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list Thu, 3 Sep 1998 Volume 1 : Number 77In this issue:
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- Eb Contra mouthpiece
- Get me off!
- subwoofer menace
- Re: subwoofer menace
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:15:37 EDT
From: CoolStu67@aol.com
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Eb Contra mouthpieceHey, remember when I told you all that I didn't know my mouthpiece type, well
today at AMI I saw it and it looked just like mine. It is the Selmer GM Bundy
#3 contra mouthpiece.
Stuart
-Eb Alto Sax
-Bb Bass Clarinet
-EEb Contrabass Clarinet------------------------------
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 22:11:49 +0000
From: Kilmer <mc17@duluth.infi.net>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Get me off!I would like to unsubscribe but I keep sending my stuff to
reques-list@contrabass.com saying "unsubscribe",then I emailed that
3-line thing and I still get mail!
Oh please-it's not that I don't like you people,but...
well,someone help me!------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:49:36 EDT
From: LeliaLoban@aol.com
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: subwoofer menaceThanks for the additional anecdotes about the effects of low-pitched sound on
the human body. There's lots of fantasy and science fiction on the subject,
but I'm still interested in acquiring purportedly factual reports. People
seem to have an instinctive idea (or superstition) that low pitched sound does
something mysterious.Back in the late 1960s, when hippies performed street theater about levitating
the Pentagon by chanting "Om", most of the participants spontaneously furrowed
their brows in expressions of somber concentration, pulled their heads back
like turtles, tucked their chins, dropped their jaws and seemed intent on
pitching their voices as low as they could go. I took part in one of these
ceremonies at U. C. Berserkeley. While I didn't actually expect the Pentagon
to pull itself up by the roots and hover, I automatically tried to croak my
(alto) voice down to the basement, too. Nobody told us to use low notes.
They just seemed "right". Despite our earnest efforts, the Pentagon did
nothing but squat there as usual. Maybe if we'd used the 158-ft. alphorn plus
two or three hundred contrabass sarrusophones....There are all sorts of stories. It's said, for instance, that the ancients
sang the great archetrave of the temple at Baalbek into place. A TV
documentary that described this legend played big old organ pedal BWWWAAAAAAA
as background music. It sounded appropriate. Squealing fifes just wouldn't do
the job, somehow, regardless of decibel level. According to a similar fable,
the Druids sang the stones into place at Stonehenge. (Minor detail: The
Druids didn't build Stonehenge. They came along considerably later. Well,
okay, okay, okay, so maybe somebody else sang the stones into place....)Jim Katz's info about the use of the didgeridoo in shamanic ritual is most
interesting. I've had experience with shamanic drumming, and am convinced
that the sound, or perhaps the strobe-like repetition, produces a kinesthetic
affect on the brain, although the occult beliefs involved in shamanism
conflict with my own impression of how the world works. (Personally I think
it's turtles all the way down.) The shamanic practitioners I worked with
(North American New Age folks) preferred low-pitched, deeply resonant drums.
They liked my 18" Thunderheart bodhran, especially if I played it with a
timpani or bass drum stick instead of the traditional kip, but they liked
someone else's 36" bass council drum better. Do the aboriginal shamans use a
droning, monotonously repetitive sound on the didge?I will refrain from asking (re. a previous post from Paul Sheldon) exactly
what the female breast does when it resonates. If it sings "Hari Krishna," I
don't want to know about it. (If it sings "Big John," I especially don't want
to know about it.) But does anyone know of a chart or list showing the
frequency at which various other common things resonate?Lelia
LeliaLoban@aol.com
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"Of all noises I think music the least disagreeable."
--Samuel Johnson
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:55:50 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: subwoofer menaceAt 04:49 PM 9/3/98 EDT, you wrote:
>nothing but squat there as usual. Maybe if we'd used the 158-ft. alphorn plus
>two or three hundred contrabass sarrusophones....Probably the world's supply of both instruments ;-) Instead, how about we
just write a few "special pieces" for the next TubaChristmas ?>There are all sorts of stories. It's said, for instance, that the ancients
>sang the great archetrave of the temple at Baalbek into place. A TV
>documentary that described this legend played big old organ pedal BWWWAAAAAAA
>as background music. It sounded appropriate. Squealing fifes just wouldn't do
>the job, somehow, regardless of decibel level. According to a similar fable,Yep: trumpets for demolition, tubas for heavy lifting. Sounds about right ;-)
>I will refrain from asking (re. a previous post from Paul Sheldon) exactly
>what the female breast does when it resonates. If it sings "Hari Krishna," I
>don't want to know about it. (If it sings "Big John," I especially don't want
>to know about it.) But does anyone know of a chart or list showing the
>frequency at which various other common things resonate?My guess would be that it vibrates with a noticeable amplitude. Couldn't
find any data on the web: closest I got was
http://www.acoustics.org/133rd/4abv13.html, which describes a method for
measuring bone loss through the change in (infrasonic) resonance frequency
of the leg. Unfortunately, the abstract on the web doesn't say what
frequencies they used.Enjoy!
Grant
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