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   "Kris Krieger"  wrote in message   
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   > "Ken S. Tucker"  wrote in   
   > news:653360d1-16b4-458f-a1d0-71a796628609@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com:   
   >   
   >> Please TRIM your posts!   
   >>   
   >> On May 4, 10:19 am, Kris Krieger  wrote:   
   >>> "Don"  wrote   
   >>> innews:fvk79k01cps@news3.newsguy.com:   
   >>> > Now THATS an intersting idea and will receive further   
   >>> > investigation. My wife is real big on wind chimes and we have them   
   >>> > everywhere around here. There's one that has bits of red glass on   
   >>> > it on the front porch and the hummingbirds are attracted to it.   
   >>> > Wine bottles, cut to varying lengths to alter the tones of the wind   
   >>> > blowing through them.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm very sure that the bottles have to remain closed in order to   
   >>> sound. I'm also not sure whether youd need to use what's called a   
   >>> Fipple, so as to get the airflow right.  I'd been wondering whether   
   >>> setting the bottoms into a concrete column, in a sort of "tree"   
   >>> arrangement, so that the wind would blow across th eopenings, would   
   >>> make any sound - I did see some info on Aeolian Organs (using bamboo   
   >>> pipes and ...   
   >>   
   >> Those ideas probably won't work. Gotta do the   
   >> physics of converting wind power into audio.   
   >   
   > I don;y have the info.  I'd have to do a prelim experiment - attach one   
   > to something, try it at various angles both with and without fipple, and   
   > so on.   
   >   
   > But it'd be interesting if it *could* work.   
   >   
   > meanwhile, I know that aeolian harps work, and I did see pics of a "wind   
   > organ" sort of thing, using hollow bamboo or PVC pipes - OTOH, the MP3s I   
   > heard didn't sound all that pleasant, so I'm not sure I'd personally get   
   > too involved with a bottle version...   
   >   
   >>   
   >> As a brat, I'd listen to the cabled TV mast (roof mount)   
   >> start  vibrating harmonically in a breeze, it was a neat   
   >> scary tone. It was the cables/pipe antenna combo,   
   >> vibrating via the roof into the attic and out the ceiling.   
   >> It was excellent to hear after watching a scary movie,   
   >> while lying in bed, gave me goose bumples.   
   >>   
   >> But it took a breeze that got the cable(s) going and   
   >> that energy went into the attic cavity like a plucked   
   >> string on a guitar.   
   >   
   > Well, to make an aeolian harp, you *can* just have it bare so to speak,   
   > but it's mroe efficient (from what I've read at least) to make a sort of   
   > box with a wide opening, and a small exit, and place the string(s) near   
   > the exit - you can attatch a vane on top to keep it turned into the wind   
   > (and oviously, lighter materials would work better if you want it to   
   > pivot around).   
   >   
   > Personally, I prefer tuned wind chimes, esp. bass chimes.   
   >   
   > If I was going to design an aeolian harp for myself, I'd want to set it   
   > up so that differnt "boxes" faced different directions, so the tone(s)   
   > would vary as the wind changed direction.  But as above, I'd personally   
   > prefer to make chimes, because the OOOooooo sound of wires it OK to me   
   > for a while, but not for too long.   
      
   Bass fipple.   
   I accidently typed fRipple in google and got all kinds of pix of frozen   
   nipples.   
   (everybody's laying rubber to google right now! LOL)   
   Wittle a BIG fipple and cut the bottom off the wine bottle and insert the   
   fipple in there.   
   In a 40 mph wind it would sound like a stratosquake, that is, an earthquake   
   60,000 feet in the air.   
      
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