Crazy-Amazing Facts About Music
- None of The Beatles Could Read Music.
- Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
- Flowers can grow faster by listening to musics.
- The type of musics you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
- Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.
- The world’s longest concert goes so slow, it will last 639 years
- The world’s most expensive musical instrument, a Stradivarius violin, was sold in 2011 for US$15.9 million.
- Loud musics can make a person drink more in less time.
- The song Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanks giving.
- The original lyrics of the “Happy Birthday to You” song were “Good Morning to You”.
- A song that gets stuck in your head is called an “earworm”.
- Children who study music tend to have larger vocabularies and more advanced reading skills than their peers who do not participate in music lessons.
- Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
- The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.
- The world’s largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records.
- A grand piano can be played faster than an upright (spinet) piano.
- A piano covers the full spectrum of all orchestra instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo.
- Music can reduce anxiety, lower blood pressure and decrease stress hormones
- The smallest guitar in the world is 10 micrometres long with strings 50 nanometres (100 atoms) wide.
- Yamaha, established in 1887 was the first piano manufacturer in Japan.
- The world’s largest piano is a Challen Concert Grand. This piano is 11 feet long, has a total string tension of over 30 tons and weighs more than a ton!!
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