[Phys-l] What's with our list app.? Was: Re: Design of experiments, a cautionary tale. Was: Re: [tap-l] pvc flute

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

It suppressed the sentence I had bolded.

bc, now knows to emphasize in another manner.

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

>  Pati,
>
> I did this some years ago for a kids Summer science class. I spent  
> several months designing the flutes. I would try them out, tweak the  
> design and improve on them until finally I was satisfied. I then  
> designed a jig for the drill press so that the kids could safely bore  
> the holes. Then I ran into trouble. The flutes that I thought were so  
> easy to blow were proving difficult for the kids. Going back over what  
> I had done, I realized that it wasn't so much that I had progressively  
> improved my designs as simply gotten better at playing the flute.  [bc 
> emphasis.] So I  
> rescued the situation by calling around to a few music teachers and  
> getting a recommendation for a flute teacher who liked to work with  
> young kids. She had them tooting away the next day. So my advice is no  
>
>  
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