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Terry -<br>
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:<br><br>
11/30/01 - 12/04/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Negative
Bearing<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>037<br>
12/03/01 -
12/06/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Soundboard grain
angle<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>039<br>
12/03/01 - 12/04/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Sound in
soundboard<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>009<br>
12/04/01 - 12/06/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Modal
Analysis<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>025<br>
12/05/01 - 12/08/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Sound
waves<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>032<br>
12/08/01 -
12/10/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Soundboard vs.
string<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>005<br>
12/15/01 - 12/ 21/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Behavior of
sound
waves<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>255<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
12/24/01 - 12/31/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Rocking
bridges<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>032<br>
12/25/01 - 12/26/01<x-tab> </x-tab>Sound
wave
physics<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>002<br>
01/06/02 - 01/10/02<x-tab> </x-tab>Sound
propagation<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>019<br>
01/17/02 -
01/20/02<x-tab> </x-tab>Soundwaves (a neat
experiment)<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>023<br>
01/24/02 - 01/31/02<x-tab> </x-tab>Wapin
bridge<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>026<br>
02/04/02 - 02/05/02<x-tab> </x-tab>On the
course of
discussion<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>002<br>
02/25/02 - 02/27/02<x-tab> </x-tab>Bass
bridges made of
spruce<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>005<br>
02/27/02<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Aprons
& holey
bridges<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>002<br>
02/25/02 - 02/27/02<x-tab> </x-tab>On the
Course of
discussion<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>004<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Behavior
of soundboards)<br>
03/14/02<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Vibrating
strings<x-tab> </x-tab>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>002<br><br>
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:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>At 04:18 PM 4/13/2003 -0700, Del
wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Energy from the strings is
"transferred over a greater area of the bridge"<br>
by virture of the bridge being set in physical motion by the
vibrating<br>
energy in the strings. Because of this motion both the soundboard and
the<br>
other strings in the vicinity are also set in
motion.</blockquote></blockquote><br>
I said:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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.</blockquote><br>
No takers then. Any now? <br><br>
Still keeping my head down, with extra gallons of H<font size=1>2</font>O
in the basement.<br><br>
David Skolnik<br>
Hastings-on-Hudson<br><br>
PS. The recent Steinway Duplex discussion (11/12 - 12/01) @ 249 did
pretty well also.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
At 06:23 AM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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)?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Terry Farrell<br>
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