Many people, including famous artists and poets, painters and musicians, and even Chinese royalty and Buddhist monks, enjoyed keeping singing pets.
Now you might be thinking about canaries and whistling bids and talking parrots, but the music I speak of is much more natural than that, as it falls along the same lines as the wild birds.
Often these singing pets were kept in golden cages or beautiful wooden or bamboo boxes. Their owners loved the singing to help them relax during hours of meditation or exercises. These singing pets are musical to the human ear because some of their carrier frequencies are relatively pure and low, and others, during the day, may sound buzzy or raspy or even whiney because their carrier frequencies are less pure and higher, according to many entomologists.
The singing pets I speak of are the crickets and the katydids, and cicadas. The crickets and katydids fill the night air with the sound of a certain kind of music, that is different than the ciacadas that sing in daylight hours.
Crickets and kaydids belong to the Orthoptera species, the often called canaries of the insect world. This includes grasshoppers and locust, and walking sticks.
They make music by rubbing their forewings together or by scraping their hind legs against their forewings or abdomens,
The cicadas, which are of the Homoptera species, and is characterized by insects with piercing sucking mouthparts and membranous wings that are held like a roof over their bodies.
Before thinking their music is just for entertainment, understand that these insects are sending messages to one-another and the distinctive sounds we hear are for their courtship and territoral claims.
So plug in and listen to crickets and katydids at night and cicadas by day and you will have a form of natural music programming, that is as down to earth as it gets and provides a round-the-clock insect serenade that is not available in your favorite music store or on the radio.
Now you might be thinking about canaries and whistling bids and talking parrots, but the music I speak of is much more natural than that, as it falls along the same lines as the wild birds.
Often these singing pets were kept in golden cages or beautiful wooden or bamboo boxes. Their owners loved the singing to help them relax during hours of meditation or exercises. These singing pets are musical to the human ear because some of their carrier frequencies are relatively pure and low, and others, during the day, may sound buzzy or raspy or even whiney because their carrier frequencies are less pure and higher, according to many entomologists.
The singing pets I speak of are the crickets and the katydids, and cicadas. The crickets and katydids fill the night air with the sound of a certain kind of music, that is different than the ciacadas that sing in daylight hours.
Crickets and kaydids belong to the Orthoptera species, the often called canaries of the insect world. This includes grasshoppers and locust, and walking sticks.
They make music by rubbing their forewings together or by scraping their hind legs against their forewings or abdomens,
The cicadas, which are of the Homoptera species, and is characterized by insects with piercing sucking mouthparts and membranous wings that are held like a roof over their bodies.
Before thinking their music is just for entertainment, understand that these insects are sending messages to one-another and the distinctive sounds we hear are for their courtship and territoral claims.
So plug in and listen to crickets and katydids at night and cicadas by day and you will have a form of natural music programming, that is as down to earth as it gets and provides a round-the-clock insect serenade that is not available in your favorite music store or on the radio.
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