Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Jeff Scott]

What is the ideal lung capacity to produce 30 hz? How much lung capacity do I really need to produce that tone if I have a passive high pass filter mouthpiece? Anyone have an excursion graph for the reeds?

Sadly Taylor Guitar's Andy Powers has recently begun using the term "lung capacity" to help describe acoustic guitar capability. It's in the latest W&S propaganda rag. Makes me want to burn the Taylor I have. Hey, how many BTUs can one get from the average Taylor guitar?

 

[beans-on-toast]

The St. Patrick’s Day parade was scheduled for today but lung capacity is causing a problem. They haven’t missed one in almost 200 years since they started. They intend on staging it but the parade has been postponed indefinitely. WWI and WWII didn’t get in the way.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

 

[GwenOnBass]

"Lung capacity" has a different connotation when Benny Hill works it into a routine.

 

[GwenOnBass]

The polka band wagon is looking for him.

 

[2tonic]

Distant relative???

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Those are Imperial Japanese aircraft listening stations for field deployment.
In effect, a very large stethoscope to listen for approaching aircraft, detect them at the furthest range then possible (before radar), and direct antiaircraft artillery fire upon them.
Actually, they were surprisingly effective until the advent of high altitude (20,000 ft+) bombers.
Other nations had similar devices until supplanted by radar.

 

[2tonic]

Yep. There are a coupla contrabass saxes: 1 an octave below a bari, another an octave below a bass. Then there's this-the tubax(I'm not making that up)sub contrabass sax
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What is the ideal lung capacity to produce 30 hz? How much lung capacity do I really need to produce that tone if I have a passive high pass filter mouthpiece? Anyone have an excursion graph for the reeds?

The most efficient operation of the "Tubax" is to place the mouthpiece directly in front of a 15" bass driver, powered by a blue line Ampeg SVT, and pump a 5 string bass through it at max volume, in order to generate the necessary atmospheric pressure to drive an air column through the instrument.
The 15" must be driven with tube watts because...........

Well, just because.

 

[beans-on-toast]

It doesn’t sound like it has a lot of tone without the lower registers mixed in. Maybe it was just the venue and the recording.

Maybe when it comes to sax, size matters.

 

[Jeff Scott]

 

[GwenOnBass]

Maybe when it comes to sax, size matters.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Note the mute sponge. It looks like a yellow sponge with maybe a piece of green felt in top. It provides a good sound, something that I'll try. I have felt picks (Dunlop) that make a nice muted sound over any other type of pick. So felt on a mute isn't a stretch. On a pick it works well.

The song is well played.

 

[GonePlaid]

The polka band wagon is looking for him.

Some of these tiny or gigantic instruments bring to mind people building stretch limos out of Smart cars-why??

 

[GonePlaid]

For some reason Yoot oob isn't playing today. Too many requests?

 

[GonePlaid]

Note the mute sponge. It looks like a yellow sponge with maybe a piece of green felt in top. It provides a good sound, something that I'll try.

The song is well played.

It looks like a small 'wrecked angle' cut from one of those sponges that has a scratchy pad surface on the back.

 

[beans-on-toast]

For some reason Yoot oob isn't playing today. Too many requests?

No problems for me. I just retried that video and it worked. There is a lot of internet traffic though, maybe your provider has the resources taxed.
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[spiritbass]

For some reason Yoot oob isn't playing today. Too many requests?

Many, many churches were streaming services through YouTube...

 

[beans-on-toast]

It looks like a small 'wrecked angle' cut from one of those sponges that has a scratchy pad surface on the back.

I thought the same and wondered how a scouring pad would affect the strings. At a hardware store today I saw a tile grouting sponge with a thick microfiber layer on the top. I wonder if anything more than a sponge would be needed. That's all that Fender supplied with their PBasses back then.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I thought the same and wondered how a scouring pad would affect the strings.

About like Groundskeeper Willie showering with a bar of Lava soap, I'd imagine.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The J5 song above has a lot of notes. For those that don't recall, the youtube playback speed can be slowed down by bringing up the video, click on the gear, select a speed less than normal.

 

[GonePlaid]

I thought the same and wondered how a scouring pad would affect the strings. At a hardware store today I saw a tile grouting sponge with a thick microfiber layer on the top. I wonder if anything more than a sponge would be needed. That's all that Fender supplied with their PBasses back then.

As far back as it is and the fact the strings aren't likely to move much there, should be ok-and really clean.