I only play a toy theorbo in public. The Lorenz Fitzgerald contractions. Horrible. dt
At 07:47 PM 2/16/2009, you wrote: >And then, since we are in a gravity well, you'll need to account for the >local curvature of space... > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Clair [mailto:rcl...@elroberto.com] >Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 7:29 PM >To: Lute List >Cc: howard posner >Subject: [LUTE] Theorbo Relativity > > While I think that Howard has made an excellent beginning on a theory > of Relativity of Theorbo Toyness, I think it's > > incomplete as it stands. To completely specify whether the theorbo is > toy or not we need to know if the theorbo is > > in motion relative to the listener, the speed, whether the theorbo is > oriented perpendicular of parallel to the direction of motion (if > parallel, the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction will affect the string > length) and whether the theorbo is approaching or receding > > (the Doppler effect will modify the pitch standard). > > >You can have hours of fun by guessing exactly what "relatively small >size" makes a theorbo a "toy" under Martin's criteria, then changing >the assumed pitch level and doing it again. Martin misses the fun >because he doesn't acknowledge that pitch is relevant to the question >of instrument size, which spares him a lot of work with the more >advanced branches of mathematics, such as multiplication and division. > >The part about Martyn's view of what size theorbos I "favor" -- as if >I actually had theorbo preferences based on size, and there were >someone else on the planet who cared what those preferences were -- >is new, I think, and is silly without being funny. As far as I can >tell, if Martyn thought about such things, he would say my theorbo is >a toy at A92, definitely not a toy at AD0, and probably not a toy >at AA5, before realizing that there was something wrong with his >categorical one-size-fits-all construct. But he doesn't think of >such things. Hence the joke. > > -- > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
