User talk:Rsholmes

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[edit] Clarinet manufacturers

That's much clearer than the way I had it initially (hiding the Conn-Selmer info). Thanks! --SarekOfVulcan 04:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plastic bass clarinets

I'll defer to you on this one. I've never performed with a bass clarinetist who used a plastic instrument and in fact never knew they were made of plastic. You'd better fix it the way you know it because I get the impression you play these instruments. I'm an oboe/english horn guy! BTW if you want to post on a User talk page just go to that user's page and click the "discussion" tab up top. Then sign with 4 tildes. Nice talking with you. Badagnani 06:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarinet makers

Good job on creating the Clarinet makers page. Bcem2 21:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Kempe

I noticed your additions to the article on William Kempe and was wondering if you have a source for the dating controversy, as I'd love to add it to the text. Cheers, Ziggurat 02:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the prod, I had that information in an old email since lost; I've now asked for the information again and will be updating the page. - Rsholmes 12:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Aha! Thanks, I shall go update one or two pages that reference the date. Good addition! Ziggurat 20:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contrabass clarinet

Do you have a source for the information you added to Contrabass clarinet? I don't doubt it's true, but there's nothing about clarinets on Eppelsheim's web page, and I'm not sure if his new design is notable enough for inclusion in any case. Powers 17:36, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Acoustic Resonance

Hey thanks for helping me last time with my questions on Acoustic Resonance. I have some more questions and wondered if you could answer them. I plan to build an open wind instrument myself. Is it possible to take a note, say A=440hz, and plug it into the equation f = {nv \over 2L} to find the length of the tube? If so, how do I use "n" in that context.

Thanks 69.167.148.176 22:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Look further down on the acoustic resonance article: Resonance of a tube of air.
For an open cylindrical or conical wind instrument you have f = {nv \over 2L} with n = 1 for the lowest notes, n = 2 for the notes in the higher register you get by overblowing, n = 3 for the next register above that, in the ideal case. In practice a real instrument is not exactly an ideal cylinder or cone. For one thing L is the effective length of the tube, and is only approximately equal to the actual length. You can try to work with more complex models of real-world instruments but these will still be approximations; fine tuning will still be pretty much a matter of trial and error. So, for instance, if you were building a transverse flute from PVC pipe, you might use the formula to estimate L -- then cut a piece of PVC longer than that. Longer partly because you need to add the length from the closed of the flute to the embouchure hole, and partly because it's easier to make a long tube short than to make a short tube long! Drill the embouchure hole, then blow on it and see what note you get. Hopefully it's flat. Then you can start shortening the tube until it's the right pitch.
Then there's the matter of drilling tone holes. Again, there are formulas you can work from, but it's best to take those as a guide and drill the holes too small initially -- one at a time, starting from the bottom. Again, drill them too small because it's easier to open up a too small hole than to close up a too big one. Tune one hole at a time, then go on to the next higher one.
And then you probably have to go back and re-tune, because the effect of the closed holes above an open hole is to lower the pitch, so you may have to shorten the tube some more and open up each hole some more.
Google for homemade flutes, you'll find some good information.
Actually I've never made a flute; I made a clarinet once, same general principle. I was working from a spreadsheet and kept getting notes sharper than expected -- the holes needed to be much smaller than what I calculated. Probably something wrong with my spreadsheet. -- Rsholmes 02:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Morris Dance link deletion

The user had few contributions and was adding external links to multiple articles. it is a behaviour pattern that tends to worry me.Geni 11:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

experence suggests that most of the time it is an extreamly good criteria but in this case I've put the links back. Which morris side are you with?Geni 12:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] None are

Hi, thanks for your detailed interrogation of this. The way I'd learned it, "none are" (in reference to number rather than quantity) would always be wrong, because "none" is a contraction of "not one." So that is completely new to me! Do you think the source is a good one? Badagnani 17:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

I've noticed a bunch of people doing this, so I decided I'd mention it when I saw it. Rollback is really for outright vandalism and clear tests. When someone is clearly trying to contribute to the encyclopedia, it is polite to revert them with an explanatory edit summary, not to simply use the rollback button. Thanks, Mak (talk) 15:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarinet template

Well, that's cool (comprehensive and useful), but it doesn't mean you should remove the clarinet category from the article, does it? --Herald Alberich 00:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Hello Rsholmes. You may be interested in this. Cheers, Fang Aili talk 19:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: External link deletion, such a long list is completely useless IMO, as well as way outside Wiki guidelines. You're welcome about the heads up. :) --Fang Aili talk 20:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Howdy. See Wikipedia:External links. --Fang Aili talk 21:20, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
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