Easter Egg Metronome

I’m going to have my students color eggs this week, so I put a dozen and a half eggs on the stove to boil. After the water began to boil, I set the timer and went to do some warm-up exercises on the harp. I started the metronome app on my iPhone and began playing. I was amused when the kitchen timer went off beeping two eighth-notes between every quarter note of my metronome. It was perfectly timed, and didn’t change. Amused, I thought to myself, “Well, I guess the kitchen timer is set for the quarter notes at 60 beats per minute.”