News about B-flat creating waves “hovering above your head”

Here’s a podcast about Glenway Fripp’s discovery of standing waves that seem to miraculously form in certain places when a B-flat note is played, sung or, in this case – whistled:  http://atlantic.org/sonic-ids/b-flat

And a snippet more about him from NPR:  http://www.npr.org/templates/text/s.php?sId=7442915&m=1

Closer to home, a friend of mine was telling me a few years ago about an experience he had while jamming where a note that the band  was playing seemed to just hang above his head – floating there.  They all took it in turn to move into that part of the room while playing the note, and they all experienced it, seemingly dwelling above their heads – taking on a life of its own – like some sort of zero-point energy source.

My friend says he has a recording of that, too.  It will be interesting if he can dig it out.

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