Contrabass Flute aka “why can’t you just be normal, son?”

Sep 6, 2022 12:21 AM

djcrueller

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Missed opportunity (better title): “Check out this awesome dress”

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I’d like to see Ian Anderson standing on one leg playing one of those.

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I've been around imgur long enough to know that this is someone's fetish

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Getting enough air through a normal flute is hard enough and this lady is playing the plumbing.

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Wake up the neighbors. Cause a ruckus. Carrying that around must suck.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know almost every classical symphony instrument there is. But I had never seen, or even heard of, a contra-bass flute. Way cool!!

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WOW! That is so cool! Now play "Rhapsody in Blue"

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Paige's Band Camp.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Is she in a Contraband?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I bet that thing could hit the brown note ?

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

My girl blows mad pipe and looks and dresses good while doing it! ?

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

I love that dress

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Emilo Pucci

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Jethro Tull intensifies

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The way the keys clack, its practically a percussion instrumet

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I DO like that dress!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is this flute suitable to use as a leprechaun flute, in say, Alabama?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

How many parts to fit it in a case ?!?

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

There's no case, it turns up on the back of a scaffolding truck

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Six to nine

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Note on the tags: This is a woodwind instrument, not a brass instrument :)

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Aw crap. Oops!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Now do "Flight of the Bumblebees"

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Yes, also Rhapsody in Blue!

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

That’s awesome. At first glance I thought it was going to be a huge bong and I think I’m going to do a little self reflecting. Cool vid tho

4 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 4

Stoners: it still could be…

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With a little work, it could be...

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Seeing as it is a flute it would not even be difficult.

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Jethro Hernia

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Jethro Tull

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OH RLLY? Is that the actual name of the band founded by Ian Anderson/Martin Barre/Glenn Cornick/Clive Bunker? Gee, I didn't know that!

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Was supposed to be clever joke 'Jethro Tall' but autocorrect ruined it.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ok that I'll allow. Gag acknowledged, superfluousness violation vacated

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This one time at band camp...

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Honestly was my first thought, too: "Imagine if THAT was the flute Michelle in 'American Pie' used as a dildo at band camp!"

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The bass alone would rattle her teeth out

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That guy is perfect for the bad guy in the live action rendition of the Incredibles

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That guy is Alan Tudyk. He's been in a lot of cool shit.

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Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be talented AND attractive. But then I stop and wonder what it's like to be one of those things.

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I may not be handsome, but I am reasonably handy. I try my hands at many things but still haven't found any secret talent at age 53

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Burn unit is just down the road.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

talent is generous. She may be brilliant but this is just a scale, you can learn that in a few days.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone needs some ice

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Just consider yourself talented at being unattractive.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Rednalooz?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just like you do now, but the opposite of that.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

I downvoted myself cause it was a jerk thing to say even though I am clearly making a joke.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Don't worry, MBT. I did the same. But I've upvoted this comment, and found a random one of yours to upvote, too

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Sames

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I thought you were wondering what it’s like to be a flute and have a cute girl blowing on you

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GIFs that end too soon.

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She truly tried her best !

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I LOVE him! Might be the first channel I ever subscribed to, on Yt.

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No one can resist the slidewhistle. It is pure comedy.

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Play this at my funeral pyre

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Keep it together, Amanda!

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Here's the entire video! https://youtu.be/EyofqsBQS5I It's all to make a girl smile.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

The best part of this was watching her try to be serious as long as she could.

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And there's the break, barely holding it together... better than Fallon at least

4 years ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 0

I love her barely holding it together when the refrain starts. You can see she knows what's coming and tries to steal herself.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

*steel

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck. Brain fart. I was actually thinking about not writing "steal". My brain took it from there. Sigmund Freud smiles at me from his grave.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hehe, totally been there

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You know who else is better than Fallon?

4 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Craig Ferguson?

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Would it be safe to say that you have.... .... ... Nothing left to Lose?

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Absolutely criminal what they did to Conan.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

She has got some humongous lung power.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Was thinking this the whole time!

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Yeah, a NORMAL sized flute takes around the same amount of air to play as a tuba!

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I was a flautist in high school and my band director wanted me to switch to tuba for that reason. And out low brass sucked.

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Triple ?

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LOVE the double!

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I think we can't tell with so much reverb and then playing different tunes

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GIFs that end too soon.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, that's a lot of reverb on the instrument mic! Very cool use of effects.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Yeah but I want to hear what the flutes actually sound like.

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Risky thumbnail

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I think both sounds pretty fucking dope!

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Double sounds like the opening theme of Xenia

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The piece played is reminiscent of the narnia lullaby

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Hollywood's "ancient Tibetan monk dispensing wisdom" music vs. Hollywood's "tense moment set in the desert at night" music

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Definitely Triple

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Triple is like flying on a dragon... double is more grounded, so riding a horse.

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Difference between dwarves and elves IMO

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

this one time at band camp...

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Honestly, yes! Bring on the weird fluting!!

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Her way of playing the flute always smelled a little fishy to me....

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Flaunt your flautist is what I say

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I say this every day.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What an utterly REDICULOUS instrument! Hahahahaha...

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Is that Willam Dafoe?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well, it’s a deepfake of him

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

https://youtu.be/IwLSrNu1ppI

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Is this Jethro Tull? /s

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That….was something.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Flippin love it!! *insert flight of the conchords clip of the summer of 1353 that I was sadly unable to find on imgur*

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But, oho! Here it is on youtoob https://youtu.be/zEqdINMLAec

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??HELL YES??

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Musical instruments predate any evidence of planned agriculture by like 3000+ years

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For mankind, it began with an accident... https://youtu.be/PSpPgXRb5Cg

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a lot more than that, right? I think I heard of a (bone?) Flute that was ~42k years old, although I'm not sure when agriculture began.

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Lovely, but I'd never want to play anything that had a spit cup.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I was in the elementary school band for a week. The girl next to me cleaned out her flute and complained it was "Sweaty."

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I played baritone sax, and even the small amount of spit that collected was pretty gross.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

spit happens when you play cold brass.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

How else are you supposed to rehydrate after all that hard work?

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Your name is familiar! Pretty sure we've bumped into each other here before.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Laughs in trombone, baritone, sousaphone, and tuba.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Trumpet and its derivatives as well.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Had a classmate in HS pull a SANDWICH out of his trumpet, we have no idea how it got there.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you mean a Honkwich

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was just recently looking at the sub-contrabass sax. Skip to 9:26 in this clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNJQt8e0DA

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Wow

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That is a hooge sax with a sound of a pipe organ

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Add the time stamp to your YouTube links thusly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNJQt8e0DA&t=566s I can never remember the params for >

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

anything other than seconds so I end up converting everything to seconds.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Figured it out. Surprisingly intuitive for a Google product. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swNJQt8e0DA&t=9m26s

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oh yeah, I know you can do that, was just being lazy :)

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It would take me at least at extra minute or two to sort out the URL with a starting time :)

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