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Author: gRAHAM gOLDEN
Date: 2000-10-28 04:40
Hi,
I need a musical Halloween costume idea. if anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it.
Graham
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Author: Nate Zeien
Date: 2000-10-28 05:04
Sorry Graham, no costume ideas, but it reminded me of a humorous experience of mine. I played recorders in the high school's madrigal dinner event. For this, we each had period costumes. I happened to have a monk's robe with all of the accessories. About an hour after the event was done, a friend and I got out our recorders. I had an alto, soprano, sopranino, and bass, so there was plenty to choose from. We then proceeded to walk to his house on the other side of town, while playing medieval music on recorders. Since it was about 11 at night, and the path we took was not very well lit, a car circled by for a second look. There was also a police car that drove by about four times. Needless to say, nothing bad came of this, although it certainly must have been a sight! :-) -- Nate Zeien
PS - Graham, you need to think of something evil. Perhaps an augmented fourth would work, but don't ask me how you'd go about making that costume...
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Author: jerry
Date: 2000-10-28 08:48
> ".......a friend and I got out our recorders. I had an alto, soprano, sopranino, and bass, so there was plenty to choose from."
I've seen "recorder" in this context here on the BB in the past. What is "recorder" as it is refered to here, i.e. alto, saprano, etc.?
~ jerry
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-10-28 12:41
jerry wrote:
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> ... I've seen "recorder" in this context here on the BB in the
> past. What is "recorder" as it is refered to here, i.e. alto,
> saprano, etc.?
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> ~ jerry
This is a vertical block flute (i.e. fipple flute). Often taught to young children in schools as a first introduction to instruments. Was a significant instrument in medieval music but in later eras was pushed out of the picture by the much louder transverse flute (the flute you see today in bands and orchestras.)
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2000-10-28 18:13
The human jukebox. Put a slot in for candy by each of 3 memorised tunes. Play them, when the candy is put in. Use the old Vito.
Non musical, one of the kids went as a Kitcenware/spaceman. Popcorn popper as the helmut, muffin tin on the front of a white sweatsuit, thermoses on the back with straws going to the popcorn popper, bright orange kitchen gloves and snow boots.
This year he's going as John the Baptist, his head in the middle of a platter surrounded by plastic fruit.
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Author: Lori
Date: 2000-10-28 18:55
This is a dumb one, but it usually gets a laugh
Put on whatever you would normally wear, then tie a white sheet around you toga style. No need for it to be nice, just draped over you. Then make a sign to hang around your neck that says "Dumb Sheet"
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Author: Jim
Date: 2000-10-29 00:27
Some years ago when my son was about 8 I made him into a "boom Box." No kidding, made from several boxes it went over his head and sat on his shoulders. I used foam padding and black fabric to cover it. the front was the panel of a defunct cassette deck, and I rigged LEDs to light around it. There were old car speakers on the ends connected to a cassette player hung from his belt. It was so long he had to go thru doors sideways. It won a few prizes in parades and got mention on local TV. He loved it! But.. The work was incredible, I was nuts! (The year before he was "Big Foot" the monster truck, the year after, a lighthouse.) The real drawback was he needed alternate costumes for school as these would not go on the bus.
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-10-29 16:45
I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but a group of us are going to wear tank tops and shorts and put red face paint all over our arms from the elbow down and on our faces and backs of our knees. Then we'll carry our drill charts and instruments and go as a very sunburned marching band members.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-10-30 15:10
I wonder if it would be feasible to dress a tall, thin child as a clarinet, made out of black non-clingy fabric, such as felt? The mouthpiece would be made as a hood, with the peak, the tip of the mouthpeice, stuffed a bit, to maintain its sharp shape. The area in between the bands of the ligature (silver lame' fabric, with soft-sculpture stuffed "screws") could be left with an open "window" for the face (for breathing and vision), with the "reed" (perhaps a cut-down wooden shim from the hardware store?) at the back of the head. The clarinet body would go on like a dress, with the kid's legs (in black tights, maybe) sticking out of the bell. The "keys" and "tenon bands" would be silver lame' fabric sewn on. I thinki this costume would be a major amount of work (too late for this year, probably!), but someone who enjoys sewing might have fun with this project.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2000-10-30 17:00
Since Halloween is supposed to be spooky, go as a minor chord - white outfit with staff and appropriate notes drawn/sewn on. Better yet, wrap your self with rope and wear a lighted helmet - when people ask what you are, tell them "a miner cord."
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Paint two large pieces of cardboard yellowish brown, add graining, wear one in front, one in back and go as a reed. Don't forget to include your logo and hardness, 2 1/2 or whatever. Add some grunge or mold if you want to be an old reed. (Stay moist if you want to be playable.)
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Wear a cardboard box that you have painted and go as a box of reeds.
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2000-10-31 02:07
If you're from the D.C. Area or a major city, you could dress as a troll and go as a METRO-GNOME! Har de Har!
Bob Arney
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Author: Jim
Date: 2000-10-31 04:03
Don brings up an intreresting discussion, many feel Halloween costumes MUST be scary, to tradition is to scare away the spirits lurking about on the "eve of all hallowed day" (All saints day, Nov 1st, still a holy day for Roman Catholics and some others.) Others (me included) feel that the tradition of dressing as something you aren't is sufficient to confuse the spirits, and their search for you will be without success. Therefore, dressing as a clarinet or whatever is just as valid as dressing as Freddy Kruger etc!
Have a Happy! (For me, this year, the real fright comes on Novenber 7th!)
Jim
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-10-31 18:07
If you want something really frightening, rent a tux, buy a baton and go as a conductor....
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Author: jim lande
Date: 2000-11-01 02:27
Carry a chair.
Carrier a small poster with the number 12 printed on it 18 times.
Hold poster over chair.
You are preforming the eighteen twelves over chair.
(A friend of my brother came up with this.)
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-11-01 17:39
Jim Lande wrote, "You are performing the eighteen twelves over chair." All together now.... GROAN!
Too late for this Hallowe'en, but maybe for New Year's -- Jim's "over chair" gives me an idea for a very simple costume a group of twelve could do together: Everyone wears all-black or all-white clothing. Each person goes as a note (white costumes are naturals; black costumes are sharps or flats). The note is printed in the contrasting color on a paper pinned to the front of the shirt. You're a twelve-tone composition.
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Author: gRAHAM gOLDEN
Date: 2000-11-01 22:27
Hi,
I didn't have time to get any of these great Ideas together. I am disappointed because they were so cool!!
I just stopped at green party headquarters and picked up several nader signs. I made a costume out of them. Little did I know our local republican state senator was going to be there. I got a ear full. At least I was a conversation piece. She didnt get that it was a joke. Oh well.
Graham
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Author: Jeff G.
Date: 2000-11-02 01:50
Put on an old sheet, tie a long line to it and go as a swab!.
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