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The Song of the Great Pyramid

The Grand Gallery inside the Great Pyramid is 1881 inches along its base length. 1881 is 19 x 90 or 11 x 99, so it is an interesting number to explore. Since one of my areas of expertise is acoustics and the properties of sound in enclosed spaces, it was natural for me to explore the relevance of the Grand Gallery as a resonant chamber.

1881 x 7 = 13,167 inches, which is the precise speed of sound in inches per second at a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and that is the constant temperature inside the Great Pyramid. The speed of sound used for scientific purposes is 12,800 inches per second, which is its velocity at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Celsius, in still, dry air. This means that the Grand Gallery is tuned to resonate at a fundamental frequency of 7 c.p.s. (cycles per second). 1881 inches is the wavelength of 7 c.p.s. which is the fundamental of 'A', or, put another way, it is seven octaves below middle 'A' of 448 c.p.s.

7 c.p.s. has been referred to as 'the death frequency', because it has the properties, when focused with sufficient amplitude, to destroy buildings or scramble your brain within your skull. It is also very close to the Earth's fundamental frequency, but that will be explored elsewhere. However we have been given evidence that the G.G. is tuned to a precise pitch, 'A', and that consequently the builders were aware of the properties of sound and its measure and that the inch was again fundamental and harmonic. To prove the point, here is a short list of wavelengths, in whole numbers of inches, divided into the given speed of sound of 13,167 inches per second. I will round out the number to 13,170 for convenience, since it is the wavelength of the note that is the constant and the speed of sound that is the variable.

s.o.s.	wavelength	frequency	note
13170 -:-	20 ins.	= 658.5	= ‘E’
13170 -:-	21 ins.	= 627	= ‘E flat’
13170 -:-	25 ins	= 526.8	= ‘C’
13170 -:-	30 ins.	= 439	= ‘A’ *
13170 -:-	40 ins.	= 329.25	= ‘E’
13170 -:-	50 ins.	= 263.4	= ‘C’ (middle)

* (concert pitch for an orchestra)

I hope you see how it works, since it will be easier to understand how I constructed the tune that the Great Pyramid plays. Each course of stone of the G.P. is a different thickness and was measured in detail by Petrie in 1881. By taking each course measure in inches and dividing it into the speed of sound in inches we come up with a note, as in the table above. There are 203 courses remaining on the G.P., which when divided by 7 gives us 29 groups of seven notes and we have to guess at the number of courses that are missing from the apex. Fortunately it is quite easy to work out when the rules of music and geometry are applied. Another 21 courses would give us 32 groups of 7, or 32 bars of music and 224 notes or courses. 224 is an 'A' as found in the Grand Gallery.

As you will hear in the music the notes fall into obvious 7 note arpeggios and we have played it in 4/4 time giving each note an eighth value and included an eighth note rest at the end of each bar, it could easily be played in 7/4 time and sound even more Eastern than it does already. You must understand that when I first approached the Pyramid from this point of view I was not expecting what appeared. I will admit to bending a few of these notes to fit the piano tuning but in reality the amount of compromise I have made would be barely noticeable from a listening point of view and you must also realise that this began only as a mathematical exercise. However, it appears from subsequent work that I have done that the principles I have applied, music, are essential to uncovering the ultimate purpose of the Giza Pyramids as they describe the Earth.

Composer Rick Taylor will be producing several versions of the tune which will be available on the website soon, in the meantime, here's one we prepared earlier;

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