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Re: the Glass Harmonica!
Hi!
>
> The GH's principal is familiar to anyone who ever ran a wet thumb
> around the rim of a crystal glass with water in it; and of course
> changing the volume of water changes (to precision) the pitch of the
> ensuing tone. At a fancy hotel bar mitzvah reception, me and a dozen
You can find an excelent paper about physics of GH in an issue of
Scientfic American one or two years ago.
Cheers,
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Xavier Otazu-Porter
Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia
Facultat de Fisica
Universitat de Barcelona
Avgda. Diagonal 647
08028 Barcelona
SPAIN
xotazu@am.ub.es
http://www.am.ub.es/~jorge/xavier/xavier.html
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