Incredible but true! Clarinets can be built from almost everything, the proof in this video: Linsey Pollak, an australian instrument maker, makes and plays a carrot clarinet!

He makes other instruments, too, like watering can clarinets, rubber glove bagpipes, garden hose contrabass clarinets! See more on youtube.

Obviously, what makes a clarinet is not the material it’s made of. Through time, clarinets have been made of wood of course, like grenadilla, but also metal, ivory, composite materials, or… carrots 😉

To make a clarinet, what you need is a cylindrical bore and a single reed, no matter what the material is!

To learn more about the influence of the wall material on wind instruments, please visite Pauline Eveno‘s great blog.