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.
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.
Still …
Couldn’t we think of some reason to make the bodhran player get out and push?
Best wishes,
Jerry
That would be on general principles.
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
Well, I’m back a little early from my nap, and what do I find?
Everyone’s goofing off!
Harumph.
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…
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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.
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! 
It plays a G, an octave above the upper register G on a D whistle, although there is considerable leeway for an accomplished player to blow the note higher or lower using breath modulation. It is my understanding that the note G is used in many Irish traditional tunes.
Best wishes,
Jerry
You might call it the “G Whiz”!
Should we hold our breath?
BTW - Where is Zubvika?
Not scientifically trained, but more in the Bardic tradition of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the like, do you think we ought to have a repertoire - maybe some stuff by Electric Light Orchestra, and perhaps the Who, (“My Generation”) - oh yes, and Ampy Birthday.
Just for starters, that is.
Keep it up, you crazy people.
Patrick P
Jerry
I know I’m coming in late, but an honest exposition of a prototype whistle is a momentous occasion and I don’t think I should miss my chance to contribute to the development of new technology.
Unfortunately, I think the scale of the demonstration model makes technical comment difficult since both the current and CO2 generated by the test are too insignificant for accurate measurements to be made. Once you do succeed in working up an actual working scale model, however, I will be more than willing to evaluate the concept more thoroughly.
I estimate that a tube approcimately 87 feet long and 3 feet in diameter with a two bladed prop spinning at no more than 250 RPM should be sufficient to both demonstrate the concept and actually test both efficiency and CO2 pollution coefficient.
Be sure to let me know when it’s available.
I’ll put my best people on it.
Would you like it delivered, or will you be coming to pick it up?
Best wishes,
Jerry
Jerry, what kind of logo will be on it?
Bob
I don’t know.
Maybe a mouse playing an electric guitar? I’m open to suggestions.
Best wishes,
Jerry