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

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

I <emphasize> important words with <brakets>.
				Regards,
					<Jack>

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> 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
> cut
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