Do you recognize the melody?

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"Jim Beaver" wrote in message
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I put up my Christmas tree yesterday, with two strings of lights, each
string plugged into a separate socket on the same receptacle. About
three
hours after turning the lights on, I noticed a low humming sound
coming from
the room. When I unplugged one string of lights, nothing happened.
When I
unplugged the other string, the humming stopped. Plug it back in, the
humming starts again.

Now here's the weird part (at least to me): the humming is not
actually
emanating from the lights, the cord, the receptacle or anything else
on that
entire side of the room. The hum (which is quite noticeable) seems to
come
from near the ceiling 3/4 of the way across this 17-foot-long room.
The hum
is present whether the regular light fixtures are on or off, and
there's
nothing else electrical in the room.

The hum is just loud enough to cause me some concern -- not from the
noise
(which is not unpleasant) but from its volume, which is enough to
suggest
that something conceivably might not be safe. But I'm completely
stymied by
the fact that the Christmas tree seems to be a ventriloquist, throwing
the
noise some ten feet away. (Literally, I can stand "between" the tree
and
the hum.)

Any ideas?

Jim Beaver