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Does Bunbury have an orchestra?

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SelfPortraitWithEels · 07/05/2021 14:41

(Also, can just anyone start a Bunbury thread or do you have to be a Weighty Feminist? Apologies if so, I will retreat tugging my forelock.)

Someone mentioned the cornet. Can I bagsy the kettle drum?

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CardinalLolzy · 11/05/2021 00:00

I can see them now!

CardinalLolzy · 11/05/2021 00:00

Is something weird happening to this thread? On my Threads I'm Watching I can see two posts about Aiken Drum. But the last post I can actually see on the thread is my own one clashing about.

When I click on the other posts from TIW it goes to page 1 of the thread.

ErrolTheDragon · 10/05/2021 23:48

@stonecat

In Scotland we have a song about Aiken Drum. He played upon a ladle apparently, so that'll do for me.

Tunes ladle.

We learned that in my primary school in Essex.

There was a man lived in the moon, lived in the moon lived in the moon,
There was a man lived in the moon, and his name was Aiken Drum
And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle
And he played upon a ladle
And his name was Aiken Drum
And his hat was made of good green cheese, of good green cheese, of good green cheese
And his hat was made of good green cheese
And his name was Aiken drum.

....

... having just dredged that out of my memory, I've checked v wiki which says 'cream cheese' but I'm sure we learned 'green' which is more appropriate for a man in the moon.Grin

stonecat · 10/05/2021 23:39

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CardinalLolzy · 10/05/2021 23:12

Wotcha!
I've heard this song too many times before! Change the record over, someone?!

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 10/05/2021 16:36

@Zeugma

zzizzer

By God, with enough grim determination, there will be!

Mahler won't know what hit him!

Maybe the Symphony of a Thousand.......triangles? Heck, why not! Grin

I want to take part in Mr Tambourine Man accompanied by a massed orchestra of tambourines.

Look, we all wanted to be on tambourine and got lumbered with triangle instead, and not even the big triangle, the little weedy one, right? So there ought to be plenty of us to join in.

(When my daughter was posted to Afghanistan she taught herself to play the ukulele before she left, because it was less fragile than the guitar.)

oppositeofbubbly · 10/05/2021 16:32

My orchestral playing is a bit rusty at best, but I have a plastic squeeker removed from a dog toy (as it was being destroyed by DDog, I'm a brave one!). I think I'll play that. I know quite a few accomplished musicians so I recon I can pull off looking the part and I'll try to learn a phew musician-y phrases. Actually, I'm starting to think that there should be nothing stopping me and my squeeker from becoming the orchestra leader (bloody violinists and their cis-musician privilege)

BlackeyedSusan · 10/05/2021 16:29
BlackeyedSusan · 10/05/2021 16:25

I can offer two instruments....

Hands to make an owl Sound or hands and piece of grass

OwBist · 10/05/2021 13:27

I can see it now.... Lauren Bacall turns to Humphrey Bogart, says "you do know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put this skull thing in your mouth and it screams!" Smile

ArabellaScott · 10/05/2021 12:35

It's not really haunting and lovely, Embarrassing, it sounds like someone screaming in terror!

The Oomphalapompatronium was much more cheering.

Jannetra17 · 10/05/2021 11:28

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EmbarrassingAdmissions · 09/05/2021 22:37

Death whistles? Just the name puts me in the cold thrall of thinking of that story, Whistle and I'll Come to You - I've no doubt it produces a haunting and lovely sound but I shall save those for another day.

MrsWooster - there may have been a fair amount of similar muttering when DH unilaterally decided that the lockdown would be an excellent opportunity for him to learn the ukulele.

Arabella - thank you for Fumi Watanabe's Tequila - she would be such a wonderful member of any orchestra.

And, Odense - whose quirky heart could remain unmelted watching the Oomphalapompatronium? All that wood dust and the honesty of all those plastic joints - it's heartwarming to see it.

Odense · 09/05/2021 22:25

I give you the Oomphalapompatronium

www.facebook.com/RareAndStrangeInstruments/videos/951656948253243/?so=channel_tab&rv=all_videos_card

There’s also instructions on how to make your own death whistle

stonecat · 09/05/2021 20:49

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MrsWooster · 09/05/2021 18:10

I’m learning the piano and am happy to join provided that everything is played sepulchrally slowly and you don’t mind a baseline of muttered “ffs”

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 09/05/2021 18:04

[quote EndoplasmicReticulum]Embarrassing that bayan player is competent. Vivaldi has too many notes.

That's why being a viola player is a good option as you get to avoid all that nonsense.

[/quote] :) I was impressed by the bayan player's skills (one of my grandfathers and an uncle were keen accordion players). I wondered if everyone but me knew about the bayan.
ArabellaScott · 09/05/2021 18:03

Like when my son was in year 3 and the school provided them all with clarinets to play and then there was an assembly.

Grin

Sometimes I think teachers are very good at organising passive aggressive school concerts.

MsAwesomeDragon · 09/05/2021 18:01

I'd like to change my instrument to the Northumbrian pipes please.
A beautiful instrument, that people have rarely heard of.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 09/05/2021 18:01

I like the Aztec death whistle. An orchestra of those would be quite something.

Like when my son was in year 3 and the school provided them all with clarinets to play and then there was an assembly.

ArabellaScott · 09/05/2021 17:59

Here's a tutorial of how to make your own Death Whistle if you want to join in with the kids!

ArabellaScott · 09/05/2021 17:57

Finishing up with an Aztec Death Whistle, seeing as it's Sunday.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 09/05/2021 17:55

Embarrassing that bayan player is competent. Vivaldi has too many notes.

That's why being a viola player is a good option as you get to avoid all that nonsense.

ArabellaScott · 09/05/2021 17:44

Sorry to rock up late.

I brought everything I could find in the shed.

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 09/05/2021 17:34

Is anybody competent on this (new to me) instrument, the bayan?

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