A set of twelve spoons, seven white and five black, increasing in length by the twelfth root of two from the smallest to the largest.
Beat out a tune as you are waiting for the soup.-- neelandan, Mar 24 2004 you, too, can play the spoons http://www.spoonplayer.com/ [po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] Soundgarden's Spoonman http://www.lyrics00...ONMAN%20Lyrics.html [theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] And now: "Chopsticks in Spoons." +-- Detly, Mar 24 2004 Your 2¹², 2¹¹... 2 recipe for success is a bit unwieldy.-- thumbwax, Mar 24 2004 It beats playing with your food.-- FarmerJohn, Mar 24 2004 Thumbwax: the twelfth root of 2 is 1.059463, not, um, 2.-- kropotkin, Mar 24 2004 So [neelandan] you use 12 spoons every time you eat soup?
Also, long ago, hillbillies learned how to use spoons as musical...instruments(?) by banging them on one's knee. But your idea is a major improvement on this, seeing as how you can get different notes. Croissant.-- echo, Mar 24 2004 you're echoing my link, echo.-- po, Mar 24 2004 And I'm echoing [echo]'s show of support. Croissant!-- Letsbuildafort, Mar 24 2004 A spoonful of sugary confectionery to you for this one. Wouldn't a basic kit include two sets of 12, however, since they're used in pairs? Nasty dissonances if you co-clink two adjacent ones in the series.-- phlogiston, Mar 24 2004 Doh! Thanks kropotkin - indeedly-do, "of" is the key word.-- thumbwax, Mar 24 2004 I love musical ideas. But with what do you beat out a tune? Shouldn't the spoons be hung up for maximum vibration? perhaps on fishing line, and you could use a metal chop stick. or a wine glass only 1/3 full of water. Lets break out all the silverware and see what they sound like!-- dentworth, Mar 24 2004 I have an issue with the term "chromatic" being used to describe things that are black and white. And like thumbwax, I think your sizing sounds off. But apart from that, yeah, croissant.-- DrCurry, Mar 24 2004 The 12th root of 2 (or 1.059463) is exactly right for equal temperament tuning; if the first spoon is 10 cm long, the next one would be 10.594 cm (a half-step lower in pitch), then 11.225 cm, and so on, until the 13th spoon*, which is 20 cm (or one octave lower than the first.)
*You'd need 13 spoons to cover a full octave.
"Chromatic" is the term in music that refers to all 12 notes (the black keys and the white keys on a piano) as opposed to "diatonic," which relates to just 7 different notes (the white piano keys in the key of C Major.)-- AO, Mar 24 2004 Top link, [theirC] - I was playing the album as we speak. 'Chromatic Death' is a track by Anthrax and very good it is too!-- gnomethang, Mar 24 2004 I would bundle the spoons with a set of 12 (or 13) drinking glasses marked with a "fill to here" line for the appropriate level of fluid to get a chromatic scale. Package them in a sturdy paper or plastic box with areas of different thickness and you get a drum set, too. But wait, you also get....(sorry too many late-night TV commercials).-- RooneDitoff, Mar 25 2004 random, halfbakery