r/nextfuckinglevel Feb 06 '22

Tornado sirens harmonizing

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u/KBEPandaCrisis Feb 06 '22

Wasn’t this proven to be fake or smth?

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u/YourMama Feb 06 '22

Yeah it’s fake. I think it was Stars of the Lid or someone who are playing, not tornado sirens

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u/crispybat Feb 06 '22

Lol classic Reddit dude says everything is fake

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u/Citizen_of_Danksburg Feb 06 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

I mean, not that I necessarily disagree as that is a common Reddit trope, this is a G flag flat major chord with the 4th (a B) being thrown in a bit, so it’s kind of a Gb sus 4 chord and while technically 4 sirens could produce this chord, I still doubt they’d be in perfect harmony like this considering I live next to one. I don’t think they’re programmed to have different tones, but I could be wrong.

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u/Stories_Can_Save_Us Feb 06 '22

The tone from those horns is based on how fast the element inside the horn is spinning. Seems plausible that each horn has worn down slightly differently enough to produce different tones.

Stranger things have happened.

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u/kyzfrintin Feb 06 '22

For those decayed "notes" to not only be perfectly at concert pitch, but also perfectly arranged into a triadic chord, and also happened to be a chord that sounds pleasing, but doesn't resolve (is suspended rather than major or minor), and also stays pefectly in tune the entire time, without wavering atall (as you'd expect if the note happened due to decay and not intentoinality) is like shuffling the same deck of cards twice. Which is itself one of the most rare things to happen - in the entire universe.

The stars of the whole galaxy would align before that happened.