Klarinet Archive - Posting 000302.txt from 2002/11

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Duct Tape clarinet
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:54:44 -0500

This is my problem: I'm too scared to call up LeBlanc or the Duck Tape
Company and say "Hey, I want to make a clarinet out of duct tape. Would you
like to support this insane effort?" I wouldn't say that, but that was just
for example. I'm not too scared of the Duck Tape people, but I am scared of
the LeBlanc, Buffet, Selmer or whatever company people. I am still trying to
make the bell a little more attractive, then maybe I will show someone the
bell. It looks really bad!

The duct tape flute is finnished. It took a lot of retaping to get it in
tune, but now it is. WHO WANTS TO BUY IT?? I think I'll start the bidding at
$0.02...

-Rebecca

>From: Nick Simicich <njs@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Duct Tape clarinet
>Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:31:02 -0500
>
>At 07:47 PM 2002-11-05 +0000, Rebecca Brennan wrote:
>
>>Okay, now I am serious. I'm going to make this duct tape clarinet.
>>Unfortunately, I have no idea how I will do so.
>
>There is a company that makes a brand of duct tape called "Duck Tape".
>They have done promotional tours, I still have a quacking device that they
>gave out at Duck Tape day at the local ballpark. Consider contacting them.
>You would have liked it, the person with the best duct tape costume won a
>prize.
>
>>The problem with the flute was that it wasn't thick enough. Then the mouth
>>hole was to big, so i used puddy and now it makes a sound. It sounds like
>>a cheap slide whistle. I didn;t expect it to sound good though. I made a
>>body and I have the places marks where i want the six holes to be, I just
>>don't know how to make the holes yet.
>>
>>Right now I am taking measurements on my good 'ol vito. I have them all
>>now, I just don't know where to go from there.
>>
>>I'm going to go work on it now. If anyone has any ideas, I could really
>>use them
>
>Consider using heat for the holes. A woodburner might be just the thing.
>(Or a laser. :-) Consider also making the holes through a single layer
>with a hole punch as you wrap the body, just before you wrap them.
>Finally, consider making the tone holes from a two part putty epoxy that
>you then drill.
>
>My wife has a theory on duct tape and hurricanes. I live in South Florida,
>where the threat of Hurricanes are annual. You see, you need a lot of duct
>tape as an emergency supply - for taping glass, and for taping on plastic
>to board up stuff.
>
>So when the hurricane comes, you buy up duct tape, and then when you have
>enough, it swerves and hits somewhere else. It is the duct tape critical
>mass theory.
>
>--
>If you doubt that magnet therapy works, I put to you this observation: When
>refrigerators were first invented, in the 1940s, they were rather
>unreliable, but then they became significantly more reliable. The basic
>design of the refrigerator did not change, and we all know that quality was
>important back then, so I doubt that newer refrigerators are made better.
>Refrigerators have become more reliable because of the rise of the
>refrigerator magnet.
>Nick Simicich - njs@-----.com
>
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