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Re: OT Children's toy instruments for looping
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
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