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I clicked on this thread expecting something about alcohol. Quite interesting, though.

What a great musician! I love how he was fingering the pitches on the bottle. Thank you for posting!

That is inspirational!
I saw some great musicians last year in Puerto Vallarta. A couple of them were playing acoustic string basses (on the beach) with some kind of red white and blue striped strings. One was playing a sousaphone held together with hose clamps. The sousaphone player was one of the better players I have heard anywhere.

Funny this should come up tonight: earlier this evening I heard an interview on the radio with Manny Laureano, principal trumpet of the Minnesota Symphony. He mentioned Arnold Jacobs' emphasis on buzzing and musicality, and that a trumpet was just "an expensive amplifier for the 'real instrument'". Yeah, I guess so!

http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/playlist.php

Dave

I have to agree with Joe. I think he IS buzzing.

I can only get 360 resolution from the video so its really not all that clear. If you look at :37 or just a bit before as he puts it back up to play, his mouth really looks like its in position to buzz as opposed to sing. If he was going to put the end of the bottle into his mouth it seems like he'd have to have his mouth open more. Anyway, it sounds like buzzing to me. I guess we'll never really know though.

Pete

LJV wrote:There is actually a sort of tradition of improvised "brass" instrument in Mexico. There are tons of videos on YouTube...

A real love of playing and music comes out in many of them. Pretty cool, if you ask me.



Oh, yeah, in the OP's video, I think he's buzzing, not singing...

Please don't mock this band. It isn't entirely without fans!

Bloke, how much would you charge to cut my coke bottle to C and add a fifth valve? (I'll also need the other four...)

I HEAR a "buzz"...but this isn't worth discussing, as far as I'm concerned.

True...only THE most erudite and intellectual topics are worthy of TubeNet.

bloke wrote:

Frank Byrne wrote:True...only THE most erudite and intellectual topics are worthy of TubeNet.

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This is what's really going on:
http://youtu.be/Prjbz4eD4BY

Cool! I remember seeing Marty Erickson play an Eb scale (2nd to 4th partials on an Eb tuba) with NO valves. I can bend the pitch about a 3rd on some notes but nothing close to that. One fun trick, though, is to glissando from the 2nd partial down to the open pedal, or at least from the open false tone to the pedal.