Talk:The Rothman Disintegration/@comment-74.132.98.147-20120217014911/@comment-99.234.175.176-20140807025602

The wind chime notes are a pentatonic scale C D E G A. The notes written under BIRD are also the notes of a pentatonic scale, starting on either B or Db. Both are one semi-tone away (either above or below) the wind chimes tonic of C. Thus, Sheldon's comments regarding intonation - the bird is either sharp or flat but never in tune with the chimes.

Each line of notes could also represent the notes or a chord, not solely a melody per se. The first chord is GbM9 and pretty standard jazz chords follow. The chord progression noted on the white board sounds pretty similar to "The Rainbow Connection". Many of the chords noted are 9th chords and 8s represent octaves in music. Interesting riddle for musicians!