Chalice Well - a listening experience
With all that water, Chalice well is quite a sensory garden as well as a visually attractive and peaceful pace to reflect. It is an interesting listening experience, and let’s start off with a musician’s insight into the wellhead at the top of the gardens, furthest away from the main road. Chalice Well wellhead the sound of the Wellhead If you get it to yourself take a listen to the sound of the water in the well-head, there is a distinct tone to it. Your browser does not support the audio element. Steve Gardiner, a musician, wrote 1 that he hears mainly overtones 7 and 9 in the sound of the wellhead, with a fundamental between E flat and D. Not having his perfect pitch I analysed the peaks of the recording at 109Hz and 139.2 Hz. Dividing these by 7 and 9 respectively give 15.57 and 15.5 Hz for the fundamental, which is pretty close and within the experimental error. That gives me a fundamental of half of B 0 . I am intrigued as to whether this changes over ti