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Hi Patrick: Maybe you could release a 2x speed version (an octave higher in pitch). Probably still taxing on the woofers, but maybe a better idea of the impact of big guns. Back in my newspaper reporter days, I covered some heavy weapons demonstrations at Fort Drum, NY. Big guns make big noises, to say the least! I was happy to be on the sending end of the business, as opposed to the receiving end. This brings up a question for the house -- what is the loudest naturally occuring sound as far as SPL's -- a massive earthquake, a massive hurricane or tornado, or the thunder after a big nearly lightening-to-ground strike (or perhaps the thunder overhead after a big cloud-to-cloud strike)? As far as human hearing goes, I'd think thunder would sound loudest, but I wonder if earthquake is most SPLs because of the subsonic waves? -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Feaster" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] "Sound" of the end of WWI > The sound of the end of World War One certainly seems worth trying to play > back. I'll give it a try from the published image (originally the > frontispiece of *America's Munitions, 1917-1918, *which we have in the > library here at Indiana University) and report back on the results -- > though I have a feeling that it would take some pretty serious subwoofers > to do the sound-ranging records justice. And no, I had no idea such > equipment existed before it came up on ARSCLIST just now. > > - Patrick > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Maybe Patrick Feaster will be able to scan and "play" that film snippet. >> >> -- Tom Fine >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy A. Riddle" < >> [log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:18 AM >> Subject: [ARSCLIST] "Sound" of the end of WWI >> >> >> >> This graphic has been making the rounds at several websites and forums >>> recently. It's from the book "America's Munitions 1917-18" by Benedict >>> Crowell and apparently shows the sound of the end of WWI: >>> >>> http://life.time.com/history/world-war-i-ceasefire- >>> november-11-1918-graphic/#1 >>> >>> From my limited Googling around, this appears to have been created by a >>> military sound ranging system using low frequency microphones that was in >>> development during the War. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_ranging#World_War_I >>> >>> Are there any more original examples of these recordings that survive in >>> their original form and not as reproductions in books? Patrick Feaster >>> know about this? >>> >>> rand >>> >>> ______________ >>> Randy A. Riddle >>> www.coolcatdaddy.com >>> >>> >>> > >