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list Fri, 25 Dec 1998 Volume 1 : Number 64In this issue:
----------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 02:25:48 -0600
From: M Rubin <mdrubin@bga.com>
To: <list@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: tarragottoIf anybody happens to be looking for one, a friend of mine just happens to
have one possibly for sale. Lemme know if anybody's interested.___________________________________________________________
Mark RubinPOB 49227
Austin TX USA 78765-9227
-Bad Livers, Inc.
http://www.hyperweb.com/badlivers
"Soon, we will eat again..." -A wise old Mexican man.------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:43:20 EST
From: Heliconman@aol.com
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: Subcontrabassoon!In a message dated 12/20/98 7:09:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, list@contrabass.com writes:
> Apperently, the bottom limit for human hearing of a pure sine wave is
> just below 32' C (16 Hz). Does anybody know anything more specific
> about that?I got a friend who installs and maintains sound systems for movie theatres
among other things who was telling me about "Sensurround" around the time that
"Earthquake" came to the theatres. "Sensurround" was done by the movie
triggering an oscillator that played a 12Hz tone at a fairly loud volume
through a bunch of Cerwin Vega 30 inch woofers. The effect was that of the
building rumbling like an earthquake and can be felt in your whole body but
not your ears (unless you're a whale! or an elephant).
Heliconman@aol.com------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:23:35 CST
From: "Gregg Bailey" <greggbailey@hotmail.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: REALLY Low tonesHeliconman,
>"Sensurround" was done by the movie
>triggering an oscillator that played a 12Hz tone at a fairly loud volume
>through a bunch of Cerwin Vega 30 inch woofers. The effect was that of the
>building rumbling like an earthquake and can be felt in your whole body but
>not your ears (unless you're a whale! or an elephant).Is it true that that scene rumbled some people's bowels so violently
that they had to go to the bathroom?
I want to hear the 64' Diaphone pipe in the organ in the Atlantic City
Convention Hall. It is about 8 Hz. There is a stoptab on the console
that engages the fifth in that rank of pipes to sound simultaneously to
give a 128' resultant, which would be down to 4 Hz. I plan to design an
organ which has a true 128' pipe. However, Since 128' is so tall, and I
don't want to miter any pipes, I guess I'll just have the 128' rank be
stopped pipes. I also will have a 128' Clarinet rank, since it, too,
would be half-length. I will refuse to have half-length conical
resonators, because that is a false tone with no reinforcement in the
fundamental.
One girl online claims she got naucious when she activated the 64'
Diaphone at ACCH. I'll have to find the URL for that webpage, and I'll
post it to the list!
Also, there is a picture somewhere online of the lowest pipe in the 64'
Contra Trombone rank in the organ in Sydney, Australia. If I find it
again I'll post it, too. Ever since I had Mac OS put on this computer,
I lost those past bookmarks. :(
Gregg
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