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These would be played with protective fire suits, asbestos
gloves etc. You could have a large turbojet powering
multiple
instruments or one small (but not too small) turbojet per
player.
Now on to the metal shredding pipe organ.
Boring flute thing.
http://newt.phys.un...fluteacoustics.html
[doctorremulac3, Nov 04 2019]
Shoot!
https://www.indepen...f-ab733bfbdeaa.html
[doctorremulac3, Nov 04 2019, last modified Nov 05 2019]
A long and proud history of anti bagpipe activism!
Bagpipe_20Canceling_20Headphones
Let the record speak for itself! [doctorremulac3, Nov 06 2019]
Like this only with three thousand degree 2,500 mph velocity "wind".
https://www.faceboo...eel/844837524281012
[doctorremulac3, Aug 15 2024]
The idea, but although it looked good, sounded lousy.
https://fb.watch/t_1selw6QG/
[doctorremulac3, Aug 15 2024]
Disaster Area
https://hitchhikers.../wiki/Disaster_Area
[hippo, Aug 15 2024]
[link]
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I was just thinking of trying to learn the sax today. Maybe I'll
just wait for the touring turbos to perform instead. |
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The Touring Turbos.... ever managed a band before? You
might have what it takes. |
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//WOODwind... fire suits...//
There is something not lining up here... perhaps brass would
be a better choice than wood?
Also, I'm not sure how well a reed would handle the extreme
air-flow speeds. Again, a brass mouthpiece would probably
work better (I think...). |
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Well, a metal flute is a woodwind instrument. |
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They'd be made out of fireproof material of course or it
would be a very short concert. |
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//..flute... woodwind...//
Hmm. Hadn't thought of that. Most of your typical
"woodwind" instruments have a (single or double) reed.
Again, the high speed airflow could be either an advantage
or a problem, depending whether it works or not, especially
if the flow goes supersonic (what IS the exhaust flow speed
of a normal turbojet engine?). |
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It is important to note that both metal "woodwind" instruments such as flutes and saxophones, along with brass instruments like trumpets and cornets, are held together using numerous soldered joints, and if exposed to even modest heating (by, for example, filling them with warm Sambuca and igniting it) have an alarming tendency to self-disassemble in a very rapid, permanent and above all expensive way. |
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Might just need a new category of instruments. Just
"turbojet flute", "turbojet clarinet", "turbojet oboe". |
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Could be brass instruments as well. Turbojet trumpet,
tuba etc. It doesn't share the vibration creation
mechanism of any of these so I think you'd just have to
call it what it is. The turbojet section. |
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So you've now got strings, percussion, woodwinds, brass
and turbojet. |
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Don't forget "cannon" if you want to play the 1812. |
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Absolutely, that would be covered by the percussion
section. |
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Which I would purposefully mispronounce as the
concussion section. |
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Can you explain in more detail how the sone (the standing wave in the column of air) is formed? How is the turbojet exhaust managed and channelled to form a smooth laminar air flow? |
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There's no laminar flow when it comes out of the jet, it's
a mess, but waves form fitting into the particular space.
They
bounce off X size space, go back into the tube in the
other direction and again bounce off of X size space
further down the tube at the same frequency.
When you blow into a whistle you're taking the air
and causing it to vibrate by its oscillation after hitting
the split of the whistle slot at the mouthpiece. The size
of the tube after that, which is changed by opening and
closing the air release holes, determines the length of
the wave and the note. |
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The oscillation for this is provided by the turbine. That's
the sound you hear. This oscillation is tuned by the size
or length of the resonating chamber. |
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I believe the multi frequency mess you're blowing into
this thing would create waves forms shaped by the
resonating chamber, similar to when you blow across the
top of a bottle. Small bottle, higher pitch. Big jug, lower
pitch. |
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I put an extremely boring link up showing how flutes
work. You'd get the same effect with jet power as you
would with whistle power. |
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In that case it shouldn't be called a turbojet powered woodwind instrument; it should be perhaps called a tuned turbojet? |
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For sale: Boeing 747-400. Single octave. Low mileage.
Tuned to the key of C Major. |
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//it should be perhaps called a tuned turbojet?// |
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//For sale: Boeing 747-400. Single octave. Low
mileage. Tuned to the key of C Major.// |
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Next flight I take I'll be trying to figure out what note it's
playing. |
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I already note when the second engine starts up and you
get that weird phase interplay as one torques up to the
approximate speed of the other. |
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Actually, a four-prop piston-engined aircraft can produce some fascinating low-frequency beats and harmonics. |
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"Symphony for Lancaster and B-17" would probably be a sellout. |
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We just lost another B-17 in a crash recently, and the
next
time we have the airshow in town that sells B-24 and B-
17
rides for $450 and I don't take it I will really need to do
some soul searching about my priorities. "No no, I'm
putting my daughter through college, I need to be
thrifty!" Ugh, what's the matter with me? |
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I already missed to the opportunity to take the local
Zeppelin company's sight seeing tour of the Bay Area. |
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Your link is inaccessible from the EU, for some reason, [doc]. |
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//Tuned to the key of C Major// I'm not sure, but I strongly
suspect that all forms of jet engine are engineered not to
have a resonant frequency. |
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[MaxwellBuchanan] it's a rotating shaft; of course it has a
resonant frequency. Typically it is much much higher than
the normal operating conditions (at least for the rotating
things I've worked with). |
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(Max) The headline is: "B-17 Crash Signals Changes For
Vintage Airplane Rides". |
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So next time you get a chance, these won't be around
forever. |
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//"Symphony for Lancaster and B-17" would
probably be a sellout.// |
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So they'd cover your bass notes, then get the Rolls Royce
Merlin engines with your P-51s and Spitfires for your
upper registers. |
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At some point in the quest for volume, it must be simpler just
to create a cochlear implant capable of operating in the kV
range. |
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I am 100% anti bagpipes! Ask 8, it's the only thing we
agree on! I demand a retrial! |
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//warm sambuca and igniting it// |
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Not the first thing you think of when you pick up a
saxophone. That probably applies to other
instruments too. |
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It's more a case of what you think of when you've already drunk quite a bit of warm sambuca, then tried setting fire to it in saucers and ashtrays with modest success but undramatic consequences, and then become enamoured with the possibility of a human-powered musical flame blunderbuss. |
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Now that would be worth trying with bagpipes! |
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And I'd have it play the exact song in the link. |
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Pretty sure Disaster Area tried this |
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Didn't find anything under the band name. Found the thing in the link but was wildly dissapointed though. |
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Gotta sound good, that sounded like somebody blowing over a bottle. |
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Did look pretty awesome though. |
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