any experiences with one of these contraptions???

[Karl H.]

...anything that fits in your pocket could not have a resonating chamber big enough...

...the thing in your pocket is being held tightly up against your leg...

...something bulky in your pocket might take your mind off the mechanics of playing…


1. This sort of gratuitous filth has no place on a public bulletin board.

2. What's in someone's pocket doesn't matter: it's what's in their wallet that counts!

3. Send me the cost of a Pocket Rocket, and I’ll buy every Marine sousaphonist a quantity of malted beverage that I guarantee will make you all sound better (to yourselves).


Karl "who has numerous challenges and shortcomings, but enjoys a good laugh with the best of them" Hovey

[Chuck(G)]

Darned amazing what can be done with a bit of copper tubing and some scrap wood--turning it into bucks. But honestly, wouldn't it make the perfect accessory for one of these:



http://www.qray.com/



http://www.braintuner.com/biomirro.htm

Chuck "New heights of gullibility"(G)

[Chuck(G)]

3. Send me the cost of a Pocket Rocket, and I’ll buy every Marine sousaphonist a quantity of malted beverage that I guarantee will make you all sound better (to yourselves).

Karl, why not pass it over a magnet and advertise its healing capabilities? AFAIK, no one's offering magnetized beer yet...

http://www.drlam.com/opinion/magnetized_water.cfm

[MaryAnn]

I should not admit this, but I bit on the Acousticoil, based on the premise that it would be possible to somehow put a dent or bump in the piping somewhere in my F tuba and make the damn low C work better. (reference Lawson leadpipes, which are NOT bogus.)

When I sent it back they told me (sniff) that I was one of the extreme few who did. (The few who bothered to, in my opinion, put it back in the box and pay postage instead of just burning the thing or keeping it to show other hapless fools what not to buy.)

MA

[tubeast]

THANK YOU Chuck for sharing this valuable source of information with us. AT LAST I´ve come across THE answer to my questions concerning the recycling process of scrap brass instruments to the true benefit of ALL MANKIND. Serious, people, just check out the links at the end of that website and you´ll find out how to fix those problems you don´t have. ALL OF THEM. Reminds me of the ORGON ACCUMULATOR designed to focus orgon energy (you know, this chemical element ORGON has a negative enthropy, which is real neat ´cause you can charge water with that energy and sell it to people willing to pay 40$ a gallon, and MAAN, do I feel good with THAT stuff inside.
Geez, it´s crazy, in my home town, there´s a shop for this kind of stuff right by the expensive furniture and haute couture shops, and it has been surviving for SEVERAL years. I definitely have studied the wrong profession. Do something where the money´s at, not what you can be proud of.
Hans

[Chuck(G)]

The funny thing is that "education" is no guarantee that folks won't be fooled into this kind of stuff. I know a fellow who made a pretty decent extra paycheck by selling magnetic pads to university students and faculty.

And the neighborhood full of "well educated" professionals (well, okay, medical professionals) went nuts and were raising money to halt construction of an electical transmission line three miles east of here. Their logic was that the low-frequency magnetic field was going to harm them. I made some enemies when I opined that this was just plain stupid--electric field strength obeys an inverse-square relationship to distance. Iif they were worried, they might want pull all of the wiring out of their homes.. I really made some people sore when I asked if the lawyer they'd hired had ever pointed out this bit of freshman physics...

Several of these same folks fell for the plastic "laundry ball" that purported to clean clothes without detergent.

Now, if you'll pardon me, the "Add Water" indicator on my home cold fusion generator is blinking and needs attention...




Chuck "skepticism is very healthy"(G)

[Alex C]

I don't know about the Pocket Rocket but...

the octave key I had a local repairman install works great.