Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 2002/11

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Duct Tape clarinet
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:10:01 -0500

Rebecca, I happen to know a chemist who works for 3M and is also a
clarinet player. Would you like me to put you in touch with her?

Christy Erickson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wright [mailto:b5w@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:28 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Duct Tape clarinet
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> <><> Rebecca=A0Brennan) wrote:
> Anyway, Any clarinet collectors out there want to buy it when it is
> finished?
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> Rebecca, just after I graduated from school, one of my friends started
> his own surfboard shop. He announced that he was going to build a
> paper surfboard as a publicity stunt and be filmed surfing in
Australia
> with it.
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> I took his plan to be an idle dream. However....
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> He went straight to International Paper and convinced them to help him
> with the technical details ***AND*** to pay his way to Australia
> ***AND*** to pay him a fee for doing the commercials.
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> I presume someone here on the list would pay you a few dollars for a
> duct tape clarinet just as a novelty. But if you're really going to
do
> this, think about approaching the clarinet companies, or perhaps 3M
who
> is a huge tape manufacture and has very large budgets. Build
something
> simpler first --- such as a six hole unkeyed flute --- so that you can
> show potential sponsors that a duct tape wind instrument can produce a
> musical note and doesn't burst into pieces when you blow into it.
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> ...and of course, since most clarinet manufacturers are based
overseas,
> keep your ears open for a chance to travel under their sponsorship.
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> I'm sure that you would need to invest more time and effort finding
the
> sponsor than building the instrument. So don't sell short the total
> effort required. But the rewards could be significant.
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> Finally, Benade's book titled "Horns, Strings, and Harmony" has a full
> chapter on how to build your own keys and pads for a homemade
clarinet,
> and it has the proper dimensions for a straight cylinder bore and hole
> diameters & where to drill them, and so forth. This book costs only
> $15 or so. Perhaps it would be worth buying just so that you can
> estimate how much effort would be involved.
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> Cheers,
> Bill
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