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Gorkaphone
Fictional wind instrument fom the April 11, 1963 "Out of My Head" humor column in Downbeat Magazine. It's played by musician Gimp Lymphly on the Zoot Finster Octet album At Sun Valley.
A recent arrival on the jazz scene, Lymphly was discovered by miscellaneous-instrumentalist Cameron Lindsay Jr. while he was working in a razor-blade factory near Duluth. He masters the somewhat difficult gorkaphone (a cross between bassonium and ear flute) as a French chef masters a recipe. His tone on the unwieldy horn has a Far East tang, which is probably why he chooses to sprinkle his lines with bits of Buddhist music. His only fault, in this reviewer's eyes, is a tendency to forget the melody line, a lapse that explains his playing "I'll Remember April" on every track.
