{"id":5135,"date":"2015-07-10T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:17:21","slug":"weekend-picks-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a handful of random music-related links for your browsing this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you shatter a wine glass with your voice<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A human voice can shatter a glass. Every object has a resonant frequency \u2013 the natural frequency at which something vibrates. Wine glasses, because of their hollow shape, are particularly resonant. If you run a damp finger along the rim of a glass, you might hear a faint, ghostly hum \u2013 the resonant frequency of the glass. Or you can simply tap the glass and hear the same frequency. To shatter the glass, a singer\u2019s voice has to match that frequency, or pitch, and the glass must have microscopic defects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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The Mirror Duet<\/a> is usually attributed to Mozart, although there is some question about that. If you’re not familiar, it’s a duet where the two players stand facing each other, reading the same page of sheet music. And it works<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I have no idea who Helen Amvroseva and George Shakhnin are\/were, and no way to embed this video of them performing Cs\u00e1rd\u00e1s<\/a> on trumpet, trombone, and piano. It’s both impressive and funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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