Whale music

Wally Pfeifer · Post by **Wally Pfeifer** » 26 Apr 2021 6:34 am

The latest National Geographic magazine has printed music that scientists have recorded from whales.
Check it out . Have any of you seen it and played it. It would be interested to see if there is a melody or ? 8

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 26 Apr 2021 6:53 am

What tuning do they use? Sea 6th?

James Sission · Post by **James Sission** » 26 Apr 2021 7:05 am

I used to play in a surf band. We always had a whale of time.

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Wally Pfeifer · Post by **Wally Pfeifer** » 26 Apr 2021 3:19 pm

There's always got to be a few jokers in the crowd.
Can they even play steel or just try to make jokes? I'm almost sure they haven't even seen the magazine

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Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 26 Apr 2021 4:01 pm

Don R Brown wrote:What tuning do they use? Sea 6th?

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Mitch Ellis · Post by **Mitch Ellis** » 26 Apr 2021 6:48 pm

They don't mean no harm, Wally. They're just kidding. You gotta admit that the "sea 6th" thing was a good one.

Mitch

Jon Voth · Post by **Jon Voth** » 26 Apr 2021 7:06 pm

What a coincidence-going through all the original Star Trek movies with my kids and just this weekend saw Star Trek IV-The Voyage Home (it's about whales). No pedal steel though.

Wally Pfeifer · Post by **Wally Pfeifer** » 26 Apr 2021 9:12 pm

Yeah.- I know they're kidding. Just proves you can make a joke out of anything. And some people are just natural jokesters. Like the dolphin said to the whale,-"Sea you around big boy". Groan-n-n-n

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Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 27 Apr 2021 5:26 am

Four guys got together to sing down by the riverside. There was a first tuna, 2nd tuna, barracuda and a bass.
They were singing just for the halibut...

Josh Moss · Post by **Josh Moss** » 27 Apr 2021 5:32 am

Don R Brown wrote:What tuning do they use? Sea 6th?

Well done, sir.

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 27 Apr 2021 6:53 am

There was an album of humpback whale "songs" that got a fair amount of attention when I was in high school (70/71). Friends had it and I heard it quite a bit; pretty cool in small doses. I'm sure there are clips of this kind of thing on Youtube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_ ... le_(album)

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 27 Apr 2021 6:57 am

Josh Moss wrote:
Well done, sir.

I don't usually do that well, it was just a fluke.

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 27 Apr 2021 7:01 am

Any plans to put that whale music on line? It would make a great podcast.

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 27 Apr 2021 7:02 am

Pete -- I remember it (too) well.
I was working with an artist and one song really wanted some 'ambient' treatment. I have a large pedalboard to provide a palette for this sort of thing but I asked the artist (and friend) to PLEASE let me know if it started to sound too humpbacky. That's NOT where I want to go. Or was it? There was a reason that it caught on, back then -- it IS cool. In small doses.

gary pierce · Post by **gary pierce** » 27 Apr 2021 4:01 pm

Seriously, I was asked at a session once could I make whale sounds, and I said if you let me hear some I probably could. I didn't have time to search it so I just played steel sounds.

Bob Sigafoos · Post by **Bob Sigafoos** » 27 Apr 2021 7:06 pm

Wasn't all that whale music in the 70's speeded up about twenty times? I remember hearing the real sounds and it was very low sounding and lasted for minutes at a time. Not cute little cherps and blips. Has anyone heard the "whale meat" song? No? Just imagine Earnest Tubb... Whale meat again baby and then......"

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 27 Apr 2021 7:46 pm

Wally Pfeifer wrote:There's always got to be a few jokers in the crowd.
Can they even play steel or just try to make jokes? I'm almost sure they haven't even seen the magazine $:\$

Wally, I figured a thread on whale music in the "Steel Players" section was not to be taken seriously. If it was, my apologies. As for National Geographic, I have not looked at one since about 4th grade, and that was just to see the pictures of...well, never mind.

That said, you hit the nail on the head, my jokes would attract fewer tomatoes than my steel playing. Let's hope I don't have to rely on either one to put food on the table!

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 28 Apr 2021 4:33 am

The late, great Dan Hicks may have been listening when he composed this tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTElxrjbmY0

James Sission · Post by **James Sission** » 28 Apr 2021 3:53 pm

Sorry for injecting my attempt at humor, but the post seemed a little fishy to me.

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 28 Apr 2021 7:24 pm

So when the whales want to play music, they join an orca-stra?

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 29 Apr 2021 4:32 am

Don, I enjoyed all your comments. Great humor!

Bill Sinclair · Post by **Bill Sinclair** » 29 Apr 2021 6:31 am

Anybody remember the Paul Winter Consort from the 80's? The new age saxophonist would incorporate whale sounds, packs of wolves howling and other natural voicings into his compositions, often imitating them with his soprano and alto saxes. Some of it was pretty cool.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 29 Apr 2021 7:06 am

I believe he still plays at St John Cathedral in manhattan. He used to do a yearly concert. I attended one year, and it was amazing to hear his sax reverberate through the church.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 30 Apr 2021 3:17 am

I Have the CD by Paul Winter, got it back during the Windham Hills days.

Allan Revich · Post by **Allan Revich** » 19 Jun 2021 12:45 pm

Wally Pfeifer wrote:The latest National Geographic magazine has printed music that scientists have recorded from whales.
Check it out . Have any of you seen it and played it. It would be interested to see if there is a melody or ? 8

Wally, do you have a copy? It would be cool to share a shot of one of the pages, or a link to where the score can be found online. Also, given that very few instruments are as capable of microtones as ours is, it might even be possible play it from the score.

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