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Re: Musical notes, was Re: Hot, Cold, and Temperature

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, March 27, 2004, 19:11
Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:

> Maybe it's because high notes are more likely to be > produced by flying animals (birds, bats) or tiny > (lighter) ones (mice...), and deep notes by heavy > animals like bears, mammoths and so on ? (1) I think > our ancestors knew little about sound frequencies. > Anyway, even if considering frequencies, why should > "high" frequencies be high, and low ones, low ? There > seems to be little spatial meaning in sound. > > (1) But one could also argue that thunder, though > being a deep sound, seems to come from the sky...
I read somewhere that the identifications light=high pitch and heavy=low pitch were universal among humans. Anyone know of any cultures/languages that break that? Andreas