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Re: Tribute to Telinga

Subject: Re: Tribute to Telinga
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:10 am (PST)
Happy for you, Syd, keep going!

Klas.

  At 09:14 2006-10-28, you wrote:

>It was excellent recording weather: no wind at all.  (And of course no rai=
n:
>this is drought stricken Australia.)  I'd been out in a national Park sinc=
e
>the first glimmer of daylight.  Almost back to the entrance when an Easter=
n
>Whipbird called.  Psophodes olivaceus has an antiphonal duet.  I'd been to=
ld
>that sometimes the bird initiating the duet does the full song itself.  Th=
at
>appeared to be happening, so I recorded.
>
>Telinga mic in a Telinga parabola and mounted on a tripod.  Centre of trip=
od
>five feet above ground.  About 50 yards from my car.
>
>Thus it was that a few minutes later, I've just disconnected mic from
>recorder and I'm placing the recorder in my car, when the only gust of win=
d
>of the morning arrived from nowhere and blew the tripod over.  Crash!
>Reflector and mic directly face down onto the sealed car-park.
>
>And as far as I can tell the mic is quite uninjured.  Take a bow, Klas!
>
>
>Syd Curtis in Australia
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
email: 
website: www.telinga.com







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