We use the term “higher” to describe notes of smaller wavelengths, and this term seems strangely fitting in a way that I don’t quite understand. For example, when a band is playing heavy bass notes and then a singer comes in with treble notes, it seems like the vocal notes are actually physically *higher* (like, in the room or in my ears) than the bass notes.
Is this a real thing? Or am I just imagining it? Or is it just subconscious association with the words “high” and “low” which we use to describe these notes? Or maybe I’m just noticing that speakers and venues usually put the woofers on the bottom and the tweeters on the top?
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I know what you mean, though I do not know the answer as to why. It seems most replies here are failing to understand what you mean and are not answering the question at all. It might be one of those things where certain people simply perceive things differently than others. Like some people can taste colours. But in this case we “see” musical notes relative to each other in space, but with our ears, lol. I also hear notes as if they are physically stacked according to their “height”. They also feel as though they vary in thickness and density. Low notes are, well, low, and wider. More loosely held together. Super high notes are up there, thin and very tight. I also perceive them as moving at different speeds, in a line. lower is slower, higher is faster. I’m sure that’s my brain’s interpretation of the notes’ frequency. The human brain and it’s varying perceptual abilities is crazy.
But I don’t know the answer to your question.
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