00:07:33 -!- Verbed has joined. 00:14:26 -!- asdsa_ has quit (niven.freenode.net irc.freenode.net). 00:14:39 -!- asdsa_ has joined. 00:40:40 Hi, Verbed. 00:41:46 Hello. 01:02:33 Verbed: you're in many channels. 01:06:25 I suspect I would miss many interesting conversations if I weren't. 02:42:25 -!- Verbed has quit ("Client exiting"). 06:02:09 -!- lament has quit ("leaving"). 07:01:40 -!- Verbed has joined. 07:59:59 -!- clog has quit (ended). 08:00:00 -!- clog has joined. 20:21:01 -!- lament has joined. 21:24:35 ha 21:24:38 http://www.jsbach.net/images/warp.html 21:27:25 Great... I made Bach look like Walter Matthau. 21:28:00 I've seen an applet that did that to Bill Gates 21:28:19 but that was on an anti-microsoft site, not a gates fansite 21:29:02 Maybe this just goes to show that jsbach.org is anti-bach! 21:29:57 wow: http://www.jsbach.net/images/Jordan6StringViolin.html 21:30:01 _that's_ esoteric. 21:33:27 Oooh. Electric violins. 21:33:38 Six stringed electric violins. 21:33:52 Indeed. 21:34:22 I wonder how is it played. 21:34:32 Like a regular violin. 21:34:40 No. 21:34:45 Why not? 21:34:50 It doesn't have a bow. 21:35:04 Duuuh, then you provide the bow yourself. 21:35:07 You can't play with a bow on six strings. 21:35:13 Sure you can. 21:35:15 The board is flat anyway. 21:35:34 It isn't. It curves slightly. 21:35:43 That's not enough. 21:35:50 It was enough when Bach lived. 21:35:56 No it wasn't. 21:36:03 Yes, it was. 21:36:13 No, it wasn't. 21:36:20 ... 21:36:32 Elaborate. 21:36:56 Maybe it was enough when Bach lived. 21:37:03 But certainly not for _six_ strings. 21:37:36 And you base this on... What? 21:37:52 My experience. 21:38:13 That's interesting... Because my experience tells me it would be enough. 21:39:24 How come all (that I know of) bowed instruments have four, or less than four, strings? 21:40:01 Dunno... Possibly you don't know a lot of bowed string instruments? 21:41:11 Likely. 21:41:23 Here's a hint. Go look up information on an instrument called 'viola da gamba' 21:42:04 Oh, look... First link on google shows a six-string viola da gamba... 21:42:08 Fancy that. 21:42:39 http://www.violadagamba.nl/pix/kampic.gif 21:42:47 See that curve? 21:43:10 Nothing like that curve on the electric violin. 21:43:21 Irrelevant... You claimed there were very few string instruments with more than four strings. 21:43:33 Well, it is true :) 21:43:36 No. 21:44:10 I'm not even going to inquire why the da gamba effectively died out 21:44:20 but anyway! 21:44:37 But anyway you don't have an argument, so you'll try your best to move the conversation elsewhere. 21:44:44 No. 21:44:51 Doesn't it depress you to be wrong all the time? 21:44:56 We weren't talking about da gambas. 21:45:06 We were talking about that six-stringed violin. 21:45:44 Ah, so your 'nonexistance of >4-stringed instruments' argument was a straw man. 21:46:07 Yep! 21:46:16 and i didn't agrue nonexistance. Just ignorance. 21:46:25 ouch. "agrue". 21:46:28 Well, in that case, I won't bother talking with you... 21:46:34 "It's pitch black, you're likely to be eaten by agrue." 21:46:58 Oh well. 21:47:19 In fact 21:48:32 In fact we were both quite wrong. 21:48:59 The violin is played with a bow, and the bridge is very curved. 21:54:10 http://www.barberatransducers.com/hybrid_violin.jpg 21:54:44 (5 strings) 21:55:08 ah, here's 6. http://www.barberatransducers.com/standard_violin.jpg