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new horizon wrote:Also, I feel that using a system of instrument classifications such as Hornbostel-Sachs would clear up confusions, there are some instruments that it is debatable if they are either percussive or string, and I feel clearing that up would be great.

There is an official clarification this year that does exactly that: http://soinc.org/official_rules_clarif

Does anyone know what the Bernoulli effect is because I can't find it...

oh and did anyone mention string instrument?
/me knows they did many times and bring the topic up

sweetp wrote:

Flavorflav wrote:I didn't like that the instrument classes were required. I felt it limited innovation - I lost count of how many flutes, xylophones and BMG instruments I saw at NY States.

Gillen wrote:Just the 8 note major scale.

At NY States competitors were not allowed to play the required scale, and were instead required to play a chromatic scale.

Are you sure? Because they asked me to play all of my notes and I don't have a chromatic scale but I still managed third in the event. I'm fairly certain they gave you however many points you deserved out of the 6 possible range points regardless of whether your scale was chromatic or not. Do you know something more than me?

According to my students, they were asked to play a chromatic scale. They asked if they could play the required scale and were told no, just the chromatic scale. Our flautist had not practiced her chromatic scale very much, and they think that was one of the principle reasons they were ranked in the 20's after winning gold at regionals by a wide margin.

Are you saying that your instrument was not capable of playing a chromatic scale?

illusionist wrote:Does anyone know what the Bernoulli effect is because I can't find it...

http://home.earthlink.net/~mmc1919/venturi.html

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classe ... noulli.htm

I actually found those sites just by Googling "Bernoulli effect".

Flavorflav wrote:
Are you saying that your instrument was not capable of playing a chromatic scale?

I played the percussion instrument and my partner played a pan flute and we didn't have the tubes to play a chromatic scale. I had 18 notes (Two octave g scale with f naturals) and I just played all of the notes I had.

Wait does anyone know why this is technically a testing event when its obviously much more of a building event?

twototwenty wrote:Wait does anyone know why this is technically a testing event when its obviously much more of a building event?

What do you mean "testing event"? Sounds is in the same category as Storm the Castle, which is an 'Applied Physics' group. I'd consider that a "building" event, although we don't actually classify things explicitly as "building vs testing" event.

illusionist wrote:Does anyone know what the Bernoulli effect is because I can't find it...

http://www.videojug.com/expertanswer/fu ... -principle
not sure how helpful this is but its the best i found

In the Shenandoah sheet music on the rules page, there is a symbol that I do not understand. It is in the third measure, between two D quarter notes. It looks like a sideways one, but I don't know what that means. I did however notice that there are 3.5 beats in the measure instead of 4. I assume this has something to do with it. Help?