{"id":37,"date":"2009-05-20T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/?p=37"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:42:59","slug":"physics-of-sound-cellist-michael-fitzpatrick-on-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/video\/interviews\/physics-of-sound-cellist-michael-fitzpatrick-on-vibrations\/37\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellist Michael Fitzpatrick on Vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-37-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/4-michael-fitzpatrick.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/4-michael-fitzpatrick.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/4-michael-fitzpatrick.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Michael Fitzpatrick<\/strong>: One of the research endeavors that I took was to look into the ideal sound wave rate, the idea of a vibrato wave, of oscillation, and there was a study that analyzed the great musicians of the past 20th century: Caruso, Heifetz, Casals, and they all have a vibrato wave or rate that was about 7 or 8 cycles per second.<\/p>\n<p>So you have this\u2014ning, ning, ning, ning\u2014ning, ning, ning, ning&#8211; ning, ning, ning, ning\u2014and the physicist will attest to that we are entrained to the vibration that is dominant in our environment sonically.<\/p>\n<p>So I was then curious to know if somehow this was a deeper universal rhythm that they were tuning into. 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