Re: [Harp-L] was experiment, now just combs

["Roscoe Catania" <rjcataniajr@xxxxxxxxx>]

*Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
* *- Mark Twain


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On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:54 PM, David Payne
<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Vern Smith wrote:
> "We had both machine-blown and player-blown comparisons at the first SPAH
> experiment.  I spent days constructing the machine and then lugged it half
> way across the continent to get it to SPAH.  The airlines were more
> tolerant
> of extra luggage in '97. It used a tank-type vacuum cleaner tamed by a 2KW
> light dimmer as an air pump.  It used 25 feet of garden hose to isolate the
> noise of the pump (much reduced at 5 inches of water from the 80 inches of
> water generated at full speed) from the tones of the harps.  Not one of 30
> people could distinguish among lead, titanium, balsa wood, plastic foam,
> pear wood, and ABS plastic.  They didn't even know whether the sound came
> from different or the same harps blown in succession!
>
> Vern "
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> Now I know. And knowing is half the battle.
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