Car horns and other cultural influences

Kraig Grady to John Link:
>
> John!
> yes i have heard what seems to be a 9/7. I have heard trains play 7/9/11
> too. It seems you would want to have a more dissonant interval to cut through
> the masking of the ambient noise. Here I noticed that they change the siren
> patterns here depending on the time of day!

I'll be shalliwagged! Paul Erlich was right about cultural conditioning
toward preferred tunings. We singers have evidently been bombarded with 9/7s
from the damndest places. ;-)

Jer