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Double Bass Hole in the Heart (5 String) Double Bass idea.

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#81
TroyK said:
PLEASE take this thread off topic, if we can't just let it die!



What if you just took one of them and then with eye contact were like "you wanna keep the other one, we're gonna have to get a few things straight you mix-breed half-eunech ..."?
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:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

it is a legitimate problem, really. far too many people are removing healthy organs for literally no reason.

when someone has a male german shepherd that they do nothing with other than walks at most once a day, the idea that removing organs is going to make him stop acting like a menace in the house is completely illogical.. play-based training, competing in dog sports, doing "actual stuff" with him will help. but, nobody wants to hear the truth - they want a quick fix. cut this off and the dog will be calm. yeah, ok. sure..

it's almost like if someone wanted to cut a hole in the top of a bowed string instrument and put the soundpost in the wrong place, touching the bridge foot, searching for an improvement in tone. you could explain to them all you like that the original design actually works for very clever and scientific reasons, and changing it is a lost cause. the way to get an improved instrument is to buy a more well-crafted example of the instrument, and not to use the drill on the top..

we can explain until we are blue in the face...

people gonna do what they want to do...;)
 
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my weekly meeting of the "Hole In The Hull Yacht Club".
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#86
“One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough to know you're wrong”

- these days it even seems like the less you know, the more fact resilient you get. Stupidity in its prime time. The outlook for humanity looks bleak, to put it mildly…


  • Question authority. No idea is true just because someone says so, including me, you or anyone else.
  • Think for yourself. Question yourself. Don’t believe anything just because you want to. Believing something doesn’t make it so.
  • Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment. If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it’s wrong. Get over it.
  • Follow the evidence wherever it leads. If you have no evidence, reserve judgment.
  • Remember: you could be wrong. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history — they all made mistakes. Of course they did. They were human.
    Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves, and each other.
 
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#88
Don Kasper said:
Actually, No.....A hole in the heart allows for a more thorough and rapid dispersal of blood within the human body. It's a Feature, not a Bug.
Note: I am not a Vascular Surgeon, or even a doctor, or an EMT, or a Boy Scout with a First Aid Merit Badge, but I am a 20yr. old HS graduate with a profound interest in DIY Cardio Vascular upgrades and "out of the box" thinking and solutions (to non-existent problems), that are both untested & unproven.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my weekly meeting of the "Hole In The Hull Yacht Club".
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:D

Just to be clear for anyone who doesn't get the joke, and also to help the topic drift a little bit for Troy, the hole between the atria and ventricles of the heart in people happens normally with all babies before birth while the baby is normally still not breathing for him or her self, to facilitate better blood flow.

This hole normally disappears around the time of birth. If it doesn't disappear before active childhood, it is considered a defect (ASD or VSD) which may need to be closed surgically, so that it doesn't cause energy deficits, flow problems and serious circulation problems. Some holes in the heart are small, and some people have ASD and/or VSD and don't know it, although the likelihood of symptoms is stronger later in life.
 
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TroyK said:
"Another of life's great challenges is having your balls chopped off."
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This was an implied threat of torture in warfare during the middle ages. The response of medieval knights was a protective device somewhat similar to the chastity belts women wore, only for males. For males the device was called bollocks.

(I'll show myself to the door, thank you very much.)
 
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DoubleMIDI said:
You may think so, but I doubt it.

You will loose a lot of higher partials (more correctly their volumes) because the clamping between soundpost and bridge foot forces smaller vibrant areas that radiate higher frequencies.
Dropping these high frequencies makes the bass sound baddy and dull and due to the attenuated partials the pitch is hard to hear in the low end. On the higher strings and positions the bass will sound quiet and dull since the resonance of the top hardly supports the higher partials and maybe even the fundamental for these pitches.

Please note that instruments that had a hole in the top for a combined bridge leg and soundpost were never built in the double bass range of frequencies. What might have worked for higher pitched instruments might no longer work at very low pitched instruments like the double bass.

BRW, my 5-string is not available for testing your idea.
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I plan to buy a 5 string Upright Bass in the future so I can make this idea work.
 
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DoubleMIDI said:
You may think so, but I doubt it.

You will loose a lot of higher partials (more correctly their volumes) because the clamping between soundpost and bridge foot forces smaller vibrant areas that radiate higher frequencies.
Dropping these high frequencies makes the bass sound baddy and dull and due to the attenuated partials the pitch is hard to hear in the low end. On the higher strings and positions the bass will sound quiet and dull since the resonance of the top hardly supports the higher partials and maybe even the fundamental for these pitches.

Please note that instruments that had a hole in the top for a combined bridge leg and soundpost were never built in the double bass range of frequencies. What might have worked for higher pitched instruments might no longer work at very low pitched instruments like the double bass.

BRW, my 5-string is not available for testing your idea.
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Actually for 5 string Double Bass it might help the low notes sound stronger & punchier.
 
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