Published on June 15, 2010 at 11:15 pm
The one thing everyone will agree about this the 2010 World Cup are that vuuzelas are damn annoying! It’s true that the idea might have been appealing to people attending the game, but when you have thousands of people blowing into the vuvuzela at the same time its pretty noisy and extremely irritating. It has gotten to the point that some teams have even requested to have them banned during games!
So, why is the vuvuzela annoying? According to Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics, “The vuvuzela is like a straightened trumpet and is played by blowing a raspberry into the mouthpiece. The player’s lips open and close about 235 times a second, sending puffs of air down the tube, which excite resonance of the air in the conical bore. A single vuvuzela played by a decent trumpeter is reminiscent of a hunting horn – but the sound is less pleasing when played by the average football fan, as the note is imperfect and fluctuates in frequency. It sounds more like an elephant trumpeting. This happens because the player does not keep the airflow and motion of the lips consistent.”
So please, for the sake of my ears and a better World Cup experience, can all the terrible vuvuzela playing stop? Let’s watch a game in peace!
via Boing Boing.
Posted in: Football by eleventhst
