Klarinet Archive - Posting 000275.txt from 2002/11

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Duct Tape clarinet
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:19:17 -0500

If she could help, then yes! Thanks!

>From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: RE: [kl] Duct Tape clarinet
>Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:10:01 -0600
>
>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
> >
> > <><> Rebecca Brennan) wrote:
> > Anyway, Any clarinet collectors out there want to buy it when it is
> > finished?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I took his plan to be an idle dream. However....
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ...and of course, since most clarinet manufacturers are based
>overseas,
> > keep your ears open for a chance to travel under their sponsorship.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
> >
> >
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