Nothing more to add…
An enormous xylophone in the woods plays Bach when a wooden ball rolls down each key
by 22 Comments
Comments
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Musings on the byways of popular culture
by 22 Comments
Nothing more to add…
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Hopefully, the next project will be to set it up to play Ruth’s marimba part from St. Alphonso’s Pancake Breakfast…
Dominus vobiscum.
Dominoes ad nauseum.
I can beat anybody at dorrrrminoes,
Do you mean dominerrrrs?
…and, for completeness…
“Once more with feeling…”
Harve: “Are you through with that fish?”
Yes.
I didn’t understand this…
Sorry – it’s an obscure reference, even by the standards of the Afterword. I just thought someone might get it.
“I’m Through With The Fish, Harve” is from an eighties album by New Riders of The Purple Sage – Before Time Began. The Backwards Tapes has one of the band playing around with their recordings – the ‘Harve’ song is loosely based on the same Bach tune as the OP video (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring).
The ‘lyrics’ go like this:
I’m Through With The Fish.
I’m Through With
The Fish. I am Through
With The Fish. I am Through With
I’m Through With The Fish
Harve
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised it’s hard to find an audio clip online.
It’s the spine of a wooden dinosaur.
Deleted scene from The Blair Witch Project ?
For those moments when tuning your 12-string just isn’t enough.
I enjoyed that so I Googled.
It was a Japanese project. Here’s a page about building the xylophone and filming.
http://seiichihishikawa.info/xylophone
Rather a vulnerable musical instrument, I fear. All too easy for vengeful, death-metal squirrels to put the boot in!
A series of congas that play the solo from Spandau Ballet’s ‘Gold’. That’d be something.
This is exactly what Youtube was made for. Im awestruck that anyone has the patience to construct something like this. Im still recovering from sanding down my kitchen worktops earlier this week – mind you they do sound lovely now.
Ohhh, you do do right. Can’t be doing with getting splinters when you’re doing Worktop Piano. (Worktop Hammond in my case)
Worktop Hammond – a poor man’s Pinetop Perkins
Arf!
Well it just about beats the videos my daughter took of me and the boy doing 3 feet, 4 feet and 5 feet of the Malteser tape measure challenge. I had that tape measure for over 20 years but broke it doing the 5 feet one. But, undeterred, we then did 6 feet at only the second attempt with my new tape measure a couple of days later, but my daughter wasn’t there to film it. Not sure we’re going to try any further, just in case, you know, he chokes on one. That would take a bit of explaining to the ex.
Although we have been wondering how long the staircase is…
Me in about April last year, coming back from the shops in a state of exasperation:
“Nobody knows what two metres is! Stupid bastards!”
Mrs Moose & I got the tape measure out. A few seconds later I muttered:
“Oh. Turns out I don’t know either”