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26 Studio Electronics Boomstar Quick Start Manual Ancient Chinese
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THE ANCIENT CHINESE
9.1 “Broom Star” ([email protected])
“Has anybody mentioned how “Boomstar” is a play on “broom star,” the ancient Chinese term for a comet?
vvvvvaThat keeps this synth name in the realm of cosmic/celestial objects, in the grand tradition...”
Thank you, controlvoltage—this is news to us!
Our research shows, in “The Records of the Grand Historian, or Shiji (or Shi Chi),” written more than a century later
‘round about midnight on one fine evening/day in 100 B.C., one can discover how the “broom star” [bristly tail yo], in
240 B.C. was “seen at the north direction and then at the west direction... during the summer the Empress Dowager
died.” Variant readings interpret its appearance in the east and movement north-ish. THE POINT BEING, the broom
star’s albedo, or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo “whiteness” (or reflected sunlight), is the diffuse
reflectivity, or reflecting power, of its surface. Got it? And the STUDIO ELECTRONICS BOOMSTAR is fashionably
galactic, that midnight bit notwithstanding.