Re: Noises through pickups (rather gongs...)

[lindsay@pavestone.com]

>I just dont understand why bowls should not vibrate them?

Yes, the tones are too low for the bowl to physically produce them.  If you
think about it, bass notes are pretty darn large airwaves and therefore
require pretty darn large instruments to produce them.  At 20Hz, the
wavelength is 56 feet long.  There's just no way a bowl 20" wide weighing
eight pounds can move that much air with enough energy to produce the tone.
Imagine how much more difficult it is to move 56 feet of air than, say, a
mere 2.47 feet for a 440Hz A note.