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Did you know that Earth has a sound? Actually it’s an aggregate vibration of the sounds of the waterfalls and wind rushing around mountains, waving wires in the breeze and more. It’s the B-flat sound. I’ve never been into music so this doesn’t mean much to me but I got the meditation buzz within seconds of playing a similar sound known as the F-tone (then sore ears!). The website Kung Tao has a downloadable mp3 for you to try out yourself.
So what is the B-flat tone? B-flat, also known as A-sharp, is about an octave below middle C. So, only very slightly lower. (No wonder I failed music lessons.) There is a black hole in the centre of our galaxy broadcasting a B-flat sound that is 57 octaves lower (so to make it a B flat they’ve got to speed up the sound by about 10,000 years!) If you sometimes hear a ringing in your ears, guess what, it’s probably the B-flat tone, not tinnitis!
Interestingly, animals know this too. If you play a b-flat sound to an alligator they start making loud noises!
So, human beings know the universe hums at B-flat and can even detect it sometimes. But what can we use it for? What does it mean?
We need to be more in touch with the world around us for the world around us to be more in touch with us and manifest abundance in our lives. When meditating, try to hum a mantra at B-flat. Some Tibetan monks can do it. Maybe you can too!
Let’s all try to get in tune with the universe and see what happens.
As a former Public School Band Director for 32 years and a professional musician (Trombone, Euphonium and Tuba) I am well aware of the universality of the musical tone that we call B Flat. My primary Instrument (Trombone) – in closed First Position plays Concert BFlat and all the harmonic overtones of BFlat (Bb, Bb, F, Bb, D, F, Gb+-, Bb etc etc depending upon the strength of the physical embouchure [lips] and wind). Bb Trumpets (they know it as C), Bb Clarinets (same), Tubas, Euphoniums, the Bb part of the Double French Horn, Flutes, Tenor Saxes all tuned to Bb. Alto Saxes and Melophones Eb , English Horns and French Horn tuned to F ( third harmonic in the Bb overtone series-see above)
Before all of our electronic tuner gadgets and gizmos we in the band used to tune to an very simple audio Bb continuous sound that was turned on before our rehearsal started. There was a button on this device that when switched would sound an “A” (440+-) for the Orchestra. I forget what the Hz is for Bb. It was stamped on the Tuning Bar that we also used in order ton tune the band – before the electronic tone gadget.