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Author: davetrow
Date: 2010-07-29 20:14
I prefer the lamps. To me, these look too much like roadkill, or the result of "enhanced interrogation."
Dave Trowbridge
Boulder Creek, CA
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2010-07-29 20:18
....maybe if you put a light bulb at the end of it?
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-07-29 20:27
It may be modern art come to clarinets but I say, YUK. Give me a nice respectable lamp anytime. That shows more respect for our beautiful instrument because at least then it "lights up your life". ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2010-07-29 21:38
Has this metal clarinet had a close encounter with Toon World ? I kinda like it, it gives the impression that it's got a life of it's own.
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Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2010-07-29 23:51
Actually, its title is "Clown Clarinettistry," So yeah, it's "toonish."
B.
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Author: jbutler ★2017
Date: 2010-07-30 13:23
I've often wondered what a metal clarinet would look like powder coated. They have so many different colors these days. The keys could be a different color than the body. Maybe I'll have to try it one of these days.
John B
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-07-30 21:13
I had a similar gut reaction to Dave. I was eating when I opened the image and I nearly hurled !!!!
The lamp is not irrevocable. This is...... is......... ugh
...................Paul Aviles
PS I just remembered where I had the same feeling "The Bodies Exhibit."
Post Edited (2010-07-31 13:00)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-07-31 15:33
Ed Palanker wrote,
>>It may be modern art come to clarinets but I say, YUK.>>
I second your YUK with a BARF. As a retired stained glass designer-builder, I try to appreciate artists' work, but that ... thing is not to my taste. I might've put the BARF in lower-case letters if I knew for sure the poor clarinet had met with some accident that had damaged it beyond repair before the artist mutilated it.
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: skygardener
Date: 2010-08-01 14:30
I just saw this thread now and just clicked on the link- as soon as I saw the picture I said something.
However, I am sad to say that Mark and Glen would probably be upset if I wrote it here.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2010-08-01 14:59
It appears, bmgcar, that you are officially an unappreciated artist. Is it time now for the inevitable steps of depression, resolve, and accomplishment?
Just try to imagine how Rachmaninoff felt!
(in good fun!)
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Ian White
Date: 2010-08-01 15:58
A great, fun use for a time expired clarinet. Now if you'd only put a light fitting on the top.......
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Author: Gandalfe
Date: 2010-08-01 16:17
Very cool Bruce. I have a weathered sax (was a parts horn) outside the entrance to my music studio. I love the patina of an aged horn and hope this Buescher sax will age in an artistic manner. My next acquisition might be a smashed trumpet, that'd be interesting too. :O)
Jim and Suzy
Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington
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Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2010-08-01 17:08
James, yes, unappreciated. But I'd be depressed if most people liked it!
Ian, my next one will have a light strip inside.
Jim, a smashed trumpet is the kind of thing that clarinetists dream of. Go for it.
B.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2010-08-01 19:54
I think the interior light strip is a great idea!
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Fishamble
Date: 2010-08-01 21:09
My first thought was that it looked like a clarinet that had been scared out if its wits! Doesn't really jive with the "Humane treatment..." line!
But very clever. Thanks for the pictures.
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Author: LonDear
Date: 2010-08-02 02:05
I am guilty of trying to restore old metal clarinets and not being able to keep all of the parts together long enough to make a lamp, except one that just looks and lights great.
I'm casting my vote for the "art" look. There are far worse fates for an unwanted clarinet.
Does anyone object to my turning my unused Bundy alto into a lamp?
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-08-02 04:06
Anyone care to try repadding this?
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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Author: ned
Date: 2010-08-02 05:25
''Anyone care to try repadding this?''
Why yes, of course, and it would be a fairly simple job I suspect, given the position of the keys.
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