Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!herbie From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Re: Shuttle Project? Message-ID: <929@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 14:18:21 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.929 Posted: Sat Feb 9 14:18:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 05:18:19 EST References: <32@pbear.UUCP> <136@bigtuna.UUCP> <628@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Organization: U of Waterloo Lines: 30 Summary: In article <628@amdcad.UUCP> mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) writes: >> > >> > but if the string is played in vacuum, then the friction of the air >> > is removed, and the sutain is much longer. >> > >> >> Sustain of what? No air -- no sound. >> -- >> Richard Foulk (..islenet!bigtuna!richard) >> Honolulu, Hawaii > >I believe the original discussion was about electric guitars, >which need no air to produce sound. ( At least the guitar needs >no air, it helps if the speaker is put where there is air ) > >Mike @ AMDCAD perhaps i am missing something really obvious, but don't electric guitars have pickups that are effectively mini-microphones? if so, then air is definitely needed. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu