{"id":11368,"date":"2021-05-08T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:42:05","slug":"barbershop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/08\/barbershop\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbershop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/05\/barbershop-quartets-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from SPIN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seventh Heaven<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Barbershop quartets are more than meets the ear<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by Jonathan Rowe\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-515020628-1620189312.jpg\" alt=\"Met Quartet Servicing Barber Shop Owner\"\/><figcaption><em><small>CREDIT:<\/small>\u00a0Bettmann \/ Contributor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t let a century\u2019s worth of pop culture fool you \u2014 the best of the best barbershop quartets have five voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, four striped-shirt, straw-hatted, bow-tied\u00a0<em>bodies<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 but five voices. The second tenor sets the stage with a lead melody line, which the first tenor lays a high harmony on. The baritone singer handles mid-range, while the bass, the deepest voice of the four, lays a solid foundation. But when the overtones of these four pitch-perfect voices unite and merge, an invisible fifth voice emerges from the ether, an everywhere-but-nowhere aural apparition not unlike the effect of Buddhist monks chanting in a massive ancient temple. This unified fifth-voice phenomenon is known as harmonic coincidence, though it is nowhere near a coincidence, accident or fluke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summoning what former Barbershop Harmony Society President Art Merrill calls, \u201cthe voice of the angels,\u201d takes well more than four peppy singers with dreamy voices. In fact, should one of the four mortals as much as drift off-pitch, the heavenly house of cards drops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/05\/barbershop-quartets-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at SPIN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SPIN Seventh Heaven Barbershop quartets are more than meets the ear by Jonathan Rowe\u00a0 Don\u2019t let a century\u2019s worth of pop culture fool you \u2014 the best of the best barbershop quartets have five voices. Sure, four striped-shirt, straw-hatted, bow-tied\u00a0bodies\u00a0\u2014 but five voices. The second tenor sets the stage with a lead melody line, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}