On 12 May 2011, at 16:00, cal...@aol.com wrote:
> You'll note that flutes, shawms, sackbutts (gotta love that name) and other
> instruments that are directly mouth-blown are far more prone to
> cracking,
Flutes and shawms, yes. But sackbutts, definitely no!
Francis
To get on or off this
Why do you think "Mythbusters" is such a popular show? Because there's
such a vast pile of pseudo-science out there.
Assuming we're talking about dry-blown pipes, there's next to nothing
to create a difference in lifespan between playing them and keeping
them in the box. Yes, soun
Maybe not totally relevant, but in my (much) younger days when
carrying around a sliderule as a student, it was claimed that the
best sliderules were made of bamboo coz they didn't expand like metal
ones and were self-lubricating. Indeed, to smoothly ease into small
gradations a prior pump
