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Re: [Phys-l] Design of experiments, a cautionary tale. Was: Re: [tap-l] pvc flute



Yeah,

They're, fippled vertical flutes.
bc, who found, except for the lowest pitch notes in the lower register, blowing easier than falling off a log.

p.s. no, the point was a make and take exercise.

John Denker wrote:

On 07/10/2007 04:44 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

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.]

ROTFL.

1) Been there, done that. No flute is easy to blow.

2a) Maybe the customers would be happier with PVC recorders?

2b) OTOH you can buy a box of plastic recorders for a few
bucks per recorder.

3) On the third hand, the nontrivial exercise of teaching kids to
blow a transverse flute is a worthwhile exercise, and maybe it
is part of the fun. It depends on the details of the situation.
(Somehow I suspect a lot of context was lost before I joined this
thread.)

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