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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-02-20 15:13
You're going to love this. ( sorry, you will have to copy and paste)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=783_1265207701
ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2010-02-20 15:32
I suppose you could create an interesting clarinet choir from a well-planned vegetable garden! Remarkably good sound, given his working medium. I wonder if undercutting the tone holes would make a difference.
Jeff
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-02-20 15:59
That was pretty good, but if he had only used a Backun bell instead of a funnel.............
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2010-02-20 17:38
-- "I wonder if undercutting the tone holes would make a difference." --
Yeah, but as some would say:
'Best leave this to a qualified greengrocer!'
Steve :-)
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2010-02-22 11:22
I think this sounds more like a saxophone than clarinet and he also uses alto saxophone mouthpiece.
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Author: srattle
Date: 2010-02-22 16:51
He mentions that the bore is cylindrical, which makes it officially a clarinet, although I agree that it does sound more like a Sax. However, he plays it very much like a sax. I would suggest that maybe it's more a a chalameau than a clarinet or sax
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-02-22 22:59
Hey guys, it's good fun, don't get to serious about it. Iceland, loosen up, you sometimes take everything much to serious. ESP
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-02-23 03:26
It definitely sounds like a cylinrical bore instrument and not a conical bore. Someone posted this before and after watching I tried to make one (with just random measurements) to see how it works.
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2010-02-23 12:05
Brilliant!
Is that 'C' as in 'Vitamin C'?
What make is the carrot?
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-02-23 12:38
Love the video! -- and the theatrical flair of the manufacturer. (Check out the associated link to the video clip of "Pookies Digging the Clarinet," too. I think their opinion agrees with Shadow Cat's.)
Just to wax pedantic for a moment (sorry, Ed...), I assume everybody realizes the carrot is not in the audio. That's a real clarinet on the soundtrack. The carrot is way too short for that pitch. Besides, he's playing notes that require keys. Or , on second thought, maybe not: the theatrical gestures and the showmanship suggest that although the carrot is not a genuine clarinet, the manufacturer is a genuine magus, probably a graduate of Hogwart's, who's abracadabra'd the veggie into playing like the real thing.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Phat Cat
Date: 2010-02-24 00:09
If he's not playing that track, then he's far better at synching than the performers at the last presidential inauguration. And I think it sounds more like a clarinet than Acker Bilk. I'll bet it's a live performance and the c(l)arrotnet overblows twelfths.
Would be nice if the instrument maker would join this board and participate in the debates over the effects of instrument material on sound. Did he choose a carrot over a cucumber for brighter tone color? Just don't play it in an ensemble of vegetarians.
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Author: srattle
Date: 2010-02-24 00:38
It's maybe worth checking this guy out on Youtube. He's got a ton of videos of him playing strange instruments made from random things (my favorite is when he plays a lawn chair!)
I think it's definitely him playing, that's the whole point of his show.
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2010-02-24 07:27
Convinced me it was real. But I'd have to check the pitch of just a top joint.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-02-24 13:58
Oh, I agree that he's playing. I just don't think he's playing that carrot. The length of the pipe determines the pitch. The carrot's too short for the low notes. Bet he could get a really cool tone out of one of those extra-long English cucumbers!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2010-02-24 14:19
With 5 minutes, a carrot, the funnel that came with my wife's steam iron and a powerdrill I duplicated this instrument. I used a Vandoren B45 with a softish reed (Rico 11/2) and it plays with fair tone. The whole thing was done by guesstimation and calibrated eyeball and has a range of 1 octave. By using half holes and some rather odd fingering I can get tones and semitones, and was able to improvise a carrot solo at band practise. The lower notes are a bit stuffy, but respond to adjustment of the funnel. Anything softer than a carrot would probably not be rigid enough. I think I might put it into production.
Tony F.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-02-25 06:05
My fear is this guy will convert this instrument to a future carrot cake and serve it to his friends!
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-02-25 12:33
>>My fear is this guy will convert this instrument to a future carrot cake and serve it to his friends!
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Better yet, he could grate it up, put it in the salad and serve it to his friends raw! And if he wants a little extra crunch in that salad, he could shred the reed, too.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2010-02-26 12:48
See my previous post. At the end of practise, one of the guys who came in late asked me what the orange plastic thing was. When I told him it was a carrot he insisted that it must be plastic, so I took it out of the tupperware box in my music case and bit the end off. Now he thinks I'm weird.
Tony F.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-02-26 14:03
>>When I told him it was a carrot he insisted that it must be plastic, so I took it out of the tupperware box in my music case and bit the end off. Now he thinks I'm weird.
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Golly, I can't imagine why! [And I hope the cat I adopted yesterday isn't monitoring this website yet....]
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: MartyMagnini
Date: 2010-02-26 16:43
He's really playing, and he's really playing the carrot. My students have replicated this for fun, and it completely works. I don't know squat about the acoustics involved, but I've seen and heard it live. My students used an alto sax mouthpiece and about the same size funnel he has in the video.
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