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Topic: Golden Gate Bridge “Singing” |
Fred Treece
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Posted 8 Jun 2020 8:47 am |
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-iyYFd_Exuo
It’s not Steel Guitar, but I think you could call it steel. I wonder what the nice folks in the quiet neighborhoods of sleepy old Sausalito think of it. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 12:07 am
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I like Brian Eno.
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 10:00 am
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| Right, Charlie. Where’s Harry Partch when we need him? Maybe Susan Alcorn can figure out a way to jam with the bridge. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 11:59 pm
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Susan jamming with the Golden Gate--cool.
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Roy Carroll
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Posted 10 Jun 2020 5:28 am
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Was Susan from Houston at one time?
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 10 Jun 2020 7:33 am
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John Cippolina of Quicksilver Messenger Service (I wonder how they got their name).
Is it mourning over the many suicides comitted there?
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 10 Jun 2020 10:50 am
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| Was Susan from Houston at one time? |
I think so.
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Susan Alcorn (deceased)
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2020 9:39 am
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I love this video and the sound they recorded of the Golden Gate Bridge. I've always loved those kind of sounds - music to my ears. When I was a child, walking down stairs with a railing - at school or some other big building, I would always run my hands along it and tap it with my knuckles (a habit that's unfortunately still unbroken) just to hear the different sounds. Music, of course, is sound, but it is our brains that make "music" - logical progressions of notes, pleasant harmonies, etc. - out of sound, our brains making order for ourselves out of chaos; and everyone's brain is different which is why some people like heavy metal or punk and others like country music. For the last hundred years or so, "sound" itself, pleasant or unpleasant, has become a part of our musical lexicon. I guess this is not news for most of you, but it's what I think of when I listen to this beautiful music. Thanks for sharing this.
I lived in Houston for 27 years. I'm now in Baltimore.
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Fred Treece
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Posted 14 Jun 2020 10:32 pm
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I thought you might enjoy that, Susan. Thanks for the insightful reminiscence of your childhood. I was more of a baseball-card-in-the-bike-wheel-spokes kinda kid, or whacking the monkey bars with a stick.
Wonder what it sounds like with the bridge singing and the foghorns going off at the same time? Maybe the wind speed and direction has an effect on the pitch, although it rarely blows in from anywhere but the west. |
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