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I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A, I believe 60 is a B. In a lot of popular musical scales this is a dissonant tone. Dissonant

by snarfy 5y ago

I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A, I believe 60 is a B. In a lot of popular musical scales this is a dissonant tone. Dissonant tones are associated with anxiety. Is constant 60 cycle hum giving people anxiety?

bruce343434 5y ago
dissonant with what? I don't think a tone can be dissonant in and of itself, dissonance is a foul combination of waves that are just slightly misaligned.
- belter 5y ago
  Not if you have perfect pitch...
- snarfy 5y ago
  Dissonant with any western music that might be playing in the key of C.
  - marcan_42 5y ago
    B is in the key of C. It's the seventh degree of the scale. It's the seventh of the I chord and the 3rd of the V chord and more. That's not dissonant in any way, shape or form. Nevermind that obviously music is written in more keys than C anyway.
    - snarfy 5y ago
      Play a B and C together. Dissonance. It is true it's not a very good idea.
      - marcan_42 5y ago
        A CMaj7 chord has both a B and a C in it and it sounds perfectly fine. You're saying the home chord in the key with the simplest extension is dissonant. That makes no sense. You hear music with two adjacent semitones played together all the time. It's in all jazz music and everything derived from it, which is a huge chunk of modern western music. Seriously, music isn't all just 3-note chords and a B and a C together sound perfectly fine in the right context, and even moreso when they are separated by several octaves, as in the mains hum theory.
        snarfy 5y ago
        Jazz uses dissonance to create tension in music. Is that much different than stating it causes anxiety?
Sporktacular 5y ago
Europe uses 50Hz AC power, so that anxiety would geographically differ
andrekandre 5y ago
> Dissonant tones are associated with anxiety. is this true in all cultures?
Maursault 5y ago
> I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A If practicing an area with electrical hum, tuning A down to 420 (7 * 60) is definitely a relief.

by snarfy 5y ago

bruce343434 5y ago

dissonant with what? I don't think a tone can be dissonant in and of itself, dissonance is a foul combination of waves that are just slightly misaligned.

belter 5y ago
Not if you have perfect pitch...
snarfy 5y ago
Dissonant with any western music that might be playing in the key of C.
- marcan_42 5y ago
  B is in the key of C. It's the seventh degree of the scale. It's the seventh of the I chord and the 3rd of the V chord and more. That's not dissonant in any way, shape or form. Nevermind that obviously music is written in more keys than C anyway.
  - snarfy 5y ago
    Play a B and C together. Dissonance. It is true it's not a very good idea.
    - marcan_42 5y ago
      A CMaj7 chord has both a B and a C in it and it sounds perfectly fine. You're saying the home chord in the key with the simplest extension is dissonant. That makes no sense. You hear music with two adjacent semitones played together all the time. It's in all jazz music and everything derived from it, which is a huge chunk of modern western music. Seriously, music isn't all just 3-note chords and a B and a C together sound perfectly fine in the right context, and even moreso when they are separated by several octaves, as in the mains hum theory.
      - snarfy 5y ago
        Jazz uses dissonance to create tension in music. Is that much different than stating it causes anxiety?

Sporktacular 5y ago

Europe uses 50Hz AC power, so that anxiety would geographically differ

andrekandre 5y ago

> Dissonant tones are associated with anxiety. is this true in all cultures?

Maursault 5y ago

> I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A If practicing an area with electrical hum, tuning A down to 420 (7 * 60) is definitely a relief.