| No doubt the Shoe is going to give it a run for Ferarri's money. The only question I have is "Why did Villeneuve stick with BAR as long as he did?"
Or... was he either a) laughing all the way to the bank, b) knew he'd never be able to stick with Michael, or c) both?
On the super-heavy horn thing... having never played one, never touched one, never even seen one in real life.... I can't disagree. Must take one wallop of energy to get those things "moving"!
While I'm at it... got a little math thing for you. The musical scale and frequencies are based on a logarithmic progression. Since every doubling of frequency represents an octave, and there are 12 steps in an octave, a simple bit of math allows you to figure out how much the frequency changes.
Let "S" = one step
one octave = 12 steps
We'll let "X" be the multiplier from "step to step" but have to calculate what "X" actually is.
one octave = frequency doubled
Therefore 2 = X^(12)
so X = 2^(1/12) (otherwise known as the twelfth root of 2)
Doing the math, it turns out that X = 1.059463094....
so take A = 440
multiply 440 X 1.059.....
then multiply the result times 1.059......
when you've done this 11 times (the first multiplication gave you the first TWO steps) you'll see that the frequency is now 880... an evenly tempered scale with all the "white keys and black keys" in place.
Of course, our western ears perceive the "correct pitch" as something slightly different, depending upon whether it's the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. "step" in the scale so you can then throw all that math junk out the window and just buy a decent trumpet and learn to play it. |