1.   A small privately-funded microphone installed aboard the Mars Polar Lander will offer Earthlings their first opportunity to sample extraterrestrial sounds.

2.   Disk jockeys have long used turntables because of the ease with which they can manipulate and sample the sound.

3.   No doubt some of the people out to hear Sanborn or Lovano will also sample homegrown sounds on the festival grounds.

4.   They have heard the booming beats and sampled sounds of techno music, but never realized Detroit was where it all began.