Strange musical question.

[Kitty Herder]

Do any of you find that certain singers' voices, or certain musical instruments seem to resonate with your sternum, making it feel like it's vibrating in tune with the sound? I'm not describing it very well, but if you've felt it, you know what I mean.

The violin sometimes has that effect on me, and there is a particular singer whose voice consistently has that effect, and another who sometimes does to a lesser degree.

The reason I ask is that the two people I've discussed this with in my life both thought I was nuts. Maybe I am nuts, but I figured I should ask a larger sample of people about it before making that determination.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Bodhrain's do it and bagpipes

It's a primal thing. They're basically designed to get people all revved up.

[Kitty Herder]

5. Yes, it is primal.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. But I think it's a personal thing, that some instruments/voices do that for some people and others work for others. I don't have that response to bagpipes, for example. Some people, apparently have never felt it with any sound. Perhaps others feel it with all music?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. I listen to a lot of celtic drum/bagpipe music like Clan an drumma

It's basically war music. Much faster than a pipe/drum band plays.

[Xipe Totec]

19. This voice does it to me

Patxi Andion, With all the Sea Behind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1mkABQBfs0

Reminds me of the voice of the Rusian singer Vladimir Visotsky

The Wolf Hunt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ2E4cf46nw

[MrsBrady]

2. maybe there is a certain

pitch that is the resonant frequency to your sternum.

in other words, that exact note produced by some violins and that certain voice may have the same "frequency" as your sternum...so it vibrates.

I've never had that feeling, but I supposed that is what could be happening.

[Kitty Herder]

6. That's what I've always thought. nt

[DevonRex]

3. Voices that do it for me: Neil Young, Justin Currie, Al Green, Neil Finn.

And Glenn Phillips, too. And the lead singer in Tool - can't remember his name right now.

Instruments: Violin, dulcimer, penny whistle.

[Kitty Herder]

14. Ya know, Neil Young comes pretty close to having that effect on me.

I get just a tiny, little vibration in the sternum from him.

The singer who consistently gets me is Raul Malo. I don't know why. I remember the first time I heard "Oh What a Thrill" on the radio in my friend's car as a teenager. I was awestruck and have been ever since. I know a lot of people don't "get" the appeal of the Mavericks and Raul Malo, but Raul just does it for me. What can I say?

(edited to add: There are actually many singers who have the tiny kind of vibrating sternum effect on me that Neil Young does. But the effect that Raul Malo has on me is in an entirely different class. The only other sound that has the same effect on me as his voice is the violin, but that depends on what's being played. But the right sounds from a violin can have far more impact than Raul.)

[DevonRex]

15. I don't know who that is, but I'm gonna find out now. I absolutely love

great singing voices. Funny but there aren't any women on my list. But there is one who comes close. Lorena McKennitt. She's a new-age sort of Celtic singer from Canada (just in case you didn't know who she was) that I listen to on occasion.

Anyway, I'm thinking there's a hormonal thing going on in addition to the sternum thing since all my favorites are guys. :)

[Kitty Herder]

16. He's sort of country, sort of latin, mostly just unclassifiable. Here's some youtube links:

"Oh, What a Thrill" from the nineties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuczPwLHb8

A version of Blue Moon that I not only don't hate, but absolutely can't live without:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bKUBNFhW3g

Dance the Night Away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w3ku2QArT0&feature=related

And finally, just Raul Malo and his guitar, giving Eddie Arnold a run for his money and making me feel all quivery inside:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72b18BTLYd8

Yeah, I'm a fan. :blush:

There maybe something to your hormone theory, as all the voices that have that effect on me to any degree are male, too. But you know, I don't actually find Raul Malo attractive aside from his music.

[ipfilter]

4. Is this something like the brown sound?

[Kitty Herder]

7. I dunno. (Off to google brown sound.) nt

[Kitty Herder]

8. Wait, do you mean brown sound or brown noise? nt

[ipfilter]

9. After a quick google, it was brown note.

It was a South Park thing.

:)

[Kitty Herder]

11. Oh. Definitely NOT that same thing.

:-)

[geardaddy]

10. lmao

:rofl:

[Karenina]

12. NO, you're NOT nuts. Just receptive and intuitive.

:hug:

[Kitty Herder]

13. Aaaw. Thanks for that.

:hug:

[RagAss]

18. Yes...this tune for some reason....since I first heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9qbNwxeqvQ

[Kitty Herder]

20. Oooohh.... I like.

Thanks for posting that.

[RagAss]

22. Yeh...it's like a prayer ain't it?

[Lil Missy]

21. "O Holy Night" by Neil Sedaka gives me chills

[qwertyMike]

23. Leonard Cohen

also the sound of a Cello

[applegrove]

24. Some songs, voices resonate with my inner ear. Not my sternum.