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After I took Ryusei and Hideki back to the San Francisco airport to send them back to Japan <wipes tear away> I decided to treat myself to a completely and utterly sleep deprived and festival overwhelmed day in the city since I was so close. I love going to Haight Ashbury to shop so I went there and found a great instrument at a toy store there called a Water Trumpet. It's shaped like a trumpet but it has five clear plastic water pipes (with side markings for tuning with the level of water you put into it). You blow through it but it won't sound until you open the trumpet 'valve' to basically blow the panpipe styled whistle. It doesn't sound like a trumpet at all, but , even better, it sounds like those really cheap 50's and 60's air portable electric pipe organs. I put it under the water and let the pipes fill up at random intervals which forced a really cool found scale. I just love found scales and you can play it polyphonically as well. I just recorded a snippet so you can hear the sounds. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/283659/TOY%20WATER%20TRUMPET%20demo.WAV The wheezing is my reactive airwave disease that I've had all my life reacting to the over the top amount of pollen in the air we're having after this ridiculous heatwave that hit Santa Cruz after the loopers left. It was 90 degrees yesterday but cooled off today. The pollen is covering the windshields of our car after having cleaned them on Wednesday. Also, I went to the website of a company that carries this cool kiddie instrument and found a plethora of cool toy instruments, including those wonderful tuned bells that I play a lot in concert. People always ask me where I got them and here is where you can buy a little set. They also have a very hip looking toy banjo for sale that I think I"m going to spring for.........it's really inexpensive. http://www.stewarttoys.com/category/musicalinstruments/ enjoy!! Rick Walker