Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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A 440 Microwave Beep
Attaining perfect pitch one thawed morsel at a time
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Surely the annoying beep that my microwave sounds everytime the cheese on my turkey sandwich is melted has its own pitch. It sure would be helpful for ear training purposes is if told me what note it was playing, this way I might get a single pitch hammered into my music-and-turkey inclined mind. Therefore, a microwave or any beeping appliance that produces an electronically perfect whatevernote every time a normally annoying beep would occur.

jellydoughnut, Jul 18 2008

The article I mentioned http://forteantimes.../lost-in-space.html
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       I sense downloadable ringtones for microwaves in the future.

normzone, Jul 18 2008
  

       I rely on the nearly omnipresent 60 Hz hum (a slightly flat b natural.) UKers may prefer a slightly sharp G (50 Hz.)

csea, Jul 18 2008
  

       The microwave could even test you. It gives you 3 beeps and you use the numeric keypad to guess which one was the true 440 A

phundug, Jul 18 2008
  

       Well, that's a simple divide by 5,568,181.81 (recurring) from the magnetron. Doddle.   

       "Play the pipe tones ......"

8th of 7, Jul 18 2008
  

       //Well, that's a simple divide by 5,568,181.81 (recurring) from the magnetron. Doddle.//   

       Slightly off-topic but this comment reminded me of this article about a couple of Italians who listened in to early US and Russian spacecraft transmissions. They figured out what frequency the US were transmitting on by calculating the length of the antenna in a photograph of a satellite. (Pretty interesting article.)

imaginality, Jul 18 2008
  

       Nuclear, Microwave Song, x-ray, The Power

Voice, Jul 18 2008
  

       + for perfect pitch products.

xandram, Jul 20 2008
  

       Like pavolv's dog, evrytoime you hear something in A, you start drooling Microwave ringtones are next

giligamesh, Jul 21 2008
  
      
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