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Duane Reese

 

Post  Posted 5 Jul 2008 5:30 pm    
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Trains are kind of musical in their own rite - the rhythm of the rails, the harmony of the whistle - but this is beyond explanation...

This is an electric train somewhere over in Europe which, apparently by accident, plays the diatonic major scale when it accelerates!

What the heck is going on here?!
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Scott Shipley


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Post  Posted 5 Jul 2008 6:00 pm    
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That's a regional train in Austria. The trains in Europe are very symphonic.
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Don Drummer

 

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Post  Posted 6 Jul 2008 6:39 am    
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Some of those trains go quite fast. How mant octaves are we talking about?
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David Doggett


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Post  Posted 6 Jul 2008 9:09 am    
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Here's another one, possibly the same type, different color, and the scale is much fainter in volume: train scale
If these are undoctored, how does this happen? It seems to be a mode starting on the 3rd degree of the scale (phyrigian?)
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Scott Shipley


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Post  Posted 8 Jul 2008 2:07 am    
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The rail system in Europe is VERY efficient and vast. Each network within each country has it's own specific set of tones it uses for things like stops, announcements from the crew, etc. It's not accidental, pardon the pun.
Yes Don, some of the trains go stupid fast. I do about 80% of my travels in Europe by train. I love it. I was on an ICE train in Germany one time that was doing 367 kilometers per hour (they have a monitor that shows the current speed)! They only have major crashes about once every ten years or so, but when they do, they're dusies!
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Joe Miraglia


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Post  Posted 9 Jul 2008 11:42 am    
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That's the railroads we need in the U.S. What went wrong? Joe
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Scott Shipley


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Post  Posted 9 Jul 2008 11:48 am    
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You can travel from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern tip of Italy all by train (Eurostar provides passenger service through the "chunnel"), and MUCH cheaper than driving. I even have a discount card that gets me 50% off all my tickets.
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