beautiful harmonies in the sky

i just experienced the weirdest thing.

5 minutes ago (6:45 am PDT) there began a
roaring in sky, which i figured was just a
jet plane going by overhead.

my neighborhood is not very close to any
of the direct routes to the airport, so
i don't generally hear jets at home. but
there are all manner of aircraft flying
around San Diego, so i didn't rule it out
right away ...

but it was very strange, first of all because
it seemed to last a very long time, and
then because i could hear soft tones with
very clear harmonic proportions in it, mainly
10:12:15:16, and there were a couple of other
notes between 12:15 that sometimes sounded like
14, sometimes like 13.5 (= 27), sometimes like
something else.

THIS WAS WEIRD!!!

then after about a whole minute or perhaps
even a bit longer, it slowly faded away.

THEN AFTER ANOTHER MINUTE IT RETURNED!

exactly as before.

DID ANYONE ELSE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEAR THIS?

-monz

while i was writing this and re-reading it,
i've heard 2 or 3 jets fly by briefly.

i'm telling you all, the sound i describe
here was totally unlike those regular planes.

THIS WAS W E I R D !!!!!!

-monz

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:

/tuning/post?act=reply&messageNum=45467

> i just experienced the weirdest thing.
>
> 5 minutes ago (6:45 am PDT) there began a
> roaring in sky, which i figured was just a
> jet plane going by overhead.
>
> my neighborhood is not very close to any
> of the direct routes to the airport, so
> i don't generally hear jets at home. but
> there are all manner of aircraft flying
> around San Diego, so i didn't rule it out
> right away ...
>
> but it was very strange, first of all because
> it seemed to last a very long time, and
> then because i could hear soft tones with
> very clear harmonic proportions in it, mainly
> 10:12:15:16, and there were a couple of other
> notes between 12:15 that sometimes sounded like
> 14, sometimes like 13.5 (= 27), sometimes like
> something else.
>
> THIS WAS WEIRD!!!
>
> then after about a whole minute or perhaps
> even a bit longer, it slowly faded away.
>
> THEN AFTER ANOTHER MINUTE IT RETURNED!
>
> exactly as before.
>
> DID ANYONE ELSE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEAR THIS?
>
>
>
> -monz

on 7/12/03 7:03 AM, monz <monz@attglobal.net> wrote:

> while i was writing this and re-reading it,
> i've heard 2 or 3 jets fly by briefly.
>
> i'm telling you all, the sound i describe
> here was totally unlike those regular planes.

This reminds me of one of the most beautiful sounds of human machine origin
I have ever heard: A very LARGE branch cutter - is that the right term -
one of those things that eats tree branches for breakfast. It was either
spinning up or spinning down, I can't remember which, but the effect was
fantastic. At the time I did not have the sensibilities to register the
harmonics, but for sure there were a lot of them. But I was sad to realize
that I would probably never hear the sound again (and so far I haven't). It
was totally space filling between some large industrial buildings. Maybe it
was not actually a branch cutter but some wood-demolition device for tearing
buildings down - just realizing this now - it was around the time that a
large wrecking ball was there in the same vicinity.

>
> THIS WAS W E I R D !!!!!!
>
>
> -monz
>
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/post?act=reply&messageNum=45467
>
>
>> i just experienced the weirdest thing.
>>
>> 5 minutes ago (6:45 am PDT) there began a
>> roaring in sky, which i figured was just a
>> jet plane going by overhead.
>>
>> my neighborhood is not very close to any
>> of the direct routes to the airport, so
>> i don't generally hear jets at home. but
>> there are all manner of aircraft flying
>> around San Diego, so i didn't rule it out
>> right away ...
>>
>> but it was very strange, first of all because
>> it seemed to last a very long time, and
>> then because i could hear soft tones with
>> very clear harmonic proportions in it, mainly
>> 10:12:15:16, and there were a couple of other
>> notes between 12:15 that sometimes sounded like
>> 14, sometimes like 13.5 (= 27), sometimes like
>> something else.
>>
>> THIS WAS WEIRD!!!
>>
>> then after about a whole minute or perhaps
>> even a bit longer, it slowly faded away.
>>
>> THEN AFTER ANOTHER MINUTE IT RETURNED!
>>
>> exactly as before.
>>
>> DID ANYONE ELSE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEAR THIS?
>>
>>
>>
>> -monz
>
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