Ed Sutton asked: > Please tell more. Did you work with monochords? Yes, i built one out of an old pinblock, which allowed us to use it for tuning pin awareness week. It has the positions for all the basic ratios written on top, and a sliding bridge. Very simple. ( oh yea, a soundbox underneath connected with a big, big dowel going up through the block for a bridge. ) >Did the class get >excited and learn? Their interest is directly proportional to the probability that I am going to break something or hurt myself, so you have to stay active. (:)}} Yes, I kept it as practical as possible, and tried to stay with the topics that concerned all, like interval widths, stretching, unisons, weather changes, etc. The route from Pythagoras's 3:2 to todays 12 TET has been a chore for some, but I am keeping it in just for their own good. They were most interested in the phsical, real stuff. Like how to pull an action and remove a damper. They had to draw a whippen from memory and tell what each part did. > I'm not sure the students here (pretty much ho-hum) would engage it >with enough energy to get much from it, but wouldn't it be nice if I >were wrong? There is only one way to find out. Regards, Ed Foote
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