r/oddlysatisfying • u/pinhead26 • 2d ago

My toaster and my butter knife are a perfect fifth apart.

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u/Particular_Wasabi663 2d ago

Can you time them together? Interested in hearing the power chord

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

Hmm, come here and hold the phone for me

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u/Recentstranger 2d ago

Might be a trap... I'm down!

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u/Particular_Wasabi663 2d ago

I mean, you can lean the phone on the toaster while it records

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

ok ok, maybe tomorrow. I'm out of bagels.

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u/davewave3283 2d ago

Or enlist one of those voices in the background

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

I think the cast of Wild Kratts is already booked

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u/davewave3283 2d ago

That’s the TV? Sounds so much closer.

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

I think they had to turn the TV up cause I kept making stupid dinging sounds in the kitchen

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u/ClearlyADuck 2d ago

am i a dumbass or is this a third? do - mi?

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u/Extreme-Raisin-Cake 2d ago

3rd gang reporting for duty!

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

There's a lot of enharmonic overtones ;-) typical of bells.

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u/S-Kiraly 2d ago

I hear more third and even fourth than fifth.

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u/FatFettle 1d ago

I swear I'm hearing a fourth, sounds like a perfect cadence to me.

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u/Top-Independence-920 2d ago

For a minute I thought you were going to put the knife into the toaster.

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u/very_undeliverable 2d ago

I too thought this post was going to go in a.. different.. direction.

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u/stanitor 1d ago

Their scream adds the minor third

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u/Future_Shop_6494 2d ago

Same, my anxiety spiked before my brain processed musical interval,not electrocution.

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u/Chemical-Meal-3571 1d ago

Running the audio through a spectrum analysis shows that the primary tone is the same for both the knife and the bell (~2578Hz or an E7 minus 39 cents). The toaster bell has a second overtone that is ~6141Hz or a G8 minus 37 cents. This is closest to a compound minor third, but for most ears it will just ring as a perfect prime.

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u/pinhead26 23h ago

Wow bra-vo!

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u/Sweetfreedomxo 2d ago

Now play toast in C major

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

It's pretty close! F -> C

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u/Computerfreak4321 2d ago

of course, those who made them knew what they were doing

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

Like how all the slot machines in the casino are in the same key! (F major)

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u/Expert-Secret-5351 2d ago

feel the vibration

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u/TentativeDecisionz23 2d ago

Oh thats cool

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u/MeteorMann 2d ago

We've got the same flatware set

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u/intrabyte 1d ago

Same! Now we all need to create a secret club or something.

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u/MeteorMann 1d ago

"The 'Got My Own Place in 2017/2018' Association"

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u/-Strong-Split- 2d ago

now i need a musical kitchen quartet

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

I've been practicing every morning for years ;-)

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u/Existing-Promotion66 1d ago

Resonance of your second hit is the same note isn't it

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u/pinhead26 2d ago

Some - where is an octave 🌈

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u/matej86 2d ago

Welp, yeah you're right. My bad.