Isn’t a loudspeaker just a bell, that happens to to be made of a very particular material and vibrated by a very particular clapper?
There was an old thread discussing change ringing, though it didn’t get into that much detail. It’s much more common in the UK, but I was an American change ringer years ago, and briefly tower captain at the Old North Church in Boston. If anyone’s interested in more in-depth discussion of change ringing, I suggest a new thread. I mostly lurk because my day job and my math keep me busy, but I’d try to actively participate in such a thread.
I doubt if there’s much call for a new thread …
Here is a video about bellringing which states (@ 7:05) that the way bells
are hung in the UK (on a wheel) is fairly unique to English speaking countries.
That is why the bells are more controllable allowing for change and method
ringing, whereas the bells in Europe are more of a random clang-fest !
In 1974, singer Al Green was seriously injured when his *girlfriend assaulted him. . . with a pot of grits. He had second-degree burns that required skin grafts. Shortly after the assault, she committed suicide.
*Girlfriend was not aware that Green was married with three children, and she was just a side chick.
Couldn’t happen anymore, one Google search would tell you within seconds.
Back in the 80s a friend of a friend was banging a San Francisco Giant who she’d see whenever the team was in San Diego. She found out he was married when she was watching one of his home games on tv and they showed his wife and kids in the crowd.
If you’d regularly read advice columns, you’d change your mind.
No, ideally not. A bell functions basically due to resonance. A loudspeaker should not be resonant. The ideal speaker/transducer cone or element would be zero mass and zero resonance. In fact, speaker designers find it important to know the natural resonance of a speaker so they can design around it.
The World T-20 Championships (limited overs cricket) are ongoing at the moment - news to most on these boards, I imagine, though no doubt our Antipodeans and South Africans are still sniggering over how England almost managed to get themselves beaten by (wait for it) Nepal. This led me to wonder just how bad (or good) are Nepal, actually? And the answer is: certainly not awful - #16 in the world. (For context, the Major Nations run out at 10 through 13 - Afghanistan, Ireland, Zimbabwe and The Netherlands (no, really).)
So. It occurs to me that, as a public service, I should advise members of these boards of their home nations’ cricketing proficiency. Major Nations omitted - you probably know already - and link to the listings at the bottom, as I will surely miss someone.
18 - USA
19 - Canada
30 - Spain
35 - Germany
44 - Japan
46 - Argentina
53 - France
79 - Luxembourg
(If anyone is interested, of the above only USA and Canada made it to the finals. USA are currently bottom of Group A and Canada are bottom of Group D).
j
I’m surprised Germany is as high as #35, because it’s an almost unknown sport here. And the ones who know the game still don’t understand the rules, including me, which made the last book in the "Hitchhiker’s Guide” series a hard read for me. Most Germans would rather know croquet (which is spelled “Crocket” in German) than cricket.
Random Googling suggests that Berlin (for example) has at least 50,000 residents hailing from South Asia, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were at least one recreational league set up.
And I’m not surprised Luxembourg is down in the bottom third. It’s not on the radar here. We’re all about football (of course) and cycling.
Yeah, I didn’t think of immigrants playing the game here, and now that you mentioned it I remember a newspaper story about a cricket team founded by (I think) Pakistani immigrants in the town of Arnsberg which is close to me, struggling to find a playing ground. In the end, a football (soccer) club shared their facilities with them.
US here, small city in NY State. We have a significant Jamaican population, and for some years there was a cricket field a couple miles outside town. I’d ride my bike along the road and stop once in a while to see a few minutes of a game. Had no idea what was going on, of course.
The Jamaican influence continues here, but the field is now a vacant lot. (I don’t think it’s moved; could be wrong though.)
For the record, here’s the current German squad _ don’t think any of the names are going to surprise you.
j
Well, maybe Kyle Klasse.
Oh yeah, I missed that one. Wicket Keeper, though. Doesn’t bowl and might not bat much. Still, impressive.
j
Originally from South Africa, it seems.
Ah. Makes sense now.
j
And he has a great name for a German cricket player, “Klasse” means class or as an adjective, great or top notch.
ETA: don’t know how it happened that I quoted myself, I wanted to quote the name of Kyle Klasse.