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                              Electric Clarinets

Back in middle school I played the clarinet [1]. The first year, I rented an
all-plastic clarinet and had trouble understanding why the other students had
trouble getting a nice clear sound out of the instrument. It was the
following year when my Mom got me a real clarinet that I found out just how
difficult they could be. I ended up faking my way through the rest of the
that year and never bothered to continue playing the instrument. Of course,
that didn't prevent me from playing the electric clarinet during college
(it's a joke—some friends and I formed a joke band [2] called the Blender
Children [3] (also known as “The World's Most Dangerous Peer Group”) and
threatened many times to go on tour).

So I'm amazed that what looks like high school students actually made an
electric clarinet. Or rather, a robot that can play the clarinet [4] (link
via kisrael.com [5]).

Wow.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarinet
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/07/02.1
[3] http://www.videoranch.com/html/blenderchildren.html
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAIeTm4lO5Q
[5] http://kisrael.com/2008/07/17/

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