Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 2008/11

From: "Gary/Jan Truesdail" <gir@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinet - wood, metal, or carrot?
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:31:31 -0500

When I was in Jamaica I went to a Rhum party organized by the locals where
the main entertainment was an old guy that made his instrument out of:
Mouthpiece, bamboo - cut to the shape of a clarinet mouthpiece, tenon
wrapped with string
Reed, bamboo, made the usual way
Body, about 8 inches of bamboo with finger holes burned through the wall in
the correct locations for the scale
Bell, a cardboard circular/pyramidal insert found inside a large roll of
butchers twine.

He did over an hour's worth of a jazz-reggae music on this thing, with
guitar, keyboard, bass, and drum accompaniment, and the audience roared with
applause at the end - and yes, we were plied with all the rum punch you
could hold. He had everyone mesmerized because no one could believe
something this musically exciting could be produced on such a primitive
hand-made instrument.

Gary Truesdail

On Nov 15, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Dan Leeson wrote:

> So I can make a Chinese radish in B-flat, in A, and in C.
>
So, Dan - will they be **BASSET** Chinese radishes?

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