Garden-hose horn!

Materials:

Hose
Duct-tape
Plastic funnel
Mouthpiece (optional)


This didn't go as perfectly as I had hoped- I didn't have a full length of hose available for me to consume, leaving me with two problems: It's not as long as it should be, so the sound quality isn't as it good, and I wasn't able to give it the right pitch. But nevertheless, it's a lot of fun and it looks pretty cool.


Instead, I just grabbed two really old hoses/pieces of hose and started to tape them up/together. I added a plastic funnel as a bell, and cut an aperture through the duct-tape I laid over the lead-pipe so it can be played with or without a mouthpiece.

The tone isn't horrible. Obviously you have to sacrifice some quality when blowing through rubber rather than brass. The range of notes is quite good as well, there are only a few notes that it won't hit on the harmonic series- being somewhat out of tune notwithstanding. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a killer on the chops and so spending too much time playing it isn't great. The partials are all in different places (for the handful of you know what I mean) and the quick excerpt that I play took quite a bit of practice to get down.

It isn't really up to the task of playing a full piece, so I recorded a sample of the range and the opening of Siegfried's Call (Wagner).

Hello, level 6.