For all those suffering from an acute case of WhOA:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2522599364&category=308
My favorite feature (besides the loooooovely color): " Some vintage tooth marks." ;-)=
PC
For all those suffering from an acute case of WhOA:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2522599364&category=308
My favorite feature (besides the loooooovely color): " Some vintage tooth marks." ;-)=
PC
So, are the vintage toothmarks supposed to be a plus?
I’m afraid my first word when I saw the picture was
“!?”
As long as we’re on the subject of Tonette-like, recorder-inspired, patent schoolroom instruments, check these out!
http://www.suzukimusic.com/education/pages/precorder.html
How’s that for a conical bore? And now available in transparent plastic, the better to see your “condensation”! The greatest thing in schoolhouse gross-out since they started putting slime in cannisters!
I think my whistle should have come with award stickers too.
Never saw a red one before. Now I wish I hadn’t. It’s just too disturbing. “Tooth marks?” Sounds like maybe this time the ‘rug rat’ really WAS a rodent.
I think the sticker idea is great. I probably would have earned at least two by now, maybe even three.
I guess I’d be still trying for my 1st
“Vintage tooth marks”…
Might this be the mysterious zubivka, so noted by our own eponymous and chiffworthy Zubie-dubie for its being “played with the teeth” (zub)? Judging from its color, I would venture that it dates from the time of the Soviet Bloc.
Cool. If vintage tooth marks on a tonette make it worth more, than have I got the tonette for you. I’ve got a black one that appears to have been a pacifier
Erik
Ah! the dulcet screech of the Tonette! A virtual cornucopia of musical wonders. Well, not as sweet as the recorder, which is the noise of the angels, but definitely right up there with the lollipop slidewhistle!
I once knew a hairdresser named Tonette…she had such a bouffante that if she stood in front of a light source, you could see her skull thru it.
Geez, Walden, enuf with the Food Porn, already! Do you have any idea how much it slows down my screen? Really.
N
Then again, I suppose I don’t have to wait around to gawk at it…
The condensation in a whistle pop is just too scary to think about.
Did you see the Suzuki premium, a mini-recorder on a keychain? Who’s going to be the first to get one??
shudder
madfifer9
In my first paying gig, I played a Tonette with the Winston-Salem Symphony. It was for the cuckoo part in Haydn’s Toy Symphony. (We couldn’t locate a real cuckoo whistle in time for the performance.)
I had one of these back in 2nd grade and it was red also. I always wanted to get the add on bell for the bottom. Ahhhh… the sweet memories of countless hours learning and playing “When The Saints” …
Frank