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Rainbows...

Isaac Newton tried to match sound waves to light waves. He came up with seven colours for the seven notes in a scale. His colours were:
C  Red
D  Orange
E  yellow
F  Green
G  Blue
A  Indigo
B  pink



(These colours are wrong to me!!)

Its because of Newton that people have thought that there are seven colours in a rainbow. But if you look closely you'll probably only notice six. I can only ever see six.



Thats the view out my bedroom window the other day.

I'm listening to "So What" by Miles Davis. Its blue with bits of red and fizzy yellow sparkles.
Theres a bar of black behind the other colours.
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