Subject: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,Richard H Date: 26 Dec 04 - 11:15 PM I was practising a newly-acquired soprano sax this morning and hit a rather impressive high D which I sustained. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion in the kitchen. A one-pint glass had shattered into little pieces none bigger than 1/4 inch. My wife says the individual fragments continued to vibrate furiously for a while afterwards. I've heard of shattering glass with your voice and found the following on the Net: "The likelihood of the glass shattering increases with the Q value for the resonance of interest. You can tell what the resonant frequencies are by just hitting the glass with a fork (I do this at parties all the time) and the Q value would be determined by the length of time the tone the glass makes takes to decay till you cannot hear it any more." I know about the G-spot on a soprano (that's where Kenny plays) but don't have a clue about Q value or resonance of interest. The glass hadn't been in a microwave and was last used about 2 hours before. It had no cracks or chips. Could the sax have shattered it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: mack/misophist Date: 26 Dec 04 - 11:21 PM I know of one other case where the same thing happened. You're guilty as charged. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST Date: 27 Dec 04 - 01:05 AM The fact that the glass shattered is due to the fact that the fundamental frequency, or possibly one of the overtones, of the note played by the sax is equal to the mechanical resonance frequency of the glass (or at least damn close to it). So, the soundwaves travelled through the air from the sax to the glass and set the glass to vibrating at its resonant frequency which means that the motion of the glass continues to build as it is stimulated until it comes unglued. The Q factor is the Quality factor of the glass. This is a measure of the sharpness of the resonant frequency. High Q means a sharp resonance which responds to a narrow range of frequencies but gives a bigger response if stimulated in that range. Low Q means that the range is wider but the response is less. Had enough? If not, click. Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Mr Red Date: 27 Dec 04 - 05:05 AM FWIW Glass is not a solid. It may look like a hard shiny surface to you and if hit it will shatter. So will toffee and tar. It is all a question of temperature. Glass has no latent heat of fusion, it is what those in know call a supercooled liquid. This may have some bearing on the effect - so will the surface tension that builds-up when it is so far below its pliable temperature. Not a lot of people know that......... |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: gnu Date: 27 Dec 04 - 05:25 AM I've felt shattered after sax before. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: fat B****rd Date: 27 Dec 04 - 05:26 AM Wow ! I've heard of 14 miles on a clear night ....but several feet in a KITCHEN !! Sidney Bechet would be proud of ya. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,Obie Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:01 AM Someone just had to say this: "People who live in glass houses shouldn't play (sax) phones!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:07 AM Sympathetic Vibration Physics Google that, SVP. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:52 AM The fact is that everything solid has its own frequency and if that frequency is reached sonically something will happen to it..even shattering. When someone scratches their fingernails down a blackboard...what does it make us feel....they are reaching our frequency and our brains react by making us cover ears etc. This phenonenom was used to torture prisoners in the Second world war and subsequent wars by means of electronic equipment.....Nasty devices. Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:05 AM I wonder if I'm shattering amoeba when I run my fingers down the whiteboard? |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Allan C. Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:35 AM Sounds as though you weren't practicing safe sax. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:59 AM This is of course the reason that only crappy glassware survives. All the good quality stuff... |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:05 AM OK. You guys have opened this can of worms. Am I going to be the first guy to say what he thought this thread was REALLY about? Guess so, huh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,shycat Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:16 AM here you go brucie |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 08:25 AM Thank you, shycat. Very much. BM |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Dec 04 - 09:08 AM Thanks for the website shycat......Ever listened intently to the Beachboys "Good vibrations"....we also use the expression "Good or bad vibes" to describe feelings about others..mmmmm, now is there something in that? Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Bill D Date: 27 Dec 04 - 09:38 AM after viewing that website, I found my ethereal cosmic consciousness had been transduced into a state of boundless disrhambic chakras, vibrating in harmonious conjunction with acoustic fields derived from channeling Edgar Cayce while listening to the Beach Boys in a geodesic dome inside a pyramid which had been oriented toward the confluence of spiritual energies emanating from celestial manifestations of massed sensory nodes inherently located within my own attempts at focused spiritual enlightenement. What a revelation! |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:15 AM I like "G" better than "Q". Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:30 AM Dave, that's what I thought it was about. Now Bill's channeling Edgar Cayce (and probably Jeanne Dixon), the Beach Boys (and probably the Rolling Stones played backwards), and now the gates of Hell may open when he gets to Mother's Little Helper. He's speaking in tongues (because I don't think what he wrote above is English), and the whole known universe could be in real trouble here. I mean, the only thing worse is getting your electricity supplier mad at you when they make a mistake on your billing and tell you you owe $739,421.93 on your November bill and they don't want to hear that you didn't use that much electricity in your two-bedroom house with no cyclotron in the basement. John had his John had revelation and now Bill's having one, too. It's time to get a little nervous here. BM |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:36 AM I thought it appeared that Bill was a little inebriated with his own verbosity and wondered if he was insinuating that we should tolerate such diabolic literacy from his personage. If so his presuptions could be precisely incorrect. Bill you are seriously an artist with words. Best wishes, Mike. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:37 AM " John had his John had revelation and now Bill's having one, too. It's time to get a little nervous here." s/b John had his revelation and now Bill's . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Bill D Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:59 AM georgiansilver..I lugubriously remonstrate your felicitations with ALL due concatenations... but I must confess that my revelations have been seriously confabulated by a good dose of Epsom salts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:07 AM 2-4-6-8 Time to transubstantiate. T Lehrer |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:13 AM "I lugubriously remonstrate your felicitations" I ain't gonna tell you guys what this sounds like. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Bill D Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:28 AM good thing I didn't confess that I gesticulate while I masticate. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: diesel Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:34 AM Hi My tuppence worth is that the Q in frequency is not the quality of the glass (as in Bev's and Jerry's above) but is the efficiency of the delivery of the frequency. We see it (Q) being used to develop Rf systems in plasma and communications generation and how it applies to transmission of a frequency into a load such as an aerial for broadcast or a chamber for plasma generation etc. In practical terms the higher the Q value (through some maths that I don't understand) the more efficient the delivery of the frequency. If the frequency you were playing was poor or varied, the build up of harmonics in the glass would have been inhibited or at best - varied, but as the delivery was more efficient, the harmonics developed were sustained long enough to shatter the glass by basically vibrating it to bit's. A note - if the glass was cracked it may have been more difficult to shatter due to the crack interferring with the resonations. Diesel |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:40 AM Bill, does your wife know about this? |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Dec 04 - 12:21 PM I had suspected that you(like many others of us)Bill, are a masticator a fact which I will chew over in my mind before the regurgitation of any further vocabulary on the subject. Mutual mastication is something I have been involved in over Christmas which was wonderful I have to say......with all the trimmings of course. Best wishes, Mike. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Bill D Date: 27 Dec 04 - 12:42 PM I suspect that you refer to group convivial familial mastication...as 'mutual' would suggest there being only two involved. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,Spot Checking Date: 27 Dec 04 - 12:51 PM and I thought the Q spot was the Queer's erogenous homolog to a woman's G spot. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Peace Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:20 PM Out, damn Spot! |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Bev and Jerry Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:19 PM Diesel: We did not mean to say that Q is the quality of the glass. It's the "quality factor" of the resonance curve of the item made out of the glass. We also are more familiar with "Q" in electrical terms but it has an analogous meaning in mechanical terms. We have no idea why it's called "quality factor" but it is. Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,Richard H Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:40 PM Listen up, you people. I'm into goats for a living. But play a lot of music on the side. It means a lot to me, especially sax. Before this happened, my wife enjoyed me taking out my gleaming 27 inch long soprano and performing lustily. Now she's scared stiff. The replies above are great but a bit above goat-farming level. The point is, my sax life has been shattered. And I need fellow-musicians to come to my rescue and state unequivocally (if that's the right word) that I could NOT have wrecked that glass. I mean, I sometimes play in high-class hotels. Can you imagine what would happen if Tony Blair (who comes our way now and then) was having a drink and BOOM!!? |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 28 Dec 04 - 01:18 AM people would say... "Missed him by That Much!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Bev and Jerry Date: 28 Dec 04 - 01:27 AM Sorry, Richard. You not only could have shattered that glass, you probably did. Of course it could have been aliens. Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Dec 04 - 01:44 AM The frequency and delivery efficiency of sax to my resonant curve sure makes a difference to the G spot in this alto, so I assume it works for sopranos also! too bad there isn't an emoticon for a brutally wicked grin! |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: diesel Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:19 AM Richard - the glass wouldn't have shattered unless it wanted to, did it want to ? If so, you couldn't have done it - you were playing at the time and nowhere near it when it happened. Plead innocent ! As shaggy said - it wasn't me ! Diesel (Point taken Bev+Jerry, thanks ;-)) |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:24 AM I waited!! Nobody said it!! Why does it always have to be me?? Richard; that was some blow job!! Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: fat B****rd Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:28 AM What is a soprano sax doing on a Folk/Blues website ???. Then again, what am I doing on a Folk/Blues website. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Mr Red Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:26 AM Q is all about transferrence of energy, at resonant frequencies Q is measured in Electrical terms as the ratio of "current in" (parallel ccts) to circulating current. There is preferrential gain in the frequency domain. Max gain and resonant frquency differ by a factor which also determines the value of Q - the losses in effect. In mechanical terms it is movement, move glass too far and it breaks. Dave Oesterreich in answer to your "likes" - is it because you can get a tune from G and only harmonies from Q's? Barbershop anyone? #8^) |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,Spot Checking Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:58 AM From a 1st graders' New Age sex education/reading Primer. See Jane. See Dick. See Spot. Jane, see Dick? Dick, see Jane's G-Spot? See Spot, come Spot. Big-O! Spot-On! PS. Q-Spot is covered in 2nd Grade, during round-robin PC discussions. School days, school days, dear old "Golden Rule" days |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Dec 04 - 12:11 PM Spot Checking has picked up on the resonance of the thread, which is not remotely subtle, but has started waving flags. He needs to masticate this a while and come up with something good enough to blow his own horn about. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 04 - 01:10 PM Ah the joys of being double jointed! Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Cluin Date: 28 Dec 04 - 04:27 PM Watch out for the "Brown Note". |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,ex-flex Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:08 PM Giok: Being double-jointed has little to do with certain abilities, but being young and thin does. Such memories. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:37 PM "round-robin PC discussions." Look, just leave me out of this, OK? |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: GUEST,Spot Checking Date: 29 Dec 04 - 12:44 AM Stilly River Sage you are one bright, brave lady with a very good sense of humor. Since I am not as bright, and my humor is somewhat "spotty", I will let the rest of you ponder the real meaning of the Q spot, notwithstanding its potential electrical resonance being inductive or capacitive reactance or neither. Darn Spot is out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Dec 04 - 02:40 AM You're not excluded at all, Spot Checking, you got it right, but you are encouraged to be more sly in your humor! :) Perhaps Lady Jane would like to take up the sax, hmmm? (Beyond Dick and Jane, have you read any chatt[erl]y books lately?) |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Dec 04 - 02:54 AM (P.S. Surprise us all and be a glass act, Spot Checking!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Finding the Q spot From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:04 AM As a soprano, I'd be very interested to hear more about this 'finding the G spot on a soprano'.. I'm available next Monday and Wednesday evening...... LTS (who has never made glass shatter but has broken a few eardrums....) |