Shout your happy news to the world!!!

[Interference]

You've got an octave imagination.

Have you tried tripple-tonguing and all the usual flourishes?

Ok, I sense the heavy hand of a non-musical mod approaching hot-foot, but it's a sensible and innocent question

[chrispenycate]

Surely they'd just bore a straight hole down the middle; not only would carving it out be a huge amount of (unnecessary) work, you'd get varying intervals as the diameter varied – horrible to predict. You often get the problem with bamboo flutes, that thirds which are precise in one range are way out in another (though I suppose the problem is only when you compare with another instrument; as an essentially solo, possibly (from the meditation angle) even solitary tool, and monophonic to boot, unless you had perfect pitch the shifting harmonics might not bother you).

And it's just about only English which doesn't call a recorder a flute. The French say "flûte à bec" (although that one doesn't seem to have a "beak" to put lips around, so it isn't quite a recorder, either), the Germans "blockflöte, Italians flauta de bec. They all recognise that a resonating tube of air whose resonance can be varied with finger holes (a technique so ancient there doesn't seem to be a culture on Earth that lacks it) is essentially the same instrument whether the original turbulence is generated by the whistle method or bottle blowing.


Timbre of a reed? Are you sure it hasn't got a reed hidden away inside it somewhere (like a crumhorn or what's that other? Bombarde, shawm, lizard)? Or bagpipe, of course. I've never known a flute give reed harmonics. I think we're just going to have to call it a 'meditation pipe', and hope no-one asks what we're smoking in it.

I sense the heavy hand of a non-musical mod approaching hot-foot,

Non musical? I resent that allegation. And unless the original signal generation is by brass type raspberry fluttering, multiple tounging is going to do nothing for you.

[Interference]

I thought you were going to maybe get into "alternative scales" for a moment, Chris, as I was just starting to wonder myself about the actual tuning and coming to a slightly similar conclusion. The fingering is spaces - I was going to say "oddly", but I'm sure it's nothing if not "appropriately".

[Ursa major]

See, Inter, a musical Mod has turned up, and one who's hinting that things are better when they're well-tempered.

[Interference]

*eerily spooky music*

I sensed his arrival at this time.


Well, at least he's an even-tempoed sort

[Parson]

I'm a grandfather for the fourth time. Tyson Alan was born on Jan. 11.

[alchemist]

Congratulations, Parson. And to all those involved too. He sure looks like a boxer.

I became an uncle-in-law for the first time last week. I can't claim much credit for this.

[Ursa major]

Congratulations, Parson.

You must indeed be very happy.

[Perpetual Man]

Way Hey! Congratulation Parson, to you and your family!

And to Alchemist and his too!

[Vertigo]

Congratulations to you both! And to the ones that did the real work

[Mouse]

Congrats Parson! (And alc!)

I have some happy news! Some of you might know that I was all set to move house last June, only it all fell through.

Well, like an idiot, I got rid of my bed. I just gave it away. So, I haven't had a bed since June.

Tomorrow, I'm getting a bed! Sunday night I'll be sleeping in a bed!

[alchemist]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Congrats Parson! (And alc!)

I have some happy news! Some of you might know that I was all set to move house last June, only it all fell through.

Well, like an idiot, I got rid of my bed. I just gave it away. So, I haven't had a bed since June.

Tomorrow, I'm getting a bed! Sunday night I'll be sleeping in a bed!

That's, er, bizarre. But congratulations! You'll be back on the floor within two nights.

[Interference]

I was also going to say "congratulations, Parson", but then I got to thinking-- all you did, really, was take the phone call. So, congratulations, Parson: The Next Generation however, added respect for the grandparenting ahead.

However, knowing how tough uncling can be: Respect, Alc

[Vertigo]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Congrats Parson! (And alc!)

I have some happy news! Some of you might know that I was all set to move house last June, only it all fell through.

Well, like an idiot, I got rid of my bed. I just gave it away. So, I haven't had a bed since June.

Tomorrow, I'm getting a bed! Sunday night I'll be sleeping in a bed!

Nice one Mouse. I do know the feeling; OK I didn't give my bed away but...

In the heady days of my youth some of my friends couldn't understand why I was sleeping on a matress on the floor whilst the Matchless (old Brit motorbike) I was rebuilding fully occupied my bed. That lasted for quite some time!

[TheTomG]

Congratulations for both greatly-welcomed new arrivals (grandchild in one case, a bed in another.) Sounds like someone is going to get much less sleep, and someone is going to get much more!