Help me, Patrick Moore!

[Bobmuhthol]

Apparently I have a project due tomorrow that I completely forgot about. It's to make an instrument and play an octave + song on it. The point is for the difference in pitch/frequency to be noticeable. I'm thinking of making a xylophone out of a bunch of cardboard boxes and soda cans.

Before I fail miserably, will this work?

[Kadumi]

Shoulda asked Roger Moore.

[Skirmisher]

Why not do the old glasses filled with different amount of water thingie.

They do that on TV like semi regularly, no?

Or are those like Waterford Crystal or some other such horribly expensive sort of glassware?

[Artha]

It works with all glass.

[Kadumi]

not true! some glasses are immune!

[Sean]

Be lazy and just go beat on a 5 gallon paint bucket or empty 5 gallon spackle bucket.

[Bobmuhthol]

It didn't work.

At all.

The question still remains: What the fuck was I thinking?

[Numbers]

http://www.markshep.com/flute/Pipe.html

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Bobmuhthol
What the fuck was I thinking? I bet it has to do with that other topic you started recently. Women are bad for the legs, and you can't think if you keep falling down and knocking your head on things, you know?

[Bobmuhthol]

I still need some ideas. Badly. Can't do the pipe thing because I don't have a pipe.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I can play the old boxes that chiclets come in like a kazzu (however you spell it).

[Latrinsorm]

Rubber band guitar.

[Numbers]

Take a plastic soda bottle. Not the 2 liter one, the small 12oz ones.

Poke some small holes in it along it. Blow into it like a brass flute.

Not sure if it'll have an octave+ range, though.

A rubber band guitar would also work.

[Back]

I'd go with the glass idea if you consider a bunch of glasses a water xylophone. Otherwise, you can tip a container half full of water and tap it with a pencil for different octives. Gonna have to practice a bit though so you don't spill.