Scientific impossibilities in music

Ririon said:
A low C (in the contrabassoon range) on a clarinet is scientifically impossible. A high C played by a contrabassoon is just practically impossible. :p
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A while back I saw an ad for a little flute-like instrument in a magazine. The ad claimed that it had a range of 10 octaves.

Not even a piano has 10 octaves! But I guess even that isn't scientifically impossible; it's just that the top 8 octaves would be inaudible to humans....
 
rwguinn said:
Y'all aint from New Mexico, then, air ya?
Rio Grande flows from its source in Colorado, South into New mexico, wanders a lottle bit East and West, and at Albuquerque, runs pretty much due South to El Paso, where it turns E-Se, to Big Bend, where it goes North East a little, then back to SE to the Gulf.
Please look at a map before spouting off about things you know nothing about..
Billy was raised in Silver City, did his dirty deeds in Lincoln County, and Died just East of the Pecos....All in the State of New Mexico

ETA the All in New Mexico
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Happily stand corrected...

However, if I've been spouting, I'm in good company since I got the info from Billy Joel himself, in an interview admitting the error.

Maybe it wasn't so much an error after all... but his point was he hadn't done his homework, which is clearly the case.
 
gnome said:
Happily stand corrected...

However, if I've been spouting, I'm in good company since I got the info from Billy Joel himself, in an interview admitting the error.

Maybe it wasn't so much an error after all... but his point was he hadn't done his homework, which is clearly the case.
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Ah.
As in many things, his errors canceled out that time. :D
 
This just in... anyone remember the song:

"Would you like to swing on a star,
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?"

It turns out that swinging on stars and canning moonbeams are scientifically impossible! What a maroon!
 
o/~ If I could save time in a bottle... o/~

Silly, of course you can't put time into a bottle! A cube, yes. =@.@=
 
I suspect the most notable example would be Pink Floyd's
"I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. "

Mixed metaphors bother more that incorrect science in music. I laugh everytime I hear Cher sing "Just Like Jesse James" because the chorus includes: "Tonight you're gonna go down in flames just like Jesse James."
 
Ririon said:
A low C (in the contrabassoon range) on a clarinet is scientifically impossible. A high C played by a contrabassoon is just practically impossible. :p
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As a bassoon player (of some 23 years) I gladly verify this statement.


And if anyone out there wants to buy me a contrabassoon so I can prove it, that'd be just lovely.
 
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I think this is a mainstay.
Take your socks off and stay a while. :D
 
Ladewig said:
I suspect the most notable example would be Pink Floyd's
"I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. "

Mixed metaphors bother more that incorrect science in music. I laugh everytime I hear Cher sing "Just Like Jesse James" because the chorus includes: "Tonight you're gonna go down in flames just like Jesse James."
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To their credit, on the album, they do give the correct information - it's a spoken piece at the end of that song.
 
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