May 6, 2004
Kathleen Morimoto's phonograph
As I mentioned cryptically a few days ago, my student Kathleen, inspired by her fellow classmates' oral presentation on paleoacoustics (aka archaeoacoustics), was plucky enough to build her own phonograph with the help of her boyfriend, Bernie. She's posted a diary of their adventures in sound on the class blog.
While they've managed to record on the wax cylinder, the playback at this point is indistinguishable from static. I suspect they'll keep troubleshooting in hopes of getting better results. One possibility is that the stylus is dragging too heavily across the wax rather than tapping it in a more digital style.
Kathleen's let me borrow it for a few days to experiment with . . .
Posted by karik at May 6, 2004 11:08 PM | TrackBackMaybe my pedagogical practice is just more sadistic, but I would have been far more impressed, albeit perhaps slightly freaked out by your students relationship with her boyfriend, if she had produced an "ear phonautograph". Seriously, way cool, Kari's student Kathleen, and perhaps food for my teaching files.
Yes, orals were passed today. I'll be hunting down that adman for a tutorial probably within the month (many other things to attend to which may or may not be discussed in my inaugural entry).
Posted by: Midnight Platypus at May 7, 2004 2:44 AM |
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Congratulations, Marty! That means now really is the opportune time to start blogging (you can use the blog's database features to manage dissertation information: citations, rough notes, random thoughts, and more polished prose. I haven't really done this so much myself, but Jason Rhody over at Miscellany certainly has).
Posted by: kari at May 7, 2004 8:11 AM |
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But an ear phonautograph! C'mon, you're supposed to go "ick" or something. It used a real "live" extracted human ear and I get no reaction?
Posted by: Midnight Platypus at May 7, 2004 9:59 AM |
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Oops, sorry: the grimace didn't translate onto the screen. ;-/
Gross-out humour is always welcome here (it's second only to scatalogical . . . )
Posted by: kari at May 7, 2004 10:22 AM |
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