Interesting contraption
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Interesting contraption
Came across this:
Can't quite see how it will work with equal spaced one size fits all holes and the lower end closed but maybe it was meant to hang off your belt or something like that and unscrew the end before use. Too high a price on it (especially once postage added) to chance it just to satisfy my curiosity.
Can't quite see how it will work with equal spaced one size fits all holes and the lower end closed but maybe it was meant to hang off your belt or something like that and unscrew the end before use. Too high a price on it (especially once postage added) to chance it just to satisfy my curiosity.
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Re: Interesting contraption
It looks like a bottle opener. Might be just the thing.
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Re: Interesting contraption
I had the same thought.Nanohedron wrote:It looks like a bottle opener.
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Re: Interesting contraption
It had occurred to me too, I must admit. But it makes the whole whistle part obsolete doesn't it?
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Re: Interesting contraption
C'mon, Mr.Gumby. Buy it. You know you want to.
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Re: Interesting contraption
If you don't want to buy it, where is it being sold. Someone else may decide it's a treasure (or buy it just to easy your curiosity).Mr.Gumby wrote:Came across this:...
Can't quite see how it will work with equal spaced one size fits all holes and the lower end closed but maybe it was meant to hang off your belt or something like that and unscrew the end before use. Too high a price on it (especially once postage added) to chance it just to satisfy my curiosity.
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Re: Interesting contraption
Slide whistle of some type? Maybe an industrial whistle - steam, locomotive?
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Re: Interesting contraption
They're all over Ebay.
I saw one in the flesh as it were. On that one, the whistle part didn't connect with the tone holes --- it was just a piece of solid brass.
I saw one in the flesh as it were. On that one, the whistle part didn't connect with the tone holes --- it was just a piece of solid brass.
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Re: Interesting contraption
That's reassuring...Makes a noise! I don’t know if it’s playing right.
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Re: Interesting contraption
Its pretty.
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Re: Interesting contraption
If the bottom end is permanently closed, it might be played ocarina-style. By this I mean that one or two fingers could be lifted at a time, with most holes kept covered.
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Re: Interesting contraption
I think something that odd needs to be hanging on the wall in a pub, so people can have a contest: you buy a "yard of ale" or a pint of premium ale, and you can have the beer free if you can figure out how to drink their beer in under 1 minute, using that contraption. Judges will be other patrons, who give the thumbs up or down. Laugh's-a-plenty!
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Re: Interesting contraption
Speaking of instruments with strange round metal things on the bottom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3EgapgFCI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3EgapgFCI0
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Re: Interesting contraption
I'm still thinking it's a bottle opener/ocarina