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Post by Dub on Apr 18, 2024 22:34:07 GMT -5
Doc here. I'm in I think, thanks to Paul and Dub and Howard and The Goddesses and Luck and The Fates... I thought I would add a snapshot. Alas, FILE TOO BIG. I know I have put on a pound or so, but to have my portrait rejected by a device...wow. Doc, include the image you want in a post using the button just below the subject line. I’ll be happy to make the image fit in your avatar frame.
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Post by Dub on Apr 18, 2024 15:25:45 GMT -5
I just received this email from Doc Froon: Done.
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Post by Dub on Apr 18, 2024 13:04:00 GMT -5
Looks good, thanks.
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Post by Dub on Apr 18, 2024 11:45:45 GMT -5
I have no indication that Doc Froon wants that.
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Post by Dub on Apr 18, 2024 11:44:00 GMT -5
I too am turned off by crude speech in journalism though I don’t find it offensive in certain real life conversations. It tells me the journalist thinks that’s how I (we?) speak in normal conversation with friends and the journalist wants to seem like a casual friend.
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Post by Dub on Apr 18, 2024 10:40:00 GMT -5
If Doc Froon would like a membership on this forum, I know an admin or two who would be happy to set up and account and hand it over to him with a password. All secure, of course.
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Post by Dub on Apr 17, 2024 7:21:39 GMT -5
Inspiring indeed. Thanks.
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 20:20:33 GMT -5
I have seen them made of cherry, mahogany, and walnut. Here is an interesting site. www.jamesjonesinstruments.com/bowed-psalteriesThis guy says spruce, cedar, and redwood give the warmest tones. According to what I read, every string is a .010 ball end string. For the most part I agree with LJ. Cedar would be my first choice then Redwood or Mahogany. Back from Mahogany or Walnut. Sides from from a very hard stiff wood, laminated would be even better. One of the problems of getting warmth is the air volume of the body. You need more air inside to get lower frequencies to resonate. You could do a less stiff top but with the kind of tension present I don't think that would be a good idea. Don't do a tiny sound hole, it doesn't have to be huge just not restricted with fancy fretwork covers. This guy seems to have an interesting take. He says he prefers Sitka spruce for the soundboard but what I thought was interesting is he varies the spacing between the hitch posts to take into consideration both the intended note frequency and the optimum length of the string to produce the best tone at that pitch. He also uses three different string gauges.
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 17:27:49 GMT -5
I have seen them made of cherry, mahogany, and walnut. Here is an interesting site. www.jamesjonesinstruments.com/bowed-psalteriesThis guy says spruce, cedar, and redwood give the warmest tones. According to what I read, every string is a .010 ball end string. Thanks, LJ. Nice site.
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 16:29:09 GMT -5
Most folks seem to agree that rosewood brings out the most of the lower range. That not being one of the choices, I'd try to figure out which of the choices most emphasizes the low end like rosewood does. My guess might lean towards the walnut for density. But rosewood isn’t used much for guitar tops. Its use for back and sides has the effect you describe. I was thinking that mahogany is used for guitar tops and also provides a mellower tone. Don’t know how it would sound on a bowed psaltry considering the smaller soundboard and higher pitches.
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 13:15:57 GMT -5
Yes. What the hell is a bowed psaltry?
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 13:09:41 GMT -5
For some reason, the purple catagory seemed most obvious today.
Connections Puzzle #310 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 12:47:46 GMT -5
Fiddlerina needs your help.
She is looking at some bowed psaltries online. They are offered with several different tone woods as sound boards and she would like help making a choice.
The woods offered are spruce, walnut, cherry, and mahogany. I explained which woods are commonly used on acoustic instruments: guitars, violins, pianos, etc., and what I know about the tonal properties of each.
The thing is that a bowed psaltry is a very trebly sounding instrument and is in a higher register than most other instruments. Which of the offered woods will provide a rich, loud voice without being annoyingly shrill as often happens with these instruments?
I was guessing that mahogany might sound better than spruce in this situation but I'm only guessing.
Any thoughts?
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 12:11:31 GMT -5
Howard’s post prompted me to find this tired old joke (on Reddit) and post it here.
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 10:30:18 GMT -5
…there's a room for the kind of thing Mancini did. And that room goes up and down at the push of a button. ( Henry Mancini Plays “101 Strings Play the Beatles”) I know Mancini did a lot of great work and deserved all the accolades but…
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Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2024 0:42:37 GMT -5
I’ve never played Pebble Beach. The green fees alone were $300 a head. But a business associate and I had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant there. That may have been $300 too but it covered both of us.
That must have been a few years after you were there. Probably early ‘90s. I think Clint Eastwood was still Mayor of Carmel.
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Post by Dub on Apr 15, 2024 15:13:27 GMT -5
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Post by Dub on Apr 15, 2024 11:28:22 GMT -5
Today is also the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
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Post by Dub on Apr 15, 2024 10:07:55 GMT -5
Living in Chicago, I went years with no car. One doesn’t need a car in a proper city. Never missed owning one.
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Post by Dub on Apr 15, 2024 10:02:54 GMT -5
Best wishes, Daryl (is it one "r" or two?). I hope you have a great day observing another milestone. Oops, not enough Rs.
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