Cats and dogs and their kind

Taking a cue from the ancient work "brihaddeshi", we can make the
following list, associating each note with the sound of a
bird/animal:-
Here, for the first time, we do not know the frequency of Sa, or any
other of the seven notes -- that is why the animal cries act
as "standards".
Sa (the tonic) -- the peacock
Re .......... -- chataka (a bird)
Ga .......... -- the goat
Ma .......... -- the heron
Pa .......... -- the cuckoo
Dha ......... -- the frog
Ni .......... -- the elephant

If a bird/an animal species, wherever in the world its habitat may
be, cries in the same frequency, under similar external (temperature,
etc) and internal (non-agitated, peaceful) conditions, then we can
infer the entire ancient scale. Nobody seems to have tried to find
this out; nobody, now, would consider it "normal" even to try to
investigate it.

Moreover, the cats all over the world also may have the same
frequency to cry in! For example, "shreeswifty"'s cat and Seth's
cat, along with our cat, named Shanti (meaning peace, as she is very
quiet), can be the population for a model study! All the cats DO
have one thing in common: they all 'purr' in very low frequencies
(close to 25 Hz).

How serious such studies be? Is there a prima facie case for such
studies to be undertaken at all? Ridiculous? Strange? "Different"?

Haresh.

Haresh BAKSHI wrote:

> Moreover, the cats all over the world also may have the same
> frequency to cry in! For example, "shreeswifty"'s cat and Seth's
> cat, along with our cat, named Shanti (meaning peace, as she is very
> quiet), can be the population for a model study! All the cats DO
> have one thing in common: they all 'purr' in very low frequencies
> (close to 25 Hz).
>
> How serious such studies be? Is there a prima facie case for such
> studies to be undertaken at all? Ridiculous? Strange? "Different"?

At the risk of being labeled a curmudgeon for jumping in after a long silence only to be negative,
I would have to say "ridiculous." I love cats, have owned several, have taken on the feeding of
many strays, and various friends and family have owned several. Not only do all cats not meow at
the same frequency, but all cats meow at a different average frequency. Some only make very high
pitched sounds (many solid color domestics, cheetas), some only very low (most Siamese, tigers and
lions), and some in between (most tabbies). In addition, most cats make a variety of sounds at
different pitches ranging over an octave for each cat. I would consider it a ridiculous waste of
time to try to pin down cat cries to a single pitch. You might as well try to determine a single
pitch at which opera singers sing, or a single pitch that pianos make.

--
David J. Finnamore
Nashville, TN, USA
http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/d/f/dfin/index.html
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I believe Haresh is speaking of the low purr that house cats emit at will. I
read in the National Geographic that they purr at a low F below the staff.
It is fairly regular, perhaps and earlier stage for the perfect pitch gene?

Johnny Reinhard