Klarinet Archive - Posting 000550.txt from 1998/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: pitch standards
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:08:38 -0400

Moreover, sound doesn't actually travel in a vacuum.
Something has to vibrate. It's not a fluctuation in field intensities like
light.
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Brent Eresman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:55:58 -0500
> From: Brent Eresman <Beresman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re: pitch standards
>
>
> > From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>
> > I think you are in error here. Unless temperature affects TIME, too, 440
> > cycles per second is 440 cycles per second, in heat or cold, air or vacuum.
> >
> Of course, in a vacuum, you won't be able to hear it anyway so it
> won't matter...
>
> Brent Eresman
> beresman@-----.com
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