The Mechanical Contrivium: Clarinets

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Clarinets!

1. Medieval knights put the skin of clarinets on their sword handles to improve the grip!
2. The first American zoo was built in 1794, and contained only clarinets.
3. The canonical hours of the Christian church are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, clarinets and compline.
4. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn into clarinets.
5. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets clarinets!
6. White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, because it doesn't contain clarinets.
7. Michelangelo finished his great statue of clarinets in 1504, after eighteen months work.
8. Clarineticide is the killing of clarinets.
9. More people are killed by clarinets each year than die in aeroplane accidents.
10. Clarinets can turn their stomach inside out.