Everything makes a noise when struck with something else. The idea is to print unto certain products the exact note that they will create when suspended and tapped with a small percussion hammer.

Collect, assemble and learn to play your own musical instrument, courtesy of the domestic products that surround you.
-- xenzag, Mar 06 2006

I don't know if you get a "note" when striking a croissant with a hammer, but you're welcome to try on this one ((
-- phundug, Mar 06 2006


Is the glass A# or Bb?
-- egbert, Mar 06 2006


<pedant> Except in a small subset of musical systems, A# and Bb are different pitche(r)s. </pedant>
-- spidermother, Mar 07 2006


A# and Bb are only different on paper.
-- Jscotty, Mar 07 2006


OK, if we're going to get pedantic, despite what my parents used to maintain, a musical instrument is more than something that just makes a noise.

Having said that, I used to know someone who was so musical he could have got a tune out of a dead fish.
-- egbert, Mar 07 2006


[Jscotty]//A# and Bb are only different on paper// Only in 12-equal temperament and some other compromised tunings. You're living in the 20th century, man!

[xenzag] I like the phrase //print unto//.
-- spidermother, Mar 07 2006


Forger's motto: "Print unto Caesar"
-- egbert, Mar 07 2006


I don't hear a note when I hit this sponge.
-- xandram, Mar 07 2006


//where did B# and E# go anyway ?//

I started to answer this, but my annotation was becoming an essay (is Vernon a verb yet ;-)). B# and E# are useful names in certain (rare) contexts, but are omitted from the simplified theory taught at school. The distinction between, eg, B# and C relates to the musical context - what function the note has relative to other notes. In some systems B# is the same pitch as C, but in others it isn't.

If I get that essay finished, I'll post a link to it.
-- spidermother, Mar 07 2006


egbert - what is your (parent's) definition of a musical instrument? - just curious. I like the idea of playing a dead fish - a thousand fish puns then follow, oh no not again!! ( see fishy fishnets for them all, before putting any more up)
-- xenzag, Mar 07 2006


Their opinion was that the ones I listened to were a Bb##### noise.
-- egbert, Mar 07 2006


Can a pin drop in d minor?
-- skinflaps, Mar 08 2006


only if it produces at least 2 notes.
-- bleh, May 31 2006


//I don't hear a note when I hit this sponge// B splat
-- mouseposture, Jan 15 2010



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