Dr. Sandy Napel Plays the Aquaphone on "West Coast Live"

When he bought tickets to be in the audience of the radio variety show "West Coast Live," Dr. Napel didn't expect to become part of the show. Neither did he anticipate being featured in the first sentence of an article from the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "West Coast Live': A Glimpse of Old-Time Radio"! But when the radio show host, Sedge Thomson, asked for audience volunteers to play the Aquaphone onstage, Dr. Napel couldn't resist volunteering to play the instrument, which is a special effect used to open the radio show that sounds similar to the noise of swimming in the bay. After working with state-of-the-art, high tech equipment at Stanford, playing the Aquaphone on live radio was a welcomed change for Dr. Napel, who left the show, according to "West Coast Live': A Glimpse of Old-Time Radio", "with his wife and teenage daughter . . . in the glow of old-time radio." To read the full article, please access http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/DD2H18NMVE.DTL or Download file.

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