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Comment on Bassoon by The Bassoon Page @ Digressions and Other Inconsistencies

The Bassoon Page @ Digressions and Other Inconsistencies — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:52:36 +0000

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Comment on Starting Up Your Reed Factory – Part 3 – Slowly But Surely by Kent

Kent — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:48:37 +0000

You’re right. I wouldn’t have thought that would affect PVC as much. Interesting to find that out.

I do have a few reeds that are either old and worn out, or that didn’t end up in my A-list. You’re welcome to them!

Comment on Starting Up Your Reed Factory – Part 3 – Slowly But Surely by greentheo

greentheo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:09:07 +0000

This post is really interesting to me because:

1.) I too have been thinking of being a Jazz musician instead of my current profession

2.) In my work on stock market prediction I find a lot of the same techniques to be true for optimizing the models that do the heavy lifting of predicting.

I think this must be true for any chaotic/randomized task. As you say, each piece of cane is different… it’s randomly different. That’s why a form only works so well.

At some point a mixture of intuition and science proceeds… but it’s mostly guess and check. Tedious… but humanizing work.

Comment on Starting Up Your Reed Factory – Part 3 – Slowly But Surely by chaptor

chaptor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:01:43 +0000

Now, you’d think that none of this patient logic would be needed for something as simple as a PVC flute… would ya’? Take that piece of industrial tubing that is so consistent that you could not make it better if you tried, and measure the hole placement like the best one you just made before it, and put it all together and blow… sweet perfection… nope…! How can that be???

I made a batch of 30 small flutes from the same batch of PVC tubing last year. I just went back to the worst one and the best one and tried to figure out how they were different… hole in the same place, same size, same wall thickness. No help. Sound hole different! Ah ha! I fixed that… nope still the same. Ah ha! the air flue was warped on the bad one! I disassembled, applied some poly clay, cured and re-shaped… nope.

After all the flutes I have made I can not figure out why the one plays beautifully through 2+ octaves while the other plays OK through 1.5 octaves, then just stops. I gave up and gave it away to a kid who loves it as it is. I guess that is the secret!

I want to make a bassoon reed to plug into my bass flute tube! Got any “bad ones” I can have? chaptor

Comment on Starting Up Your Reed Factory – Part 1 – Dial-a-Reed by Starting Up Your Reed Factory – Part 3 – Slowly But Surely @ Digressions and Other Inconsistencies

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:22:28 +0000

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Comment on Performance of the Mozetich Bassoon Quartet by Kent

Kent — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:08:08 +0000

Not to beat a dead horse by resurrecting this old post, but I discovered a new “WPaudio” plugin in the blog settings, activated it, converted the links in the post, and voila! A working, nice looking audio player. Sweet!

I’m guessing you were the one who added it, so thanks! Nice find!

Comment on Do It Yourself iPhone Dock by greentheo

greentheo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:03:45 +0000

You also have to admit that this is pretty darn green as far as products go.

Actually this reminds me of my beer can backpacking stove. I’ll have to post about how I made that one too.

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Did It Myself iPhone Dock @ Digressions and Other Inconsistencies — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:32:03 +0000

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Do It Yourself iPhone Dock @ Digressions and Other Inconsistencies — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:44:18 +0000

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Comment on So, About That Internet by Nathan Taylor

Nathan Taylor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:39:06 +0000

great points. I then had to decide whether I wanted to do something as long as write a reply or whether I would move on to something else bright and shiny. it’s a subject that we all are constantly making decisions about, but rarely thinking them through.

thanks for sharing your thoughts. They certainly will jog my mind, right after i finish this cool youtube video…..