Ed,
Well, I managed to make the sound experiment project happen this weekend. I’ll have to say, this is one of the biggest projects that I have undertaken in quite a while! It’s been really nice to have the Olympics on while I’ve been doing this “analysis” work. I would have been watching them anyway, and instead of sitting on the couch, I’m tapping away on the computer with the TV on. Not too bad!
Friday I ended up taking a vacation day because my Wife’s Parents were able to come up from Tucson and they had volunteered to help us with our citrus trees. This is the time of year that we have to get all of the fruit off them and do our big pruning project (before they bloom). We have 8 trees (2 grapefruit, 2, lemon, and 4 orange). We ended up getting about 40 bags of fruit, and lined the street with citrus branches! Whew, what a way to spend my vacation.
It took us about 5 and a half-hours to finish and we were done by about 3 PM. I had plenty of time to get cleaned up, gather everything that I needed for the project, and get a short warmup before I drove to Benny’s house for my 4:30 PM lesson.
After arriving at Benny’s house, he had to find his microphone and charger cord for his mini disc player. While he did this, I played a few notes and then got my pencil and tape measure out to make some measurements of the room:
Here’s a picture of the room set up:
