Re: Ang: Bells horns, etc

RGB! The Slapophone is a NECESSARY component of your Musical trailer! Holy
Cow! you NEED to try it. At the Science Station it is simply a way of
showing people how sound works. The only difference in the tubes is the
length of the tubes themselves. It is a teaching device more than a musical
instrument. I have made simple whistles and flutes with PVC and it works
pretty well.
mark

 On 10/7/05, Mark Rehder <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:46:51AM -0500, Mark Garvey wrote:
> >
> >
> >>OH MY GAWD! someone ELSE who LOVED Bloom County! The strip was started
> by a
> >>guy who lived in Iowa City and Quirky doesn't begin to describe it! By
> >>theway, Look up "Nonsequiter" by wiley, another Iowa city cartoonist,
> which
> >>is really GREAT, and includes such characters ad "OBVIOUSMAN"
> >> ANyhoooo! Back to trikes. I LIKE my air Zound, but two things prevent
> my
> >>using it, the awkwardness of the long tube and no place to mount the
> >>damn....uh....DARN thing on my bars. too little clearance anywhere. HAVE
> to
> >>figure out how to do it again. It is useful! But somehow I think a
> >>.........oh! um......guys.....have you ever thought of mounting the Air
> >>Zound on a longer piece of PVC? say a foot long chunk of 1 1/2 or
> something?
> >>or longer? It would be fairly simple to heat and "bell" if you wanted to
> >>which would change the note (the tuned legnth of the pipe) and maybe
> amplify
> >>it. that puny little bell sort of sucks. I have made simple flutes and
> >>whistles from PVC and it works pretty neat. not at ALL hard to do. Our
> local
> >>Science Museum has an ....well,....sort of a pipe organ that you play by
> >>slapping rubber paddles on the 4 inch tubes that are of different
> lengths.
> >> Just a thought.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >That's a pretty damn cool idea! That should be able to lower the pitch
> >a couple of octaves... but it might also lower the volume...
> >
>
> The rubber paddle instrument is called a "slapophone":
>
> http://www.wrybread.com/gametone/instruments/slapophone.shtml
>
> When miked up through a PA system it has a kind of dry, synthesizer
> sound to it. A friend played in a group that used one, and said the
> hard part was transporting the longest tubes. So they got got creative
> by using equal length short tubes but added length by using some of that
> pleated dryer vent hose! The various lengths coud then just be jumbled
> over one another, and when done just fold them back up against the end
> of each respective tube and they fit in a much smaller case or box.
>
> rgb, perhaps the organ trailer needs a giant slapophone for its next
> outing?
>
> Mark
>
>


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