Well, this is interesting.

On a forum I frequent (and tend to lurk around) someone posted a topic regarding hearing, e.g. pitches that one can or cannot hear. The subject of this discussion had to do with a mobile phone ringtone or something that is supposedly at a high enough frequency that adults cannot hear it but teenagers can.

Someone posted a link to this series of tones ranging from 10KHz to 25KHz and mentioned that it could be useful in finding one's upper limit.

I found mine at 14K. I'm not really sure what this means, except that I can't hear high-pitched tones.

What's yours?

The strangest thing happened this weekend within ten minutes of the Renegades going on the field for our first performance. We (the pit) were taking keyboards and other equipment with wheels down to get onto the field when the time came, but gravity had a different idea. Seeing as we had to take a strange down then slightly up then down again kind of path to get to the field, it was the perfect chance for something unfortunate to occur.

Given the circumstances, I should have probably not moved to a place that was in any way in front of the xylophone. Little did I know at the time that when equipped with crotales, a cymbal, and one of the [infamous?] Dresden toms that xylophones run amok. This lack of knowledge proved to be my downfall. No, literally.

On an amusing note, though, I counted seven bruises from the fall. Only two of them have any associated pain, and even that is not severe enough to cause massive (or tiny) issues. And out of all the things one can get run over by, it had to be a xylophone run amok. While it was definitely not funny at the time of the incident, by the time we had gotten back to the equipment trailer from the field, I was amused.