Bicycle seat clarinet

Professor Squealy Deetbum (aka Linsey Pollak) plays the bicycle seat clarinet in his solo show "CYCOLOGY"

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Music

Tags:

• bicycle
• music
• clarinet
• found
• object
• Linsey
• Pollak

[clarikid]

someone find me a banana flute.

[TenshiNeko46]

I'm confused. These make-shift clarinets sound amazing, but I've never heard a real clarinet actually sound like that. There's something really different about the whole sound...???? It's got a thin, almost oboe-like or sax-like sound, while clarinets are... I dunno, different. Weeeird.

Well, I guess that's what you get for making one out of something weird! lol. (referring to other videos too)

Anyway, awesome, totally talented, and weird!! lol.

[starless46]

@TenshiNeko46 the diffrence is: a clarinet is made out of wood. a saxophone is made out of some kind of metal. so is this bicycle seat.

he sure is talented!!

[g3nby]

I'm most impressed by the accuracy of the tuning, not to mention the A1 musicianmanship of the player/s.

Certainly sounds V. clarinet but with a slightly different timbre. As there are no keys, not even the few keys on Mozartean clarries, I guess they finger like a recorder or Bochflöte?

The three guys on the Tricyclist trio are A1.

Great stuff. Thank you.

[johnmw54]

I WANT TO MAKE ONE!

[HomerSimpson1100]

Can I have mr. Curly?

[sundio54321]

funny

[skiddlecrumms]

@TenshiNeko46 There is a very good chance that it is the material.

[elrondsch]

@thesmnewstead I am a conductor myself) I also dont know whats the fuzz all about))) If an instrument has that kind of ability - it should be used(where needed).

[thesmnewstead]

@elrondsch Hmmm, odd that people would ban such beauty. Also, weird that anyone could mistake a clarinet for a sax. As an orchestra director and composer, I have always found that vibrato on clarinet was permissible. What was always odd to me was how Europe and the US banned F horn vibrato! I think everyone should use vibrato....

[elrondsch]

@thesmnewstead Nope) Classical clarinet playing forbids the use of vibrato(for some reason). I play the sax, clarinet and flute... and all my clarinet friends(and teachers) say that my clarinet sounds like a sax because I use vibrato. So modern stuff and jazz allows it and older classical music forbids it(plus there is a difference in the traditions of music itself). I know its possible)))) Not gonna argue about that)

[thesmnewstead]

@elrondsch Classical clarinet utilises vibrato, just like classical flute and trumpet do, also. In fact, in a standard orchestra, the only instruments that do NOT utilise vibrato are tuba, baritone and sometimes F horn.