Cheapass Flutophone

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Zaphod B

Zaphod B

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I guess it's my own fault. :D

I just wanted a cheap recorder (of the woodwind variety) to try it out on a song I'm working on.

The only thing I could find nearby was a cheap plastic flutophone - like a recorder, but with a couple of extra holes to obtain half-tones. How cheap, you ask? How about $3.75? :eek: :D

The damned thing's intonation is so far off it's laughable. At a one-octave fingering it is a full step sharp. I can't figure out how to get the notes I want; they're all going to be screwed up. :confused:

How hard can it be to set up an accurate template for a plastic recorder, for goodness' sake?

OK, I've finished ranting. :p
 
The funny thing is

that's what they used on us in 'pre-band' in jr high, to try and teach us to read music, before we picked or were assigned instruments. I'm sure I still have mine somewhere (I keep everything). Maybe ours were better quality. They were probably 'real' flutophones. :rolleyes:
 
notCardio said:
that's what they used on us in 'pre-band' in jr high, to try and teach us to read music, before we picked or were assigned instruments.
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Yeah, this thing is definitely elementary-school-grade material.

What gets me, though, is that it would not cost one penny more to make an accurate plastic mold than one that is so far off. I mean, shit, how hard can it be? :confused:
 
Haha yeah, those are what we had in "music class" in elementary school. I still have one somewhere.
 
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