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Is the diameter critical for say 100 feet or 300 feet?
Thanks
Glen
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From: "jason jay stevens" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: Sound and other Shows
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> I have a sculpture in which sound is sent through 100 feet of pool hose,
> named after the "Abyss Zone" of the ocean's depths. Very appropriate!
> The hose can make just about any noise sound eerie and wet. "Dripping
> with reverb" one might say. Especially nice efffects when the hose rubs
> against itself.
>
> William's right, it ain't the cheapest, but it's a standard for which a
> large number of useful fittings are readily available.
>
> Fantasizing 1000 feet of pool hose,
> Jason
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> On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:23 AM, William Katzman wrote:
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>>> I also believe that a number of corrugated pool hoses work for this as
>>> well (not as cheap as the "cheap plastic crap toys") but readily
>>> available. One of the hardware stores used to sell (and may still
>>> sell) a version of cheap pump hose in bulk this way (wouldn't use it
>>> for pumps though - it leaked like crazy, but it was nice for sound).
>>>
>>> -William
>>>
>>> On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:40 AM, David Savory wrote:
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>>>> Corruga tubes are plastic tubes with ridges on them. You hold one end
>>>> and whirl the other. Air rushes over the moving end and develops a low
>>>> pressure zone there. Air moves through the tube from the stationary
>>>> end and vibrates as it hits all the ridges. This creates a strange
>>>> noise that's good for calling aliens.
>>>>
>>>> The tubes are available wherever cheap plastic crap toys may be found.
>>>> Don't go to stevespangler.com
>>>>
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