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Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:59 pm
by Navytubaman
Never seen one of these before, and there are two on Ebay.
What is it?
How does it play?
Looks like a Kazoo..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Musical ... 3a90a05a02" target="_blank" target="_blank
Anyone have any experience behind one of these?
Re: Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:05 am
by dwaskew
Re: Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:08 am
by Navytubaman
Thanks!.
The collective knowledge is always better than one.
Not something I've ever run into. Now that you showed me other pictures I had seen smaller ones in Europe, just never this large.
Bet it would be a blast at Tuba Christmas!
Re: Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:33 am
by ppalan
Navytubaman wrote:The collective knowledge is always better than one.
Resistance is futile
Pete
Re: Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:46 am
by Chuck Jackson
Navytubaman wrote:Bet it would be a blast at Tuba Christmas!
I'm assuming you have heard one and are being facetious. How in the great name of sound and tonality more than two of these instruments were ever allowed to be within 20 miles of each other is a mystery to mankind. I have to honestly say that that is my version of musical hell. But, hey, they seem to be huge in Germany.
Chuck
Re: Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:43 pm
by Rick F
Oh my! Sounds like an out-of-tune Calliope.
Sure wish I had those 5 minutes back.
Re: Four Bell Helicon??
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:40 am
by imperialbari
Worst problem is that they are so
serious about themselves:
http://youtu.be/c-F7WYYYvW0
But I have seen worse.
Ulster has marching accordion bands.
An English movie had a mounted kazoo band, boys on cockhorses.