Klarinet Archive - Posting 000593.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: pitch standards
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:09:21 -0400

At 12:41 PM 9/16/98 +0100, Roger Shilcock wrote:
>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:
>> > 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...
>>
OK, so I exaggerated a little bit. The original oscillating device,
however, be it reed, quartz crystal, etc., would still do it's thing in a
vacuum (Yes, without air pressure it may actually vibrate at a different
frequency with the same stimulation, but that is beyond the scope of the
discussion). You just wouldn't be able to hear it. But 440 hz would STILL
be 440 hz.

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