Klarinet Archive - Posting 000516.txt from 2002/04

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] What will they think of next???
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:08:24 -0400

True, if you are thinking of the carrot you find at your local grocer.
But, there are varieties of carrots that are not long and conical,
except at the very tip, that grow well in shallow soil. These are more
cylindrical than conical and lend themselves to the alterations
necessary to convert them into an object capable of possessing an
internal bore along with the accompanying tone holes (node controlling
orifices) and required tone generating device at one end that you find
in many modern woodwind musical instruments.

The nearly cylindrical carrot may yet have a future in the PMTRUADTPFOTT
(Professional Musicians That Rely Upon Arundo Donax To Put Food Upon
Their Table) as we could each grow our own instrument(s) and tune them
as necessary.
GaryT

Gary Smith wrote:
>
> >A technical question: does a carved out carrot overblow an octave or a
> >twelfth?
>
> A closed-end, cylindrical carrot would overblow a 12th. Most carrots are
> sorta conical, so I would assume that most would overblow an octave.
>
>

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