Talk:Laser harp

message: Lasers so powerful you have to wear gloves? I don't believe that. --Abdull 10:43, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Direct exposure to a class IV laser may lead to skin damage; see laser safety and . –Mysid (talk) 08:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  He had to wear gloves when using his early outdoor setups, as they were powered through an Argon gas laser of several Watts. His recent setups are less powerful, but he still wears white gloves because they make detection easier, as more light bounces off and hits the sensors underneath. Playing with his bare hands is possible, and he did so during the Live In Beijing and World Arena Tour concerts. Stoney3K (talk) 00:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  The power of the laser in our harp is quite a lot lower than that used in Jarre's early harps and whilst it is possible to play ours without wearing gloves after it has been fanned out to 8 beams it is NOT possible to keep your hand in the beam for any length of time without gloves when it is still a single beam. It will readily burn through a piece of paper in a measured 2.2 seconds. The rating of our laser is >600mWatts and has actually been measured at 720 mWatts. Jarre's early harps reportedly used lasers of at least 1 watt + magnitude. It is therefore perfectly reasonable to expect it to be somewhat painful on un-protected skin if not actually injurious. A photograph on the following page shows clearly the effect that our lower powered laser had on my hand during the development stage! http://www.jarrelook.co.uk/KitLaserHarp/LaserHarp.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.255.1 (talk) 11:03, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Gloves

message: I doubt this is of any added value here, because it is not specific to laser harps and can be said for any MIDI controller. Stoney3K (talk) 14:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree with Stoney3K. This chapter is not encyclopedic over Laser Harp. It is a general MIDI features.Iw2mln (talk) 14:05, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typical framed style laser harp software functions 

message: The "article" currently reads as a blog - interesting -, but not enciclopedia. --Technopat (talk) 10:49, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Ten years later, same problem. I tagged the article . We need more newspaper-of-record type references, and fewer YouTube-based original research. – voidxor 23:19, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blogs & YouTube used as references 

message: This was in the sims 3 future expansion. Has it been seen anywhere else? --Tristyn⌘ 07:37, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In modern Culture 

message: Hi all. This has been a bone of contention for some time, with the inventor of the laser harp oscillating between the two people above. At one point, the article had both names in it, and the background re. patents, but that was removed some time back.
Over the past few days, an anon editor, who may or may not be Geoffrey Rose, made these edits, which now have been reverted twice.
So - let's discuss. How do we handle this? - Alison ❤ 16:14, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I too removed some uncited claims as to another inventor not too long ago. Feel free to add back or rephrase completely using your references. The Invention section is a little short as is. – voidxor 22:52, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ok. Let me have a go at this and see if I can try to encompass the above to everyone's satisfaction - Alison ❤ 19:01, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   Looks good to me but I tweaked it a little. I like how you removed the mention of invention from the lead section, as it's disputed and not needed to introduce the reader to the subject. On the issue of linking French patents, the  template automatically generates links, as you know. I fail to see the issue with this, as its link is working for me. I can see basic metadata on the Bibliographic Data tab, and the patent itself on the Original Document tab. I just reverted you on the Bernard Szajner article before seeing that you did the same again here with an explanation of the link not working. Can you further explain what the issue is? Thanks! – voidxor 16:41, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  The problem is that the  template wasn't generating the right metadata in the GET header for it to be successful. It was missing &FT=D and the search was failing. Oddly enough, it is generating that today, so I can only assume someone fixed it! - Alison ❤ 17:51, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

text:  Tweaks look good, too. I'd like some stronger refs for the Rose stuff, but we have what we have. I'll keep digging here - Alison ❤ 17:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

text: * "Space Light: Holography and Laser Spectacular"  - published on June 1, 1982, specifically mentioned Bernard Rose and his Laser Harp. This is about the same time as Szajner's patent was granted - Alison ❤ 18:02, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm glad you have book sources, so I penciled that one into the article. Thanks for researching Geoffrey Rose. He's supposedly Australian, so do we know for sure that he filed with the British patent office, and not the Australian one? – voidxor 23:56, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bernard Szajner]] / Geoffrey Rose