LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A Scottish church which featured in the bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years.
A father and son who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in them.
Thomas Mitchell, a 75-year-old musician and ex-Royal Air Force code breaker, and his composer and pianist son Stuart, described the piece as "frozen music". Stuart Mitchell said he and his father were intrigued by 13 intricately carved angel musicians on the arches of the chapel and by 213 carved cubes depicting geometric-type patterns.
"They are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here," he told Reuters.
Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches.
This is such a cool story. That some church-founder all those years ago decided to put hidden codes into the artwork! Now, notice, the codes were music, not secrets about Jesus's children. But cool, nonetheless. Hats off to the first person that can find the preformance on youtube or the internet!
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Doff your hat, Matt. http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/audio/rossexc.mp3
The "stones cry out."
Ha Ha Ha
we've got a comedian in the family.
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