Chapter 3:

Hiding Under The Covers, Listening For The Monsters

To access the pdf file for all the video links and journal citations for the items in the book, click on the pdf icon for "Chapter References & Comments” at the top of the page, next to Armando Armadillo. (Go to www.Adobe.com for a free pdf reader.) To access the updates and new items (not in the book), click on any "update" or "new" in the following list.

• 3.1 Howling of the wind
• 3.2 Singing of telephone wires and pine needles  update Feb 2011
• 3.3 Whistles and whistling
• 3.4 Speaking and singing   update Feb 2012
• 3.5 Speaking with helium
• 3.6 Throat singing
• 3.7 Snoring
• 3.8 Purring and roaring
• 3.9 Short Story: Sound from a Parasaurolophus dinosaur  update Aug 2007  Oct 2007  May 2014
• 3.10 Sounds of tigers and elephants
• 3.11 Bullfrog croaking
• 3.12 Crickets and spiny lobsters
• 3.13 Frog playing a tree; cricket playing a burrow
• 3.14 Attack of the Australian cicadas
• 3.15 Penguin voices
• 3.16 Whale clicks
• 3.17 Reflection tone
• 3.18 Long-distance sound
• 3.19 Acoustic shadows
• 3.20 Hearing the Soviet subs
• 3.21 Cheerleader’s horn, foghorns
• 3.22 Direction of a whisper
• 3.23 Doppler shift
• 3.24 Bat finding an insect       update April 2007
• 3.25 Bat finding a flower
• 3.26 Hearing underwater
• 3.27 Cocktail-party effect    update Oct 2006
• 3.28 Sound emitted by the ears
• 3.29 Music in your head
• 3.30 Noise-induced hearing loss
• 3.31 Sound enhanced by noise
• 3.32 Stethoscopes and respiratory sounds
• 3.33 Tightening guitar strings and rubber bands
• 3.34 Bowing a violin
• 3.35 Flashing brilliance of a violin
• 3.36 Conch shells
• 3.37 Didgeridoo
• 3.38 Silo quaking and honking
• 3.39 Singing corrugated tubes
• 3.40 Coffee mug acoustics
• 3.41 Bottle resonance     update Jan 2009
• 3.42 Fingers on a chalk board
• 3.43 Rubbing wineglasses    update Mar 2008   Dec 2014
• 3.44 Shattering wineglasses with voice    update Nov 2007
• 3.45 Murmuring brooks and rain noise
• 3.46 Jar and beaker resonance
• 3.47 Rumbling from plumbing
• 3.48 Knuckle cracking    update Feb 2016
• 3.49 Korotkoff sounds
• 3.50 Attack of the killer shrimp   update Oct 2006
• 3.51 Sounds of boiling water
• 3.52 Food crushing sounds
• 3.53 Snap, crackle, and pop    update Nov 2013
• 3.54 Sonic booms from aircraft and bullets  update June 2007  Oct 2010   Jul 2011
• 3.55 Sonic booms from train tunnels
• 3.56 Thunder
• 3.57 Brontides---mysterious booms from the sky
• 3.58 Rockfall and tree downing
• 3.59 Popping bull whips and wet towels
• 3.60 Coughing and sneezing
• 3.61 Acoustics of rooms and concert halls
• 3.62 Whispering galleries in various enclosures
• 3.63 Whispering gallery in St. Paul’s Cathedral   update Apr 2015
• 3.64 Echoes from walls, corners, and forest groves
• 3.65 Musical echoes from stairs and fences    update Nov 2006
• 3.66 Short story: Acoustics of ancient structures   update Nov 2006
• 3.67 Singing in the shower
• 3.68 Noisy upstairs neighbor
• 3.69 Booming sand and squeaking sand   update Oct 2006
• 3.70 Cracking ice and bergy seltzer
• 3.71 Audibility through snow
• 3.72 Sounds of walking in snow
• 3.73 “Can you hear the shape of a drum?”
• 3.74 Infrasound
• 3.75 Sounds of corn growing
• 3.76 Snapping cloth sounds
• 3.77 Culvert whistlers     update Jun 2012
• 3.78 Slinky whistlers
• 3.79 Rifle-shot noises in permafrost regions
• 3.80 Hearing auroras and fireballs
• 3.81 Australian bullroarer       Click on new to get the following new items (not in the book)
• 3.82 Strange sounds of stone hitting ice     Nov 2006    Jan 2013
• 3.83 Sounds of putting     Dec 2006
• 3.84 Fizzing in a glass    Jan 2007
• 3.85 Sound mirrors to detect incoming enemy aircraft     Mar 2007
• 3.86 Acoustic sculpture    June 2007
• 3.87 Sounds of splashing    June 2007
• 3.88 Musical roads   Oct 2008
• 3.89 Whoopee cushions   Mar 2009
• 3.90 Blowing raspberries  Sep 2009
• 3.91 Vegetable and fruit musical instruments  Jan 2010
• 3.92 Turning rude and crude noises into music   Sep 2010 
• 3.93 Pub trick --- popping a plastic straw   Dec 2011
• 3.94 Cell phone camera inside a guitar    May 2014