From balloon-request@fooledya.com  Wed May  8 16:14:17 1996
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 14:01:53 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sir Twist <nbundy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
To: Kevin Kinney <kkinney@med.unc.edu>
Cc: beaverson sheena k <sbeavers@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
        Balloon Mailing List <balloon@fooledya.com>
Subject: Re: Balloon Instruments (Was: Chicago Hope)
In-Reply-To: <9605081302.AA09497@addor.med.unc.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.A32.3.91.960508135901.16993A-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>

On Wed, 8 May 1996, Kevin Kinney wrote:

> Sheena posts:
> > 
> > obBalloons:  one of the musical instruments they used for the emporer's 
> > new clothes was an inflated surgical glove.  The clown would pull 
> > (stretch) one of the inflated finges and then let it thump back down, for 
> > a base beat.
> 
> I've experimented with blowing up a 6-12 inch bubble in a 260, trying it,
> then stepping on the knot and pulling the uninflated part taut, and
> playing it upright (plucked) bass style.  I haven't quite managed a real
> scale (and probably won't) but it's a nifty bit anyway...
> 
> Kevin Kinney

Well, If you take a 260, and inflate it 3 inches, and make a 1 inch tulip 
twist,and pass it thru the center hole of a large Geo, you can get a 
really cool bass!
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