Klarinet Archive - Posting 000226.txt from 2004/10

From: "Dee D. Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Flutophones
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:39:39 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Flutophones

> Haschengeliebter@-----.com wrote:
>
> > that sounds like such a fun time...what is the difference between a
> > flutophone and a recorder??? the ones I have bought for my son were only
a dollar (his
> > harmonicas were a lil more but he is better on them and only one 1/2) I
had
> > one my mom bought me but I started on the trumpet and then moved to
> > clarinet...never played either :) unless it was just for fun made up by
me...thank you :)
> >
> > ~Krista~
>
> Whoever raised the flutophone topic left out the Tonette, which was
another of those
> kid-oriented instruments intended to give the player a sense of how and
why the notes
> followed each other, of how to breathe, etc. I don't think Tonettes are
made anymore.

Actually Tonettes were still being made as of 4 or 5 years ago and I would
tend to assume that they are still being made. I bought one just for the
heck of it as our 3rd grade class had tootled around with them when I was a
kid.

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