When I first heard this on GMA 2 days ago, and again yesterday morning, I could distinctly hear Laurel, spoken by a man's baritone voice. Then last night, my wife was at her desk in another room, and she kept repeating the word over and over. She heard Laurel, but in my chair in the living room, about 50 feet away, I distinctly heard Yanni, spoken in an woman's low alto voice who was a smoker. First, she walked to me, with the computer repeating the word over and over, and she still heard Laurel. But then I walked into the room where computer was, and I kept hearing Yanni until I got to within about 10 feet of the computer, when all of a sudden the voice changed to the baritone, saying Laurel. I backed away, but I still kept hearing Laurel, even when I went back to my chair in the living room. This was at 11 PM last night. I had only tuned one piano yesterday at 9 AM.
I don't understand it.
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Willem "Wim" Blees, RPT
Mililani, HI 96789
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-18-2018 09:19
From: Karl Roeder
Subject: Yanny/Laurel
The twiitersphere and the larger netiverse have been abuzz this week with a bit of audio trickery. There is a clip which has the words Laurel and Yanny repeating over and over. Some folks hear Laurel and some hear Yanny. The first time I heard it, in the morning before work, I could hear both though the higher pitched word Yanny was dominant. After a few seconds of listening I realized that each word was coming from a different end of the frequency/pitch spectrum. Interestingly that night I when I showed it to my wife and daughter the lower pitched word Laurel was far and away the dominant word while all either of them could hear was Yanny. The difference being that I'd been tuning all day. I listened again the next morning with the same result. It seems that I train myself to filter out higher frequencies while I'm working and have to actively listen for them at days end. I wear ear plugs when I work and have had my hearing tested recently revealing no loss in the last few decades. So I have to think that whatever is happening at day's end is in the mind and not the ears. I'm curious if others have the same experience. I'm including a link to an interactive player that let's one change which frequencies predominate. Give it a try.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html
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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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