Utterly useless info

[skinbath]

I was watching a programme on T.V the other night about black holes and decided to impart some utterly useless info.......for any musicians out there......

When enough matter is packed tightly enough around a black hole,a "ring tone" is produced that equates to the note Bb 57 octaves below middle C.....any wind or brass players fancy giving that a go......

Concert pitch "A" = 440 Hertz........anyone know how the above would equate on the frequency scale?

[Martina W.]

skinbath said:

Concert pitch "A" = 440 Hertz........anyone know how the above would equate on the frequency scale?

Middle C is 261,626 Hertz.
For every octave you go down the frequency is halved.

[skinbath]

Middle C is 261,626 Hertz.
For every octave you go down the frequency is halved.

You`re right martinaw....being thoroughly ridiculous here and using modern standardisation....
A=440Hz ,whole tone above,B=493Hz (my rounding off), I`ll round off Bb at approx 466hz....reduce by half 58 times gives us something that equates to a very low rumble indeed.....

I was just intrigued as to how and why those in the relevant astronomical/cosmic fields involved would use this information..... any thoughts?

edit...It may be that I`ve looked at this in a back to front fashion,i.e...this is the technique used to illustrate the presence of said matter....