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JV Breaks a Metphor? Need Help From the Left Coast (and Zither Players)

I was browsing through the recent TAS with the Pass Labs gear on the cover. On page 96 Jonathan Valin (writing about the acoustics of a zither) declares that the sounds "swirl through the large wooden body of the zither like the powerful cross currents in a tide pool".

I haven't been to the beach for many years, but I always thought that a tide pool was a relatively small pool of water (hopefully with some interesting sea creatures) left behind on the rocks as the tide receded. As a closed pool (with no pumps), I was pretty sure that there weren't any currents, let alone "powerful cross currents". Please take a look at the picture of a tide pool from Wikipedia and let me know if you see any "powerful cross currents".





Having never actually played a zither (or even seen one in person), I figured I would take advantage of my time on Wikipedia to see just how large the wooden body of zither is. Take a look at the photo (again from Wikipedia to be illustrative of zithers in general). When I think of a "large wooden body" I tend to think of, oh say, a piano or maybe a double-bass. What about you? Do you see a "large wooden body" in the photo?





Is JV as good as this with metaphors in the books he writes?

By the way, this was a landmark issue for another reason. They broke their self-imposed rule and printed the four letter word that begins with "A". Check out the first letter to the editor.


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Topic - JV Breaks a Metphor? Need Help From the Left Coast (and Zither Players) - Charles Hansen 00:12:44 04/25/12 (116)

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