Re: [Harp-L] Comb materials debate (Vern)

[joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 4, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Vern wrote:

> On Sep 4, 2010, at 6:25 AM, geoff atkins wrote:
>
> > Vern described experiments made with combs of different materials
> > and that not one of 30 people present could hear any difference.
> > (They perhaps had been sucking on the lead(!) comb).  :)
> > To digress, I've had lead poisoning as a child, and almost 60  
> > years later I
> > can remember the agonizing headache and nausea.
> > Making a comb from lead was a foolhardy exercise, I hope Dr Walden  
> > didn't
> > suffer the same way.
>
> The lead comb was played by a machine, not by Walden.
>
> Vern
Besides, you couldn't absorb lead that way. It's the fumes that get  
you (lead oxide). Making hand cast bullets will get you.
>