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Rick, the link is not working. Very best, and congratulations for a great edition of the festival this year. Ariel. El 25/10/2008, a las 01:00, Rick Walker escribió: > After I took Ryusei and Hideki back to the San Francisco airport > to send them back to Japan <wipes tear away> I decided to treat > myself to a completely and utterly sleep deprived and festival > overwhelmed > day in the city since I was so close. > > I love going to Haight Ashbury to shop so I went there and found a > great instrument > at a toy store there called a Water Trumpet. It's shaped like a > trumpet but it has > five clear plastic water pipes (with side markings for tuning with > the level of water you put into it). > > You blow through it but it won't sound until you open the trumpet > 'valve' to basically > blow the panpipe styled whistle. > > It doesn't sound like a trumpet at all, but , even better, it > sounds like those really > cheap 50's and 60's air portable electric pipe organs. > > I put it under the water and let the pipes fill up at random > intervals which forced a > really cool found scale. I just love found scales and you can > play it polyphonically as well. > > I just recorded a snippet so you can hear the > sounds. > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/283659/TOY%20WATER%20TRUMPET%20demo.WAV > > The wheezing is my reactive airwave disease that I've had all my life > reacting to the over the top amount of pollen in the air we're > having after this ridiculous > heatwave that hit Santa Cruz after the loopers left. It was 90 > degrees yesterday but cooled > off today. The pollen is covering the windshields of our car > after having cleaned them on Wednesday. > > Also, I went to the website of a company that carries this cool > kiddie instrument and found a plethora > of cool toy instruments, including those wonderful tuned bells that > I play a lot in concert. People always ask > me where I got them and here is where you can buy a little set. > They also have a very hip looking toy banjo > for sale that I think I"m going to spring for.........it's really > inexpensive. > > http://www.stewarttoys.com/category/musicalinstruments/ > > enjoy!! > > Rick Walker > > > >