Yes, that was what I was going for with my line about "scale" - as in musical scale. ( I did say the pun was a reach. )


One of the episodes on the new Muppet show DVD has a performance by the "Mupp-a-phone," where the conductor whacks a series of tribble-like Muppets on the heads with a mallet, and they each say "Ow" on a different pitch. In this case it would be more like "Ooh" or "Ahh", but to a similar effect.