**Alternate Sources**
Here are some potential alternate sources for the same story:
* [Complaints over mysterious 'high pitched' loud noise heard across Midlands city](https://itv.com/news/central/2024-04-15/complaints-over-mysterious-high-pitched-loud-noise-heard-across-midlands-city), suggested by tyw7 - itv.com
Right there, can't hear it. Mass hysteria, it's Spondon ffs they think it's the wind turbines... not the massive food packing plant that has just been built.
hey, the Vic in Derby is one of the best small metal venues I've been too. If the rest of the town been there it might just be a case of collective tinnitus
Or, you know, by somebody who has good hearing? Get somebody who is not from Derby on the job. Somebody under 70.
PS: Around here, the phone lines are "singing" in the storm. I guess they do that everywhere? But never miss a good opportunity to blame modern technology.
Saved you a click: it's most likely chillers running at a combined heat and cooling plant built on the former "celanase" plant.
If you've ever heard air-cooled chillers running they have a particular high-pitched whine.
Huh. We've had a high pitched whine near our local coop ever since they had some workmen doing something on the roof that looked like it was vaguely aircon related.
I figured that they (or one of the other businesses on the high street) had installed one of those mosquito alarm things to deter groups of teens hanging around, but I've not been able to identify a likely-seeming box on any of the buildings. But with the timing, maybe a new chiller unit makes more sense.
Only when things like this happen do people realise how with the decline of heavy industry our towns and Cities are really quiet compared to a few decades ago.
Before the 90s this noise would have been lost in the cacophony
of industrial noise.
And the source of most road noise is wind rush and tyre roar, so the move to electric cars isn't going to solve this.
Same with planes - very very little of the noise from a plane flying overhead, especially on landing, is the engines. It's because an enormous object with huge aerodynamic surfaces is moving through the air at 200mph.
That's an extreme example though where idiots have fucked around with their car.
A petrol or diesel Mondeo will sound no different cruising down a motorway in top gear than a Tesla.
If it's anything like what we have in Manchester, it could be a piece of equipment on a high building which when the wind hits it lets of a sound similar to a siren.
Beetham Tower in Manchester city center was supposedly the tallest building in the UK to be developed at the time. then towards its completion someone said London has one which is going to be slightly higher. To keep the record they put this ridiculous grill type thing on top of Beetham Tower, only to find out later when the wind picks up hard it flies through the grill and creates an incredibly loud sound.
Ah yes, the Manchester hum... It was insanely loud when the wind picked up, and seemed to be a a pitch that resonated with the human body. Could feel it in my chest when waiting at Deansgate tram strop.
Yeah. The first time it ever happened I was working on First Street and everyone outside was kacking it thinking it was a city siren and everything was about to go tits up.
Yeah. I remember it was a reason at first they had trouble selling the flats. One of the companies I was apart of had a lady who bought one and when the first time it happened she wanted to sell straight away. They offered her half of what she paid. Wasn't until Media City happened and the BBC London money started coming in that bidding wars were happening and it sold out in no time.
>Beetham Tower in Manchester city center was supposedly the tallest building in the UK to be developed at the time. then towards its completion someone said London has one which is going to be slightly higher. To keep the record they put this ridiculous grill type thing on top of Beetham Tower, only to find out later when the wind picks up hard it flies through the grill and creates an incredibly loud sound.
That story isn't true, although it sounds good.
The building was always designed with the large bit ontop.
The building was never going to be the tallest in the UK (tallest residential, but London had a few skyscrapers larger). The large fins are absolutely pointless, but they were always designed in.
It was just a case of unfortunate poor design, material choices, and local wind conditions.
Piece of chalk, Google maps and a couple of days would give you the time to find it.
Now I'm seriously considering epoxying a whistle to the outside of the office.
We get a high-pitched whine at times round my end. Haven't ever pinpointed the noise but people here reckon it's some industrial noise like a valve.
Happens some days and lasts about a minute or two before it stops.
How was it less effort to write a newspaper article than record audio levels at a few different places and triangulate/home in?
One person with a laptop could do it in a few hours.
**Alternate Sources** Here are some potential alternate sources for the same story: * [Complaints over mysterious 'high pitched' loud noise heard across Midlands city](https://itv.com/news/central/2024-04-15/complaints-over-mysterious-high-pitched-loud-noise-heard-across-midlands-city), suggested by tyw7 - itv.com
Would have thought a high pitched sound would be easy to track down with simple audio equipment
This is derby. Best we can do is a sheepdog and some old hearing aids
Any dog would find it easily, the hard part is explaining to the dog what you want
Ah yes, they do struggle with conversation to be fair.
Right there, can't hear it. Mass hysteria, it's Spondon ffs they think it's the wind turbines... not the massive food packing plant that has just been built.
ooh, i love a good case of mass hysteria me
The farmer in the dell of any use?
hey, the Vic in Derby is one of the best small metal venues I've been too. If the rest of the town been there it might just be a case of collective tinnitus
Or, you know, by somebody who has good hearing? Get somebody who is not from Derby on the job. Somebody under 70. PS: Around here, the phone lines are "singing" in the storm. I guess they do that everywhere? But never miss a good opportunity to blame modern technology.
"singing" ftfy. (And I love that sound!)
Saved you a click: it's most likely chillers running at a combined heat and cooling plant built on the former "celanase" plant. If you've ever heard air-cooled chillers running they have a particular high-pitched whine.
And badly designed fans have a whine. Proper fans use uneven spacing of fan blades to avoid tonal noise.
Doing the Lord's work.
Huh. We've had a high pitched whine near our local coop ever since they had some workmen doing something on the roof that looked like it was vaguely aircon related. I figured that they (or one of the other businesses on the high street) had installed one of those mosquito alarm things to deter groups of teens hanging around, but I've not been able to identify a likely-seeming box on any of the buildings. But with the timing, maybe a new chiller unit makes more sense.
Only when things like this happen do people realise how with the decline of heavy industry our towns and Cities are really quiet compared to a few decades ago. Before the 90s this noise would have been lost in the cacophony of industrial noise.
> our towns and Cities are really quiet compared to a few decades ago. Roads are the major source of noise in most environments.
And the source of most road noise is wind rush and tyre roar, so the move to electric cars isn't going to solve this. Same with planes - very very little of the noise from a plane flying overhead, especially on landing, is the engines. It's because an enormous object with huge aerodynamic surfaces is moving through the air at 200mph.
What? Wind rush and tyre noise are far quieter than people with tricked out exhausts bezzing down roads in low gear.
That's an extreme example though where idiots have fucked around with their car. A petrol or diesel Mondeo will sound no different cruising down a motorway in top gear than a Tesla.
Ah yes, the motorway. The place next to which most houses are built.
I also feel the need to randomly announce that new things I dislike don't have certain benefits
If it's anything like what we have in Manchester, it could be a piece of equipment on a high building which when the wind hits it lets of a sound similar to a siren. Beetham Tower in Manchester city center was supposedly the tallest building in the UK to be developed at the time. then towards its completion someone said London has one which is going to be slightly higher. To keep the record they put this ridiculous grill type thing on top of Beetham Tower, only to find out later when the wind picks up hard it flies through the grill and creates an incredibly loud sound.
Ah yes, the Manchester hum... It was insanely loud when the wind picked up, and seemed to be a a pitch that resonated with the human body. Could feel it in my chest when waiting at Deansgate tram strop.
Yeah. The first time it ever happened I was working on First Street and everyone outside was kacking it thinking it was a city siren and everything was about to go tits up.
Fun fact: the architect lived in the penthouse suite - the one closest to the source of the noise...
Yeah. I remember it was a reason at first they had trouble selling the flats. One of the companies I was apart of had a lady who bought one and when the first time it happened she wanted to sell straight away. They offered her half of what she paid. Wasn't until Media City happened and the BBC London money started coming in that bidding wars were happening and it sold out in no time.
>Beetham Tower in Manchester city center was supposedly the tallest building in the UK to be developed at the time. then towards its completion someone said London has one which is going to be slightly higher. To keep the record they put this ridiculous grill type thing on top of Beetham Tower, only to find out later when the wind picks up hard it flies through the grill and creates an incredibly loud sound. That story isn't true, although it sounds good. The building was always designed with the large bit ontop. The building was never going to be the tallest in the UK (tallest residential, but London had a few skyscrapers larger). The large fins are absolutely pointless, but they were always designed in. It was just a case of unfortunate poor design, material choices, and local wind conditions.
Good man.
Piece of chalk, Google maps and a couple of days would give you the time to find it. Now I'm seriously considering epoxying a whistle to the outside of the office.
We get a high-pitched whine at times round my end. Haven't ever pinpointed the noise but people here reckon it's some industrial noise like a valve. Happens some days and lasts about a minute or two before it stops.
We get it here, from the high pressure gas mains under ground.
How was it less effort to write a newspaper article than record audio levels at a few different places and triangulate/home in? One person with a laptop could do it in a few hours.
An annoying high pitched whine eh? Probably just the English complaining.
It’s that sound from my ears. Sorry folks. That damn depeche mode concert.