"-rick-" wrote in message
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--
10-3 Denver at halftime, will the Pats come back?

Bad calls or not, the Pats are just not playing to their capacity. Must be
the thin air.

Eisboch

Doug Kanter wrote:
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DSK wrote:


Which Alembic do you own?
a '77 Series 1 built by Michael Dolan and Rob Turner

-rick- wrote:


Maybe some day I'll find time to experiment with a low power
tube amp and novel ways of crippling it.
-rick-

you could always take a pocket knife to the speaker cones..

SNARF!!!!

Don White wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


i wonder how long i can keep this thread alive....


At the risk of sounding wimpy......
ever see some kind of finger thimble that a person could use to keep
your fingers from touching two strings at once?
I'm thinking of something plastic that would go over your 4 frettin'
fingers.

Tommy Iommi was the guitarist for Black Sabbath, and he lost a cople
fingertips in a butcher shop meat saw. He tired fingertip prosthysis,
but that didnt' work well because he couldn't feel the strings with his
left hand. So...

he did without them, and so far (almost 40 years) he's done pretty
good for himself.

you have a '56 strat?

Where to hell did I say I had an original '56 strat????????

no offense, but i don't believe it. there can't be more than ten of
those left in the world.


What would be even more rare would be an origional '54 Strat. That's
the first year they were produced.... and only a few hand fulls at that.

Harry Krause wrote:


I'm telling you, there's just nothing quite like rec.boats.

There's no such thing as a STRATOVARIUS Violin, unless it exists as a joke.

There are the many wonderful stringed instruments made by Antonio
Stradivari, violins and cellos mostly, and these commonly are called
Stradivarius instruments, because the maker used Latin to label his
products, and "Latinized" his last name.



And now, back to your regularly scheduled servings of misinformation...

AND! Most of the Stradavari instruments weren't even made by him, but
by his apprentices. Kind of like saying that Leo Fender made guitars.
He didn't. he made electronics, but did come up with the designs for
the then Broadcaster guitar the Strat was actually team designed
between Freddie Tavares and George Fullerton, as well as then country
western great Bill Carson Bill was the "test pilot"

Leo's gig was the electronics. and his amps were mostly copies from
Western Electric blueprints. Leo was shrewd.....

Yo-Yo Ma, the renowned cellist, plays a Strad, not a Strat. His is the
famous Davidov cello. He inherited it from the late. wonderful, and
greatly missed Jacqueline du Pre.

Ah, Jacqueline DuPre. One of the finest cellists of the 20 century!
too bad MS claimed her at a young age of 42....

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DSK wrote:


Which Alembic do you own?
a '77 Series 1 built by Michael Dolan and Rob Turner


My birthday's March 13th. Send it over, please. :-)

The one with the separate blue power supply box? I used to have one of
those. For a number of reasons, I stopped playing for a while. Sold it to
add to the boat money pot. I never really got to enjoy it as much as I would
now because I didn't have the time and focus to experiment with strings &
various amps & cabinets.

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:16:05 -0500, " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT
comREMOVETHIS wrote:


"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:11:43 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:05:46 -0800, -rick- wrote:

oh crap, Moss just got a gift in the end zone.

if the seahawks are the best of the nfc, the nfc is gonna lose another
one.

The Seahawks were the second best. We got robbed. Obvious pass
interference
in the end zone. Chicken refs. Paid off.
--
John H



http://tinyurl.com/8bgks

Come on John. Be a gracious loser. The Redskins have nothing to be ashamed
of and I am sure you enjoyed the past 19 weeks watching them play. ;-)


Gracious?

I told you I had big money on this game.

Gracious, smacious. I get to whine. Inherent right and all that.
--
John H

******Have a spectacular day!******

JohnH wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:16:05 -0500, " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT
comREMOVETHIS wrote:

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:11:43 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:05:46 -0800, -rick- wrote:

oh crap, Moss just got a gift in the end zone.
if the seahawks are the best of the nfc, the nfc is gonna lose another
one.
The Seahawks were the second best. We got robbed. Obvious pass
interference
in the end zone. Chicken refs. Paid off.
--
John H


http://tinyurl.com/8bgks

Come on John. Be a gracious loser. The Redskins have nothing to be ashamed
of and I am sure you enjoyed the past 19 weeks watching them play. ;-)


Gracious?

I told you I had big money on this game.

Gracious, smacious. I get to whine. Inherent right and all that.
--
John H

******Have a spectacular day!******
JohnH,
It is more than an inherent right, it is your God Given Right as an
American to bitch and complain anytime your team loses. Don't let
anyone try to take away your rights.

--
Reggie
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:58:41 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:23:21 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"-rick-" wrote in message
...
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

nothing like that transformer sound.

It's interesting how the old tube amps with output transformers were
pretty bad in terms of bandwidth and fidelity yet had more pleasing
distortion, especially when pushed hard and the non-linear speaker load
reflected back to the output tubes and the wimpy tube rectifier power
supply started sagging. It makes a pretty complex system when combined
with room acoustics, guitar resonances, and multiple feedback paths.

Theres been a lot of work on DSP emulation and modeling that so far I've
not found nearly as satisfying but it's sure nice to be able to come close
at low volume.

oh crap, Moss just got a gift in the end zone.

-rick-

Saw an interesting study on amplifier distortion ratings recently. Typically
expressed as "THD" or Total Harmonic Distortion, it is generally considered
that the lower the number the better, resulting in amps with ratings of 1%
or less, often much less.

Turns out that in a series of blind tests with a control group for
comparison that were told what levels of distortion existed, the human ear
is very non-sensitive to relatively high levels of distortion. Furthermore,
the ear is frequency dependent in it's ability to detect distortion. I
forget the exact numbers, but it was something like above 8khz the ear was
most sensitive and both the blind group and the control group detected
distortion at about 3 percent. As the frequency lowered, both groups were
unable to detect higher levels of THD. At low frequencies (bass) it took
almost 100% THD for the groups to detect any distortion. Both group results
were almost identical also.

I also remember reading about Carver amps which were of a "magnetic amp"
design. Bob Carver, the designer of the original Carver amp claimed the
same thing as the tests described above. Carver amps typically have a much
higher THD rating than those of comparable competitors.

Oh, well. Useless information on a rainy day, 40 minutes from kickoff of
the Patriot's next victory on the way to the SB.

being a sufferer of perfect pitch, i can tell when something is
distorted or out of tune with reasonable accuracy.

i almost never listen to anything loud and i dont attend concerts for
much the same reason - the sound can just turn into noise for me.

then again, its a perfect excuse not to take the wife anywhere.

There were three instances in the show last night when I winced because of
a singer being 'off pitch' or 'off key'. Usually it was because they
couldn't hold the note as long as they tried to hold it.
--
John H

******Have a spectacular day!******