This Is What Musical Notes Actually Look Like

“To investigate these patterns, he rigged up a contraption involving a frequency generator on his laptop, a rebuilt amp with a speaker pointing upward into a plastic vitrine filled with ink-black water, and a guitar tuner…” By Heather Sparks.
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