Althouse: "Careless Whisper" on 100 instruments.

June 3, 2023

"Careless Whisper" on 100 instruments.

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20 comments:

John E. said...: It's funny that he's doing "Careless Whisper" when this is such a careful and non-whispery bit of work. Of course it's amazing he can play all these instruments. Also I was wondering whether he works in the Rare Instrument Museum - where did he get his hands on all these things? It was interesting to hear what I think was tuning differences on some of the shifts between exotic instruments. You can tune the stringed instruments, but you're stuck with the way horn sounds, I think.; 6/3/23, 11:21 AM
Aggie said...: (Jack Benny Voice) Well !; 6/3/23, 11:25 AM
Earnest Prole said...: One of the indelible masterpieces of popular music.; 6/3/23, 11:28 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I don’t remember seeing the bagpipes. Maybe they are considered far right now?; 6/3/23, 12:47 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: He improved it.
Like all pop - it's simplistically repetitive.; 6/3/23, 12:53 PM
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...: I am impressed. Can't say where he got all the instruments from, and there are some he left out (viola d'amore, hardanger fiddle, IIRC no sax in there at all), but what he did do is pretty spectacular.; 6/3/23, 1:10 PM
Larry J said...: On the one hand, he only needed to know how to play a few notes on each instrument instead of the full range of each instrument’s capability. On the other hand, it was an imaginative and impressive performance. I enjoyed it.; 6/3/23, 1:33 PM
Gahrie said...: I don’t remember seeing the bagpipes. Maybe they are considered far right now?

Thisshould tide you over....

https://youtu.be/eQluGs2SFRs; 6/3/23, 2:03 PM
Wilbur said...: Aggie said...
(Jack Benny Voice) Well !

(Rochester Voice) Ohhh boss .... Come now!!!; 6/3/23, 2:41 PM
madAsHell said...: The intensity in his eyes. Son of Rasputin?; 6/3/23, 2:58 PM
Narr said...: Well done!

A dudelsack or okarina by any other name would sound as sweet.

Did I miss the flugelhorn?; 6/3/23, 4:27 PM
technochitlin said...: If he was actually playing those instruments, that's a fair bit of musical talent on display, regardless.; 6/3/23, 4:34 PM
Dave Begley said...: No steel guitar. Fail!; 6/3/23, 6:33 PM
KJohnson said...: In the YouTube video comments, he says the instruments are part of his personal collection. That in itself is impressive, but the fact that he plays all of them competently and most of them quite well. . .wow.; 6/3/23, 9:02 PM
Oligonicella said...: Tubular Bells by Micheal Oldfield may have only had 48 instruments all played by one man BUT it was an entire piece of highly orchestrated music, which is a damn sight more than just a series of bars on unrelated instruments.; 6/3/23, 9:03 PM
Oligonicella said...: Tubular Bells by Micheal Oldfield may have only had 48 instruments all played by one man BUT it was an entire piece of highly orchestrated music, which is a damn sight more than just a series of bars on unrelated instruments.; 6/3/23, 9:05 PM
Rocco said...: I don’t remember seeing the bagpipes. Maybe they are considered far right now?

Gahrie responded...
"This should tide you over.... https://youtu.be/eQluGs2SFRs"

"It's a Long Way to the Top" is a classic. But if you want rock with a bagpipe focus, here a cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91dyBwmYcw; 6/3/23, 9:47 PM
Josephbleau said...: I have seen the same thing from Roy Clarke. Is he still alive?; 6/3/23, 11:16 PM
stlcdr said...: A lot of instruments are so similar (stringed, wind) yet have very different and unique - and cultural- sounds.; 6/4/23, 8:08 AM
RMc said...: More like 15-20 instruments, since most of them are just variations on other instruments. (Still cool, tho.); 6/4/23, 8:26 AM