Re: Ang: Bells horns, etc

Hmmm.  Science Station, Exploratorium, Electronic
Museum, etc....  I wonder how trikes are viewed
nowadays.  In about 1990 the Exploratorium (San
Francisco, CA.) had a display on Parade Trikes.  I
enjoyed it, but was not too impressed. Now that
recumbents are more refined, I haven't kept up with
the information sources for beginners.

As far as electronic sound, a short chime recording
with a deep echo or reverberation would certainly be a
head-turner!

Chris Jordan

--- Mark Garvey <lazybee45@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> RGB! The Slapophone is a NECESSARY component of your
> Musical trailer! Holy
> Cow! you NEED to try it. At the Science Station it
> is simply a way of
> showing people how sound works. The only difference
> in the tubes is the
> length of the tubes themselves. It is a teaching
> device more than a musical
> instrument. I have made simple whistles and flutes
> with PVC and it works
> pretty well.
> mark
> 
>  On 10/7/05, Mark Rehder <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >
> > >On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:46:51AM -0500, Mark
> Garvey wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>OH MY GAWD! someone ELSE who LOVED Bloom County!
> The strip was started
> > by a
> > >>guy who lived in Iowa City and Quirky doesn't
> begin to describe it! By
> > >>theway, Look up "Nonsequiter" by wiley, another
> Iowa city cartoonist,
> > which
> > >>is really GREAT, and includes such characters ad
> "OBVIOUSMAN"
> > >> ANyhoooo! Back to trikes. I LIKE my air Zound,
> but two things prevent
> > my
> > >>using it, the awkwardness of the long tube and
> no place to mount the
> > >>damn....uh....DARN thing on my bars. too little
> clearance anywhere. HAVE
> > to
> > >>figure out how to do it again. It is useful! But
> somehow I think a
> > >>.........oh! um......guys.....have you ever
> thought of mounting the Air
> > >>Zound on a longer piece of PVC? say a foot long
> chunk of 1 1/2 or
> > something?
> > >>or longer? It would be fairly simple to heat and
> "bell" if you wanted to
> > >>which would change the note (the tuned legnth of
> the pipe) and maybe
> > amplify
> > >>it. that puny little bell sort of sucks. I have
> made simple flutes and
> > >>whistles from PVC and it works pretty neat. not
> at ALL hard to do. Our
> > local
> > >>Science Museum has an ....well,....sort of a
> pipe organ that you play by
> > >>slapping rubber paddles on the 4 inch tubes that
> are of different
> > lengths.
> > >> Just a thought.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >That's a pretty damn cool idea! That should be
> able to lower the pitch
> > >a couple of octaves... but it might also lower
> the volume...
> > >
> >
> > The rubber paddle instrument is called a
> "slapophone":
> >
> >
>
http://www.wrybread.com/gametone/instruments/slapophone.shtml
> >
> > When miked up through a PA system it has a kind of
> dry, synthesizer
> > sound to it. A friend played in a group that used
> one, and said the
> > hard part was transporting the longest tubes. So
> they got got creative
> > by using equal length short tubes but added length
> by using some of that
> > pleated dryer vent hose! The various lengths coud
> then just be jumbled
> > over one another, and when done just fold them
> back up against the end
> > of each respective tube and they fit in a much
> smaller case or box.
> >
> > rgb, perhaps the organ trailer needs a giant
> slapophone for its next
> > outing?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> 
> 
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