Talk:Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict

message: I what the scottish dude speaking a 'thick scottish accent' or is it the actual 'scots language'? (not gaelic, scots which evolved from the same root as engish so is quite similar.) I know a lot of people who thought it was gaelic because they couldn't understand it, so possibly this could be scots, i know there is a 'defined' difference between 'scotched english' and scots. Possibly a scots expert would know? (WM)131.111.8.101
*It's Scottish-dialect English. Several readings of the whole text appear on the web. With this to hand, what is actually been said becomes a lot clearer. Martyn Smith 22:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language 

message: I've found sources indicating that the message was spoken by Gilmour, as well as sources indicating it was Waters. I decided to mention the possibility of both in the article, and provides links backing up both claims. Albrozdude 08:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hidden Message 

message: Why does this article have a link to the list of songs with long titles if it does not itself appear in it?
Seems a bit odd.
Sabalon 04:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the list of long song titles? 

message: There's an issue with the part that mentions the message; it's actually "This is pretty avant-garde, isn't it?" followed by "I wanna quit"; to hear that, you need to speed up the track. You can check this in, say, the A Tree Full of Secrets RoIO.
67.37.178.16 11:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Message 

message: this track is undoubtedly pure experimental music, with strong influence from musique concrete, the same applies to the other tracks of 2nd LP, only Gilmour`s song is merely psychedelic rock. So, does anyone agree that we should change the genre statement here?--Doktor Who 00:32, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Genre

message: ....the original real-time recorded tapes. Do they still exist? Martyn Smith 22:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I guess, as many people believe, that musicians normally are not used to give out information pertaining to some of their works, if such works involve "very personal tricks" ;). This is nevertheless just the point of view of a number of music fans around the world, not the truth itself, so it would be worth to search further.--Doktor Who 02:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Has anybody ever heard

message: The article says that "The high pitched squeaking which is repeated every couple of seconds from about 1:30 to about 2:10 is apparently Waters saying 'Bring back my guitar' speeded up by a factor of 10." However, when I slowed this squeak down, I heard nothing that sounded like anybody saying something. But when I slowed it down and reversed it, it sounded like a child crying.
:In my humble opinion, most of the sounds in this piece are just real animals recorded in some parks, countryside and forests. Dr. Who 14:07, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  High pitched squeaking 

message: I thought at one point this article mentioned the Pink Floyd tribute band named "Several Species."  Is there a reason for its removal?
130.85.241.76 (talk) 22:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, as it says at Wikipedia:Notability, "These notability guidelines only outline how suitable a topic is for its own article. They do not directly limit the content of articles."  So to be mentioned in this article, the tribute band does not have to meet the notability guidelines, it just has to be non-trivial in the context of the article.  In my opinion it meets this criterion. — Mudwater (Talk) 01:22, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tribute Band 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Several Species.ogg

message: A key to unlocking this piece of music is understanding the techniques used to record it.
The "factor of 10" for "bring back my guitar" is pure fantasy.  Here's why:
Given the A string on a bass guitar (for ease of calculation) vibrates at 55 cycles per second.
Given that speeding up tape with an analog switch from 15ips to 30ips would raise the pitch one octave.
Given that the number of cycles needed to reach the same pitch in the next octave doubles.
Then;
1st speed up of the bass note at 55 cycles = 110
2nd = 220
3rd = 440
4th = 880 (sounding A, first ledger line above a treble staff)
5th = 1760
6th = 3520
7th = 7040 (the A higher than the highest C on a piano)
8th = 14080
9th = 28160
Normal human hearing's upper limit is at around 22500 and worsens with age.  So on the 9th speed-up the sound would be inaudible to humans.  This discounts the noise made by the tape recorder, which would also speed up.
Waters' speaking voice is pitched around 220 (ordinary tenor voice).
I don't want to delete the above but the analysis is wrong because it is treating "a factor of 10" to be 10 octaves higher when it is only 10 times the frequency. So 220 Hz goes to 2200Hz which is high but easily audible by most people of all ages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnRipa (talk • contribs) 21:02, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  High pitched squeaking. 

message: Before I engage in edit warring, I notice Ron Geesin has been credited with writing and performing on this.  This is clearly wrong.  For a start this has never been credited to Geesin on ANY release of this track.  Also it is clearly Waters as he would sometimes add strange rantings into songs live.  I have a version of Embryo live where he does this. Waters' Mother was Scottish and he has used the Scottish accent again on The Wall (album) for the Teacher.  Geesin's voice sounds qiute different.NH79.121.143.143 (talk) 02:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erroneous Ron Geesin Credit 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:PinkFloyd-album-ummagummastudio.jpg

message: The mock-Pictish spoken by Waters doesn't mean anything, it's just nonsense that he made up.  This is verified by the quote cited in the article, from the University of Regina Carillon.  If you listen to the track with the idea that he's speaking English, your mind will provide meanings based on similar sounds.  For example, the last line of the speech sounds a little like "and the wind cried Mary", although to my ears it's closer to "and the went crayg man" [sic].  So, the article shouldn't transcribe what the "Pict" is saying, because he isn't saying anything. — Mudwater (Talk) 12:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  And the wind cried Mary, etc.