Reasonably peaceful day, just trying to get into vacation mode and struggling a bit to put work out of my mind.. which I really need to do.

I did have some good play time today dialing in the design and settings for the Reubens tube I finished yesterday. The rubens tube was invented in 1905 by German physicist Heinrich Rubens . I made mine with a 5 foot steel stove pipe, stuck a gas line on one end and a compression tweeter on the other. drilled 114 holes int he top .. lit it and played music into the speaker.. Sort of like this illustration.. but I didn't use a rubber diaphragm.. I sealed a speaker airtight to the tube… and I used an iphone as both a signal generator and music source.

Pretty cool !

Here's my fiery rendering of Thomas Dolby;s 'She blinded me with Science' .. (note this is still uploading at 10:48 PM)

And Here's what happens with Big gigantics 'sky high' ( I managed to blow out the speaker right after this one. Luckily, i had a spare replacement vice coil for it.. don't ask me why.. )

Nice little demo.. .. no ?

nite all, nite sam !

-me

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