http://www.moonmilk.com/2008/02/25/thing-24-trumpet-saline/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.moonmilk.com/2008/02/25/thing-24-trumpet-saline/comment-page-1/#comment-43097 Vote for your favorite Garden Instrument! | The Oddstrument Collection Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:11:39 +0000 http://www.moonmilk.com/2008/02/25/thing-24-trumpet-saline/#comment-43097 [...] I originally named the project Trumpet Marine because it was going to be made up of water-powered horns, but it was also an homage to the stringed instrument known as the Trumpet Marine (or Tromba Marina), which I’ve been a bit obsessed with since I saw one in the Musical Instruments Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (I made a sort of hobo Tromba Marina as one of my 29 Instruments in 29 Days. So when I had to change my plans and make a stringed instrument of my own instead of a horn, it pleased me to keep the Trumpet Marine name. [...] [...] I originally named the project Trumpet Marine because it was going to be made up of water-powered horns, but it was also an homage to the stringed instrument known as the Trumpet Marine (or Tromba Marina), which I’ve been a bit obsessed with since I saw one in the Musical Instruments Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (I made a sort of hobo Tromba Marina as one of my 29 Instruments in 29 Days. So when I had to change my plans and make a stringed instrument of my own instead of a horn, it pleased me to keep the Trumpet Marine name. [...]

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