[ExI] Musical instruments in space

[spike]

>. On Behalf Of David Lubkin
Subject: [ExI] Musical instruments in space

 

>.What musical instruments would need to be altered or played differently in
order to sound the same when played on the space station or a lunar colony?
(Because of the lower gravity and the lower air pressure.)

 

>.What changes would be required?

 

>.What new, interesting instruments would be possible?

 

-- David.

 

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Excellent question.  Ron McNair took a saxophone into orbit in 1984:

 

http://btw2worlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ronald-McNair-Sax.png

 

He planned to do some space recording on a subsequent flight, but
unfortunately that recording was never made, as the flight only lasted 73
seconds.

 

Aboard the space station, no modifications would be needed: the ISS uses an
atmosphere very close to the same one we have down here.  I know for a fact
that weightlessness wouldn't effect a reed instrument at all, for I have
played a sax while hanging upside down.  I couldn't tell much difference.
It gave me a headache and stuffy sinuses, but the horn played OK.

 

spike

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