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FUN AND TRIVIA |
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Did you know that...? |
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Most toilets flush in the key of E flat. |
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Some sources claim that cows give more milk when listening to music! |
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A duck's quack has no echo! |
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The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of� F. |
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Two of the loudest instruments in the orchestra are the trombone and the piccolo. |
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The average piano has 230 strings. |
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Bach had twenty children! |
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The human ear can distinguish over 1500 tones. The smallest recognizable difference between two tones is a 1/9th of a whole tone, and is called a comma. |
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Music Quotes... |
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"How wonderful opera would be if it had no singers!" - Rossini |
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"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain |
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"He has Van Gogh's ear for music" - Orson Welles |
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"Since he was a little lazy, Mozart did not begin composing operas until he was twelve." - Victor Borge |
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end!" - Stravinsky |
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"Your manuscript is both good and original - but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good!" - Johnstone |
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"Play Mozart in memory of me..." - Chopin's last words. |
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Please send me your musical facts and trivia for this page! If possible, please can you also send me the source of your information so it can be verified before being put on this page. Thankyou very much. |
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