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#1 2008-03-04 11:04:27
- SteveCrandall
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- Registered: 2008-03-04
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Florida
Hello to all.
I have been playing shakuhachi since 2002.
On February 24th I took a shakuhachi with me onto G-Force 1
out of Kennedy Space Center with Space Florida and Zero G
Corporation and the Stephen Hawking Microgravity Education
and Research Center. Playing the shakuhachi in Zero G was
a greater challenge than trying to play for the first time.
Has anyone else ever played in microgravity??
Yours,
Steve
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#2 2008-03-04 20:53:54
- Jeff Cairns
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- From: Kumamoto, Japan
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Re: Florida
Perhaps that is what suizen is ultimately all about...without the gadgetry. 
welcome Steve
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#3 2008-03-05 07:22:33
- Yungflutes
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Re: Florida
Hi Steve,
Playing in a cave on the Adriatic sea in Dubrovnik, Croatia was one of my out of this world shakuhachi experiences. Your's top that! Can you get me in!
Just curious, how does sound travel in zero gravity?
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#4 2008-03-05 10:33:44
Re: Florida
Yungflutes wrote:
Just curious, how does sound travel in zero gravity?
Hi,
I guess sound transmission depends on atmospheric pressure(particles vibration, density and all that stuff), so it should be OK in standard atmospheric pressure. Hopefully Steve was not attempting to play in a vacuum - that would be hard 
Cheers,
Marek
In passionate silence, the sound is what I'm after.
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#6 2008-03-05 12:06:32
- SteveCrandall
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Re: Florida
The usual jet noises were there,
but louder because many seats and all storage bins were removed.
There was also a strong AC effect to the air being pulled through the cabin and carrying sounds away.
Add the thrill-filled shrieks from dozens of teacher/educators,
and I couldn't get much auditory feedback to adjust volume or intonation or quality.
I did play at least a few parts of the songs "Fly Me to the Moon", "Moondance", and "Kojo no Tsuki";
and in pictures there are folks close by who seem to be listening and smiling as they float along.
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