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Terry -
You are right to take pride in the little miracles that are the
unpredictable children of ones' thoughts. In response to your question, if
you allow for the somewhat looser interpretation, which follows the subject
thread, rather than the specific posting title (since the actual subject of
this wandered a bit), my candidate for the longest would be one which began
on 11/30/01 "Negative Bearing" by the infamous David Love, and morphed
through a number of changed subject tiltles until a final gasp from Phillip
Ford and Richard Brekne, "Vibrating strings and bridges", on 3/14/02. I
counted a total of about 519 posts throughout the thread, the title
subjects of which were as follows:
11/30/01 - 12/04/01 Negative Bearing 037
12/03/01 - 12/06/01 Soundboard grain angle 039
12/03/01 - 12/04/01 Sound in soundboard 009
12/04/01 - 12/06/01 Modal Analysis 025
12/05/01 - 12/08/01 Sound waves 032
12/08/01 - 12/10/01 Soundboard vs. string 005
12/15/01 - 12/ 21/01 Behavior of sound waves 255
12/24/01 - 12/31/01 Rocking bridges 032
12/25/01 - 12/26/01 Sound wave physics 002
01/06/02 - 01/10/02 Sound propagation 019
01/17/02 - 01/20/02 Soundwaves (a neat experiment) 023
01/24/02 - 01/31/02 Wapin bridge 026
02/04/02 - 02/05/02 On the course of discussion 002
02/25/02 - 02/27/02 Bass bridges made of spruce 005
02/27/02 Aprons & holey bridges 002
02/25/02 - 02/27/02 On the Course of discussion 004
(Behavior of soundboards)
03/14/02 Vibrating strings 002
I always hoped (expected) that the discussion would revive once everyone
cooled down and took extension division courses in non-linear calculus. So
far, no luck. I thought I had a chance at reviving it last week, when I
replied to a post of Del's in "No killer octave here", where he said:
>At 04:18 PM 4/13/2003 -0700, Del wrote:
>
>>Energy from the strings is "transferred over a greater area of the bridge"
>>by virture of the bridge being set in physical motion by the vibrating
>>energy in the strings. Because of this motion both the soundboard and the
>>other strings in the vicinity are also set in motion.
I said:
>I'm wondering whether to expect a response from Robin Hufford any time
>soon. I wasn't sure that one ever got settled either, at least with a
>"blow'um out of the water" arguement. I had always expected that the
>subject would be revisited when tempers had cooled. Perhaps they're still
>cooling.
No takers then. Any now?
Still keeping my head down, with extra gallons of H2O in the basement.
David Skolnik
Hastings-on-Hudson
PS. The recent Steinway Duplex discussion (11/12 - 12/01) @ 249 did pretty
well also.
At 06:23 AM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I find it curious sometimes that you can post something and not get any
>responses. Then other times the responses don't seem to stop. I wonder if
>anyone has kept track of the most popular post ever (the most responses to it)?
>
>I'm amazed at the conversation stirred up by my original Killer Octave
>Question post. I was hoping to get a little feedback - probably from the
>likes of Del F. and Ron N., but clearly did not expect 124 responses!!!
>This back-and-forth banter seems to have squeezed out some very
>interesting information.
>
>Terry Farrell
>
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