Whistle prototype (comments, please) ...

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:13 pm

What comes to mind here, is the possibility of outfitting an entire Irish traditional band for electric power generation.

We've already identified methods for generating power that could be adapted to whistles, flutes and bagpipes. I don't know much about concertinas, but I would have to think there's some way the air that's squeezed out of one of those could be harnessed to a similar personal musical turbine electric power generation apparatus (PMTEPGA).

If you applied the technology to an entire Irish traditional band and coupled it with an electric battery driven bus or van, the band could generate and store enough electricity each night to drive themselves to the next gig.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:17 pm

Hmmm.....how might we extend the concept to, say, fiddles, bodhrans, and spoons?

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:19 pm

I do have one concern, however.

If an entire Irish traditional band were to adopt the technology, along with Slowair's brilliant air pollution control feature, I fear there's a potential for an outbreak of mass violence.

You see, if a large crowd of Irish traditional music enthusiasts were to see soap bubbles rising above the band, they might think they had been misdirected to a Lawrence Welk concert and begin to riot.

It's a sobering thought.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:20 pm

I wish Zubivka were here.

He would know what to do.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:21 pm

Oh, I don't know. I think the bubbles would fetching. Wunnerful, wunnerful, even.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:21 pm

I'm wondering...would the amount of power generated have any relationship to the skill of the musicians?...and would musical genre have any bearing? I can imagine a rip-roaring reel might be mighty energizing, while going heavy on the plaintive ballads might actually sap energy from the system.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:22 pm

Nanohedron wrote:Hmmm.....how might we extend the concept to, say, fiddles, bodhrans, and spoons?

I'm not sure about this. Until the technology can be adapted to those instruments, they may have to walk (or get out and push).

Best wishes,
Jerry

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:24 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:Hmmm.....how might we extend the concept to, say, fiddles, bodhrans, and spoons?
I'm not sure about this. Until the technology can be adapted to those instruments, they may have to walk (or get out and push).

Best wishes,
Jerry

Piezo-electric generators! Vibration and impact would do the trick.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:27 pm

Still ...

Couldn't we think of some reason to make the bodhran player get out and push?

Best wishes,
Jerry

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:28 pm

That would be on general principles.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:35 pm

OK, time for my nap.

I'll be back in a couple of hours. Keep brainstorming!

(Em, I'm thinking you could use some kind of electrical circuitry with diodes, like they have in car alternators, so that regardless of which direction the electric current is flowing, depending on whether it's a slow aire, reel, jig, hornpipe, polka that's playing, the diodes correct the direction so the net output is always the same polarity. If there are any good electronics people on the board, they could develop automatic sensing and switching circuitry that would identify which kind of tune is being played and automatically switch the diodes for the correct polarity.)

Best wishes,
Jerry

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:42 pm

Well, I'm back a little early from my nap, and what do I find?

Everyone's goofing off!

Harumph.

Best wishes,
Jerry

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:20 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:

This is just an early test of concept. I think with some more R&D, I'll be able to get it to generate electricity. My question is, if you generate power using a turbine whistle, does the carbon dioxide you exhale contribute to global warming? (I'm trying to solve a big problem here, and I don't want to overlook any important details.)

Thanks in advance for your assistance with this project.

Best wishes,
Jerry

hmmm... I think you might also incorporate a small solar cell, and then, along with the mini-terrarium, you'd not only take care of the carbon dioxide problem, you might be able to generate enough power, played on a bright day outdoors, to load a small pocket pack battery so you could stress less during a night of carousing and pub sessions... save your wind, so to speak.

I'd like to see it in cherry. Or Guinness, or Dawn...

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:56 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:Well, I'm back a little early from my nap, and what do I find?

Everyone's goofing off!

Harumph.

Best wishes,
Jerry

*

**

Huh? Wha...

Oh, sorry. Just woke up, myself. Hey, I'm just the idea man, here. Now it's for R&D to take the ball and run with it.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:12 pm

Oh sure, but you don't even give us the essential information, Jerry. In what key does it play? Will there be a tunable version? Is it in tune with itself? And of course with you being you, has it been tweaked? Come on, Jerry, inquiring minds want to know!

Chiff and Fipple Forums

Whistle prototype (comments, please) ...

Re: Whistle prototype (comments, please) ...