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Author: dmfett
Date: 2008-11-12 15:48
Saw the carrot clarinet on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWbj7FYEi3M
What is the distance we show have between each hole...
Love to do a class soon for my 5th grade band kids on this..
Thanks
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2008-11-12 21:43
These chinese imports have gone beyond a joke!
I mean....the mouthpiece looked ridiculous.
Nice clarinet though.
I wonder how often he oils it?
Steve
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2008-11-13 03:08
and it's tuned to......
$5 to the person with the correct guess
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San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-11-13 05:56
hey don't hate. appreciate!
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: dmfett
Date: 2008-11-13 12:52
Did my question get lost...
I was asking about the carrot clarinet as I wanted to teach my students to think outside the box and invent making a clarinet and a make instruments out of something not normal....
How did this get into instruments made in China????
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2008-11-13 12:55
Folks, please be careful here and ONLY use organic carrots to insure that the sound is pure and the after-performance meal is safe.
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Author: Nasubi77
Date: 2008-11-13 14:22
You would have to practice this several times at home to get the hole spacing to where you could play something musical. But for a classroom of non-musicians, I really don't think the hole placement would matter.
And if you don't have a sack of 20+ sax mouthpieces for the kids to play, you could always have them play with a buzz embouchure (like the way you play a trumpet).
Otherwise, it would be a pretty neat and interesting class project.
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Author: Curinfinwe
Date: 2008-11-13 19:45
I've been trying to figure out how to get a hole down the length of a carrot without any fancy tools. Have you figured that out, then?
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-11-14 00:19
"I've been trying to figure out how to get a hole down the length of a carrot without any fancy tools. Have you figured that out, then?"
Many drill bits more than 10mm in diameter are available in that length and longer.
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Author: eac
Date: 2008-11-14 12:24
Just goes to show how much the mouthpiece/embouchure really determine the sound. Make me realize I should work on that combination more.
Liz Leckey
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2010-08-26 13:01
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There was a clarinet event in Tokyo last weekend- the Asian Clarinet Festival with performers and teachers from China, Tiawan, and S.Korea.
On Saturday morning, Professor Togame held a workshop on the "how to" of making a clarinet body from a carrot, radish, zucchini, etc.
Here is mine, made from a radish. After I made the body, I thought it would be fun to make a veggie mouthpiece from a carrot.
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Author: justme
Date: 2010-08-26 15:18
Watering Can Clarinet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZsZMazUP8
![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Justme
"A critic is like a eunuch: he knows exactly how it ought to be done."
CLARINET, n.
An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarinet -- two clarinets
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Author: Eric V
Date: 2010-08-26 17:07
For hole drilling sizes and spacing and pitch details here's his detailed how-to-make-it video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrme04RIsE8&feature=related
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2010-08-27 04:38
I made up a carrotophone when the band I play in did a gig at a school. I used a large straight carrot, a powerdrill, an extra-long 12mm drill bit, a plastic funnel and a clarinet mouthpiece (Vandoren B45, if anyone is interested).
Don't scrape the carrot first, it makes it harder to handle. Top and tail it, then carefully drill the length of the carrot. I did it by hand, but use a drill press if you think you need to. The fingerhole spacing was as shown in the youtube clip,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrme04RIsE8&feature=related
but I used an 8mm drill for the fingerholes, not the 7mm shown. The only reason for this was that I dropped my 7mm bit and it rolled away through a crack in the space-time continuum. I may find it in about 2021.
I counterbored the mouthpiece end with a spade bit to take the mouthpiece, which was a good firm fit, and the small funnel went into the other end after I trimmed the spout a bit. Beware of shavings clogging the holes, pass a piece of rope through it to clean the hole out and check the finger holes. It plays surprisingly well, and mine tuned to the alto sax quite nicely. The whole process took about 10 minutes, it kept OK overnight in the fridge and I finished the show by biting the end off.
Tony F.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2010-08-27 21:43
I made an ocarina out of a sweet potato once.......
Bob Draznik
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2010-08-29 12:17
Carrot in Kinda Bb.
Ryder, please donate the $5 to the next Clarinet BBoard fundraiser.
HRL
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Author: Loliver
Date: 2010-08-30 15:11
LOL- i made one of these like 2 years ago!
What I did was measured the distance between the holes on a recorder, and copied it onto a carrot, and attached a clarinet mouthpiece.
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