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Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:15:14 -0800
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: [CB] Another Spam
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comAt 02:45 PM 3/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>We've been hit by another spam!! Grant, is there nothing you can do???Well, we do catch *most* of them (about 10 per day are automatically
rejected). For the few that *do* get through, I yank them from the digest
before it goes out, so that most subscribers never see it. Then, I examine
the mail headers, analyze the IP addresses, and file complaints with all of
the services in the pathway. That usually gets their account
terminated. I've also now added several more filters, to see if we can
catch those dedicated idiots who think it is worthwhile to go to all the
trouble just to spam the 30 or 40 people who will actually receive it.If anyone knows of some particularly good anti-spam software, I'd love to
hear about it ;-)Grant
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:41:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dafydd y garreg wen <mavnw@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [CB] The cheapest Contra Instrument
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comOn Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Grant Green wrote:
> At 12:24 PM 3/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I was just wondering how much everybody thought that the cheapest contra
> >instrument would be. At the moment, I just looked at that Reed Contrabass on
> >e-bay which is going for $630 at the moment. I wonder what other people think
> >the cheapest instrument would be??
>
> Depending on the definition... My guess would be bass guitar - there are
> some *really* cheap ones around. If you want to limit it to wind
> instruments, I'd have to say either a Jupiter BBb tuba, or a Huang double
> bass harmonica.Don't forget the sub-sub-contrabass hosaphone in (approximate) BBBBb that
we constructed last term - 78 feet of mains water pipe, 12.50 pounds, one
large garden funnel for a bell (a few pence), and a borrowed tuba
mouthpiece. Total cost less than 15 pounds. We tried putting a bari sax
mouthpiece on the front to get the fundamental tone - a very strange
effect. You could feel the 3 Hz tone pulsing back and forth, causing you
to make a sort of 'whup' noise every time it reached the reed again.Dave Taylor
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From: "Corwin D. Moore" <corwinmoore@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:10:05 EST
Subject: Re: [CB] The cheapest Contra Instrument
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>Don't forget the sub-sub-contrabass hosaphone in (approximate) BBBBb that
>we constructed last term - 78 feet of mains water pipe, 12.50 pounds, one
>large garden funnel for a bell (a few pence), and a borrowed tuba
>mouthpiece. Total cost less than 15 pounds. We tried putting a bari sax
>mouthpiece on the front to get the fundamental tone - a very strange
>effect. You could feel the 3 Hz tone pulsing back and forth, causing you
>to make a sort of 'whup' noise every time it reached the reed again.One of the interesting effects of a note so low is that virtually all
notes of the scale more than 3 or 4 octaves higher will also be
harmonics.The (unintended?) effect is that you need not produce an instrument with
any great flexibility, for instance to sound at 2.9 Hz, 2.8 Hz, etc.
Instead, ONE NOTE FITS ALL.Of course, it will be somewhat more difficult to double-tongue or
triple-tongue on such an instrument, since the rapid tonguing would
become a significant factor in the vibration itself.Nevertheless, this is all an interesting concept. Poor ol' PDQ Bach
(R.I.P.) must certainly be excited that his early (and heretofore largely
unappreciated) endeavors are finally bringing some redemption.And a further note (from earlier messages) about playing the
sub-contrabass instrument at the bottom of an elevator shaft, to take
advantage of the air column: If indeed there was a need to change the
resonant frequency, just move the elevator up and down. (This could
acknowledge that PDQ, so far ahead of his time in some respects [and so
far behind in others], was the very first composer to have led the way
toward electronic music?!) We should call this. "the Otis-ophone."- Corwin Moore
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---------------------------------------------------------From: ArcLucifer@aol.com
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:39:14 EST
Subject: Re: [CB] The cheapest Contra Instrument
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comYes I did have a mind on a cheap real of 50m of garden hose, now where did I
put that Argos catalogue? :o)Jacob
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:45:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dafydd y garreg wen <mavnw@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [CB] The cheapest Contra Instrument
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comOn Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Corwin D. Moore wrote:
> The (unintended?) effect is that you need not produce an instrument with
> any great flexibility, for instance to sound at 2.9 Hz, 2.8 Hz, etc.
> Instead, ONE NOTE FITS ALL.Also, the delay from mouthpiece to bell was so great that you could play
in canon with yourself - I managed to get La Rejouissance (from Handel's
Music for the Royal Fireworks) sounding quite amusingly close.Dave Taylor
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