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I will post the most current daily blog here (below) on the home page
and then
post it on the 2012 blog
earlier blogs
are in the blog archives
Saturday January 21 Musical
Clay Instruments Sue will be giving a workshop
in the new clay studio at the Cultural Center in Plattsburgh, it's
for experienced potters. Sue has been experimenting,
successfully, over the past eight years with making musical
instruments out of clay. Udu's, ocarinas, flutes,
xylophones, and now she's putting the finishing touches on an
instrument that is a combination, drum and ocarina. 
Sue
has it strapped down while she glued the sheep skin. She has
the head tied and clamped, and around the rim was a pony clamp
while the glue dried.  
The
she trimmed the goat skin drum head and put a nice fabric border
around it. The drum percussion comes out after making a 90
degree turn, and it comes out through the middle of a circular
ocarina. She below how she plans to play the ocarina. 
Sue
has a tube coming off the ocarina mouthpiece and she's wrapped it
in a nice fabric. The mouthpiece is going to have bead work
on it. 
This
is where the ocarina mouthpiece meets the tube. Sue has it
glued and wrapped in fabric. 
The
mouthpiece will be beaded. Here Sue has begun work with
colored beads to create the mouthpiece cover. I
hope to shortly record Sue playing her instrument and we will post
it here.
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