Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2004/09

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cracking a glass vase with high notes?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:46:48 -0400

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:18:24 -0700, Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu> wrote:

>Using Google with the two compound keywords "broken glass" and "high note"
>one gets 394 hits. The first, from the University of Salford (UK), offers
>a video showing the process in action. I haven't looked at the other 393
>hits! 8-)
>
>

However, I seriously doubt that an unamplified clarinet player could get
anywhere near 140 dBa, as was required in this experiment. Even a
high-school trumpeter would have a hard time with that.

I would guess it more likely that temperature fluctuations and physical
vibrations from the phone aggravated a manufacturing flaw in the vase.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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