A ^Retired Plastic Surgeon's Notebook

Harmony in music and plastic surgery

Seattle Plastic Surgeon returns from Guitar Camp feeling very harmonious.

I just finished a week at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop which accounts for my feeling that I am in perfect harmony with the universe.  Hopefully this euphoria will fade very, very slowly – say over the next 51 weeks and then I will get to attend guitar camp again for my endorphin fix.

This past week I learned a  quick way to tune an unwieldy stand up bass without having to fret the strings.  The bass is tuned  E-A-D-G and playing the E and A or the D and G together should sound harmonious.  That’s because E is the fifth of the key of A and D is the fifth of the key of  G.  They sound really, really good together.

This combination of 1 – 5 shows up in all kinds of music from Gregorian chants to rock and roll power chords.   Additional notes cans be used to fill out the chord but that 1 – 5  often is the foundation for something that sounds good.

I try really hard at guitar camp not to think about plastic surgery but while tuning up my bass yesterday,  I was thinking  how important harmony is in the human shape and face.  

 When I’m evaluating a patient for body, breast or facial surgery, I am always looking at how all the parts fit together or should fit together.  Sometimes a patient (and sometimes the plastic surgeon) is so focused on a body area or facial feature, he/she does not appreciate how important it is for everything to harmonize,  just like a Gregorian chant or a power chord.

Thanks for reading!  Dr. Lisa Lynn Sowder

 

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