Adding super high and super low notes - ultrasound treble and infrasound bass for pets
I added very low and very high notes beyond the capacities of human hearing (such as G11 and C-3) by going to notes -> add interval. Technically these are now G14 and C-6 because I added 22ma and 22mb lines! I wonder if dogs and cats can hear such notes.
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Frankly, I'd stick with a dog whistle. :-)
Those ultrasounds (and infrasounds) are out of the ranges of the recorded musical instrument samples found in MuseScore's soundfonts and are not playable.
Of course, you could use something like a frequency generator to entertain your pets (though at great peril to the speakers you use).
Regards.
In reply to Frankly, I'd stick with a dog by Jm6stringer
Just made a joke score about this, and you're right! MuseScore made these notes silent. To get out of the hearing range of all animals (some bats can hear up to 200 kHz), you would need to combine a 15ma treble clef (the highest clef in MuseScore) with a 36ma line - signifying 5 octaves above what's written (the 36ma line can't even be found on MuseScore!) to avoid overlapping lines due to extremely high written notes.
Dog & Cat Repellent - A Simple, (mostly) Ultrasonic Piece by JokeScores
https://musescore.com/user/7606321/scores/1792571
In reply to Just made a joke score about by JokeScores
Ummm - if they're beyond the range of human hearing - how do you know they are silent????
On related notes, have you seen this?
https://musescore.com/thateuphoniumguy/the-lowest-thing-on-musescore
In reply to On related notes, have you by Isaac Weiss
I just made something very similar to that minutes before reading this post; made just the opposite - very high notes. However, MuseScore made it inaudible past C9.
In reply to I just made something very by JokeScores
MuseScore didn't make it inaudible - the soundfont did.
It would be perfectly possible to produce a soundfont which produced ultrasound frequencies, but these are dangerous things to mess with.
They can certainly cause headaches, and prolonged exposure has been postulated to cause anything from severe depression to death - just think about their effect on kidney stones.
In reply to MuseScore didn't make it by ChurchOrganist
Don't worry, your average musician is unlikely to have audio equipment that can pump out such very high frequencies with any power.