Tonywinsc, as you've already posted, human hearing reaches down to 20 Hz, and there are some instruments that that can be heard as well as felt below 27 Hz. Granted many are not too common, though the Bosendorfer grand and such pipe organs aren't all that unusual, and I have heard some of the above linked contra instruments. Most western music is written with the idea that the first octave begins at 16 Hz. For the sake of accuracy, I stand by my earlier posts.