Both our GE have speakers and are used for teaching and diagnostics. I
would be lost without them. Here is a website I take all of my structure
class students to
http://www.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/oc/research/NMR/music.html. Have some fun
Chuck
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ghirmai H. Meresi [mailto:ghirmai.meresi_at_varianinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:29 AM
To: Neil Jacobsen; ammrl_at_ammrl.org
Subject: Re: AMMRL: Audible NMR on the Radio
I do not know if anyone remembers the old GE instruments those had a set of
speakers on the front panel of the console that were used to tune the probe.
Ghirmai
At 06:40 PM 4/30/2007, Neil Jacobsen wrote:
>Josh,
>
>We've been doing this since 1995 on our Gemini-200 for undergraduate
>demos. There are non-majors Organic Chemistry sections (24 students
>each) who will be submitting samples for autosampler runs. We turn off
>the lights and put an old oscilloscope on top of the console with our
>radio shack speakers on either side turned up loud. It really wakes
>them up! They hear the FID and see it on the oscilloscope. I also run
>the 13C so they can hear "noise".
>
>I also remember the NMR lab at Berkeley in the late 70's where Rudi
>Nunlist had a speaker on every instrument with a little volume control.
>There were many instruments in the lab and it sounded like "Run Silent,
>Run Deep". Apparently it drove the workers in neighboring labs crazy.
>
>Neil
>
>
>
>Neil E. Jacobsen, Ph.D.
>NMR Facility Manager
>Department of Chemistry
>119 Old Chemistry
>1306 E. University
>University of Arizona
>Tucson, AZ 85721
>520-621-8146
>FAX 520-621-8407
Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 10:23:07 MST