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Play the Cracker
Wrapper
3-3-2003 I can play the cracker wrapper. I bet you can too! It's quite an easy instrument to learn, actually. All you need is one of those little six packs of crackers - the kind you get from vending machines. They have different flavors, like peanut putter between two orange crackers or cheese between two crackers, etc. Anyway, I was eatin' some of those crackers in the car when I made the startling, groundbreaking discovery of the decade that after you eat a few of the crackers, you can sorta hum-while-blowing-air into the cracker wrapper, and it will make a vibrating noise!! Sometimes you can even feel the vibrations if the wrapper's touching your chin. Properly playing the cracker wrapper may require difficult technique, I admit, but I got it in no time at all. To make the cracker wrapper a true musical instrument (and to sound fancier), change the pitch of your humming to change the sound the wrapper makes when it vibrates. Also, I recommend eating all the crackers except one or two; that produces the best sound. The cracker wrapper is a great instrument for multiple reasons: it's cheap, it's widely available (get one at your local vending machine!), it helps fill your tummy (with the crackers, don't eat the wrapper!!), it's disposable, it's plastic, it's kinda like a cheap kazoo, and it's a brand-new instrument!! I gotta give a shout out
to my sister Allison, who's birthday is today. Happy Birthday Allison!!!
(hmmm... maybe I should play "Happy Birthday" with a cracker wrapper) |