Contest!

by wjw on October 8, 2015

PAE07CCThe first person to identify the object in the photo will win free downloads of all 11 Philip K Dick Award-nominated novels, now available at StoryBundle.

This thing looks like you might find it at IKEA, but you’d be wrong.

Dirk Bergstrom October 8, 2015 at 10:37 pm

I’ve seen it before. I think it’s a baritone recorder, but it might be an ultramodern bassoon.

Urban October 9, 2015 at 7:18 am

The image is Google-searchable, so it’s about who first thinks to try that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfDk7DlK58
I thought the mouthpiece looked like one and I’ve played woodwinds, so I *could* have come up with a correct guess after counting the holes.

Lektu October 9, 2015 at 7:21 am
wjw October 9, 2015 at 3:06 pm

And it’s Urban for the win!

Yes, it’s a sub-contrabass recorder, first patented in 1975 by Paetzold, and made out of plywood. The sound is similar to that of a didgeridoo.

wjw October 9, 2015 at 3:07 pm

Urban, send me your email and I’ll respond with a download code.

TRX October 11, 2015 at 5:10 pm

I would never have suspected it was a musical instrument.

Every time I look at it, it looks like a prop from some Star Wars movie. It just has that Lucasfilm *look*.

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