#6

Part 3

"He that placed the ear. . ."

-- Psalm 95:9

It is often said that those who cannot make music have a tin ear.  This makes some sense due to the very limited range of sound that can be produced on a piece of tin.

Those who study such matters claim that there are 264 semi-tone vibrations required to run through the do-re-mi musical scale.  We are told that those notes that harmonize with each other are called music; those that don't are classified as noise (where does that leave rap?).  Even to the trained ear not all of these vibrations can be heard.

Symphony orchestra conductors look at the violin as the instrument that can produce the widest range of musical vibrations.  Turns out that the violin is a distant second to an instrument created by God -- the human voice.

Symphony musicians take their profession very seriously.  They are well-versed in all things musical right down to knowing the number of vibrations between musical notes; they're not all the same.  In 1834 the musical conservatory at Stuttgart came up with the number of vibrations between notes which was adopted by the Paris conservatory in 1859.  The rest of the world has followed suit in the time since, providing their musicians with the following information.  There are 33 vibrations between do and re; 33 between re and mi; mi to fa is 22; fa to so is 44; so to la is 44; la to ti is 55 and 

ti to do is 33.

It doesn't take much of a mathematician to determine that all of these numbers have something in common.  They can be divided by the number 11.  God has branded music with this number.

I started out this 3-part series with a story about my Mother's ability to make music and about how that played a part in developing my Christian belief.  I thank God for this gift.

If you're so inclined, click on the link below; listen and enjoy.

Richard

'Who Do You Think Would Believe Such a Thing?'