Man carves carrot and plays it as a clarinet

I think I wasted money buying a clarinet for my daughter's music lessons. (Thanks, Dave!)

[#1 posted by mlw99 , November 17, 2008 5:29 PM]

Jean-Luc, you continue to go where few have gone.

[#2 posted by unsafe at any speed , November 17, 2008 5:36 PM]

Stop playing with your food!

[#3 posted by seanohagan , November 17, 2008 5:38 PM]

Brng!

Check out this Japanese guy who has made instruments using every vegetable known to man.

http://jp.youtube.com/user/heita3

He doesn't use any extras, and doesn't look as pompous either.

[#4 posted by rAMPANTiDIOCY , November 17, 2008 5:50 PM]

the clarinet wasn't a waste. she can use the mouthpiece to play a carrot.

[#5 posted by noen , November 17, 2008 5:58 PM]

This isn't that new. They've been around quite a while.

Vegetable Orchestra

[#6 posted by Ceronomus , November 17, 2008 6:05 PM]

Check out the Wyldmen...they've been doing this sort of thing for a while

http://cdbaby.com/cd/wyldmen

[#7 posted by controlbroke , November 17, 2008 6:17 PM]

every once in a while something is posted which i can't comment on in a constructive manner.
yet i am still compelled to make noises simply to express my delight.
that said ,
SQEEEEEEEEEEEEE :-) :-) :-) :-) EEEP WOOOO

thankyou

[#8 posted by Keir , November 17, 2008 6:51 PM]

#3 Sean O'Hagan (THE Sean O'Hagan?) I thought of Heita too. He seems like a really sweet guy on his vids.

[#9 posted by mdh , November 17, 2008 6:51 PM]

Rhapsody in tuber?

[#10 posted by HPHovercraft , November 17, 2008 6:53 PM]

Funny you should post this - I was walking through the produce aisle this very evening, wondering what would happen if Pete Postlethwaite were genetically spliced with Patrick Stewart.

Talk about serendipity. Freeow!

[#11 posted by Antinous , November 17, 2008 6:56 PM]

if Pete Postlethwaite were genetically spliced with Patrick Stewart.

Make it so, Number 85.

[#12 posted by Sparky005 , November 17, 2008 6:59 PM]

I don't care if it's been done before, it's still COOL!

[#13 posted by Anonymous , November 17, 2008 7:05 PM]

It looks like an alto sax mouthpiece and sounds like one too, it would be hard to use a clarinet mouthpiece on a carrot because the opening is much larger since it fits inside the clarinet body where the alto mouthpiece tapers down.

[#14 posted by Antinous , November 17, 2008 7:13 PM]

It would have been better if he juiced it at the end.

[#15 posted by Jardine , November 17, 2008 7:13 PM]

Using the clarinet mouthpiece and a reed does seem like cheating a bit. It still sounds much better than I expected though.

[#16 posted by Coal , November 17, 2008 7:20 PM]

Saw this guy (I'm 99.998% sure) performing in Shizuoka some years back. Spoke to him afterwards, and apparently he makes wind instruments for a living, so you end up with a natural sense for where the holes need to go.

[#17 posted by ion_stasi , November 17, 2008 7:33 PM]

nice carronet! :)

[#18 posted by scionofgrace , November 17, 2008 7:34 PM]

SOOOOOOOOO COOL!

::melts into a puddle of music-geek squee::

[#19 posted by Anonymous , November 17, 2008 8:09 PM]

But will it blend?

[#20 posted by travispulley , November 17, 2008 8:17 PM]

One would think that such a crafty fellow would be able to deinterlace his video.

And peep the middle finger action at 3:05

I like his song!

[#21 posted by dougp , November 17, 2008 8:42 PM]

this made my dog do the RCA dog tilted head thing.

[#22 posted by bosley , November 17, 2008 9:38 PM]

hey its Lindsay Pollack - an Aussie guy who plays musical inventions at heaps of festivals.

[#23 posted by dr80085 , November 17, 2008 10:18 PM]

It's amazing that it's so in tune.

A friend of mine made a bunch of wind instruments (with proper mouthpieces) out of random piping, and when played together they produced "harmonies" that were ... interesting.

I think he's practised this quite a bit.

[#24 posted by hobomike , November 17, 2008 11:45 PM]

Who said that beans were the musical fruit?

[#25 posted by dewexdewex , November 18, 2008 2:51 AM]

What did he carve the delay pedal out of? A manglewurzel?

[#26 posted by Beanolini , November 18, 2008 3:14 AM]

Apparently, at the end of performances by the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, the audience are served soup made from the 'instruments'.

Anyone who's ever seen the drain valve opened on a brass instrument might feel a bit squeamish about eating this soup.

[#27 posted by Amplifier , November 18, 2008 4:06 AM]

This guy also plays a pretty mean bicycle.

[#28 posted by Carlos , November 18, 2008 4:52 AM]

The world is awesome.

[#29 posted by picojeff , November 18, 2008 9:35 AM]

That fine and beautiful instrument is a Carrote-Chalumeau.

[#30 posted by Bryan Price , November 18, 2008 10:26 AM]

Having built a clarinet out of copper tubing as a physics project (I calculated where the holes needed to be drilled), and also having played the E flat clarinet (supranino), I can make these observations.

Drilling random holes in whatever cylinder isn't going to make it in tune, and yes, the performance was in tune.

That was no clarinet mouthpiece, not even an supranino mouth piece.

That short of a cylinder isn't going to play that deep. Up it an octave.

My copper clarinet didn't even sound close to what my real clarinet sounded like. A carrot? YKTBFKM.

[#31 posted by Anonymous , November 27, 2008 1:33 PM]

You definitely need a US-sized carrot to do that..you might need to go for a Piccolo with an Italian one :D

Alberto R.S.