimal pitch, and will pay for it in stress.

 

[blastoff]

i believe it. finely tuned hearing can detect minute differences in all sorts of things. but the question remains, what's the best faucet for metal?

 

[Sid Fang]

I discovered this relatively recently. The wash basin where I shave is a very long way from the water heater, and I have to let the hot water run for several minutes before it starts to come out hot. For literally years, I'd stick a finger in the flow periodically to monitor, but then realized the timbre changed when the water got hot, and I could just listen for it.

 

[Sid Fang]

i believe it. finely tuned hearing can detect minute differences in all sorts of things. but the question remains, what's the best faucet for metal?

I think it behooves us to ask, "What's the best metal for faucet?".

 

[SharpCat]

I think it behooves us to ask, "What's the best metal for faucet?".

Yacht Rock.

 

[hbarcat]

I can hear relative air temperature and humidity.

Cooler, drier air makes noises sound more "staccato".

Also, the sound of footsteps on snow is temperature dependent. I can hear the difference between snow crunching in 40⁰, 20⁰, 0⁰, and -20⁰ degrees Fahrenheit.

I've been outside in -40⁰F temperature before and every sound is clear and bold and immediate. It's eerie.

 

[Tassieviking]

I have never listened for the shower to get hot, but I will try from now on.
I sure as heck can tell when my Mrs runs out of hot water by the tone of her voice.

 

[SharpCat]

I can hear relative air temperature and humidity.

Cooler, drier air makes noises sound more "staccato".

Also, the sound of footsteps on snow is temperature dependent. I can hear the difference between snow crunching in 40⁰, 20⁰, 0⁰, and -20⁰ degrees Fahrenheit.

I've been outside in -40⁰F temperature before and every sound is clear and bold and immediate. It's eerie.

A long time ago, I worked for a company based in Minneapolis, but worked here where I live in western Washington. We’d get a bit of snow and everything would shut down, and the Minneapolis folks would laugh at us. I did a business trip back there in January once, outside temp -19F. Totally different snow than we get in Washington. Told a local guy about it, and I described our snow as ‘like a slushy’. He said “Oh yeah, we get that once or twice a year—everything shuts down then. “

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Yup.
I hear a lot of things that are subtle or do not exist to most.

Hearing is our most useful sense right there with sight. We can hear things not seen, ears are the eyes in the side/back of your head.
That is why the electric cars make wooshy and other noises. People did not realize how much we hear to see cars when walking around until cars were made with no sound.

The other day I told The Wife to turn off the shower she just turned on because I could not hear myself shaving. She was confused.
Outside with some people, "A deer is coming" a minute later it is in sight.

Two days ago while at the far opposite side of the yard about a hundred feet away, I heard a rustling in the bushes that was different. Start heading that way then my chicken makes a faint bock, I run. Got there just in time to pull a raccoon off of the bird before it caused her any harm. Two seconds later blood would have been drawn.
I heard/seen it before it came into my vision.

Wear your hearing protection when gigging or going to or doing anything loud. The ears help you see and feel the world around you.

 

[trevcda]

I saw this video a few years ago that seems pertinent to this conversation:

 

[seescottrock]

Due to like 80+ Ear infections I can barely hear anything.

 

[SharpCat]

Due to like 80+ Ear infections I can barely hear anything.

Sorry 'bout that!

 

[yodedude2]

I can hear the effect of hot water when it starts to come out of the shower head or the sink faucets. I realize i'm not hearing the water itself, but the effect the water has on other materials.

despite my ongoing and slowly worsening tinnitus ~

 

[Diminishedfilth]

I could definitely hear the difference when my ex's shower water was too hot or too cold.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I find that most people don't know about this, but I think musicians are better-suited to be able to hear the difference in sound from cold to room-temp to hot water coming out of the faucet or shower head. Cold water has more of a hiss sound, and hot has more of a shussh sound. Kind of a parlor trick, but I thought it was fun.

Taught to me as a kid years ago--when installing natural gas line to a water heater or furnace, you can purge the air by listening to the whistle from the pipe--when it changes tone, the gas has reached the end and you can light the pilot or whatever.

Nowadays, I just listen when waiting for the shower to get hot before jumping in.

I find that most people don't know about this, but I think musicians are better-suited to be able to hear the difference in sound from cold to room-temp to hot water coming out of the faucet or shower head. Cold water has more of a hiss sound, and hot has more of a shussh sound. Kind of a parlor trick, but I thought it was fun.

Taught to me as a kid years ago--when installing natural gas line to a water heater or furnace, you can purge the air by listening to the whistle from the pipe--when it changes tone, the gas has reached the end and you can light the pilot or whatever.

Nowadays, I just listen when waiting for the shower to get hot before jumping in.

I’m just going to suggest here that the reason for the change in sound. Tim might be caused by the expansion of the plumbing (pipes and or fixtures) heating up and expanding.