Skip to 5:41 to hear it actually played. Although I assume you'd need very good speakers and I'm not sure if the YT audio compression is good for very low tones.
apricot 7 hours ago [-]
"The Montreal Symphony Orchestra is the only orchestra that owns one of these unusual instruments"
“Some of the instruments fall below the human hearing range, only the vibrations can be felt,” feels unreal to me for some reason. I can’t imagine a vibration rattling through me without hearing something at that power.
tpoacher 21 minutes ago [-]
Apparently this is a thing that was used in old horror movies.
Subsonic music would play just before a scary encounter, creating a feeling of uneasiness to the audience without any consciously perceptible stimulous, and thus priming the audience for the horror to come.
keepamovin 42 minutes ago [-]
Sounds like something you’ll have to try! :)
ofrzeta 5 hours ago [-]
"Bass! How low can you go?" (Public Enemy - Bring the Noise)
leptons 9 hours ago [-]
The Musical Instrument Museum is one of the best things to do in Phoenix. It's also one of my favorite museums in the world.
nkrisc 8 hours ago [-]
That place is amazing. Went there once thinking it would be a 30 minute diversion before we did other stuff. We spent nearly 4 hours in there.
Wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone in Phoenix.
7 hours ago [-]
tkgally 7 hours ago [-]
There's also a very nice musical instrument museum in Hamamatsu, Japan [1]. I really enjoyed it and would like to go again.
Yes, definitely plan to spend a few hours - it's a massive museum packed with musical instruments and cultures from around the world. They give you positional-aware headsets that play music and information as you near a display.
JKCalhoun 9 hours ago [-]
I do remember this tall bass. A very cool and unusual museum, BTW. Phoenix is a fun town. The Botanical Garden too is not to be missed.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 4 hours ago [-]
"With a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear"
To be fair, the difference between "sound" and "air pressure" is vibes. A tire inflator is probably putting out infrasonic frequencies, too.
They actually have three. https://www.osm.ca/en/octobasses/
Subsonic music would play just before a scary encounter, creating a feeling of uneasiness to the audience without any consciously perceptible stimulous, and thus priming the audience for the horror to come.
Wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone in Phoenix.
[1] https://www.gakkihaku.jp/en/
To be fair, the difference between "sound" and "air pressure" is vibes. A tire inflator is probably putting out infrasonic frequencies, too.
Definitely big.
Wouldn’t recommend for slap.