[ExI] Musical instruments in space

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 14:18:12 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:01 AM, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com>wrote:

> Of course, you'd better pack enough reeds to last you on one-way trips to
> Mars or Ganymede. At least until you've perfected a variety of Arundo
> donax that will yield decent reeds in the space and growing conditions
> available.
>

Synthetic reeds are already very good (and more durable and consistent than
cane) and only going to get better. Decent ones ought to be printable from
bioplastic before space travel is common.

-Dave
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