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guanto

Last sentence in the video: “My ears hurt.”

Also, he calls it a “flute,” and who am I to question him? ;-)
irksome

“Listen to this cabbage flute. Just listen to it.”
http://twitter.com/malonicus Mark Malone

I have a flute made out of skin.
- RJ
  
  That’s only impressive if you can play it all by yourself.
voiceinthedistance

Better tone than the skin flute, although he holds his mouth the same way.
splashu

I always love his deadpan translated video descriptions:

“I made musical instruments from the cabbage.
A very high sound is heard.”

Indeed.
Brad H.

If that was napa cabbage, the Koreans would go apeshit.
Matthew Wong

Slide whistle meets flute … meets cabbage.
He might be able to get a deeper pitch from it if he hallowed it out.
- Elisabeth Broe
  
  No, he’s not getting a pitch out of the cabbage, he’s getting it out of the wooden flute thing that he’s shoved through it.
  - citizen
    
    Oh, ye of little faith.
    This is not the man’s first musical vegetable. He has 31(!) videos featuring homemade vegetable instruments on YouTube. 28 if you’re a stickler for rules and refuse to classify (ostrich-)eggs and mushrooms as vegetables.
http://www.zachstronaut.com/ zachstronaut

Golden opportunity missed to do the classic roooOOOOOOooooWHOOP slide whistle cartoon sound effect with a cabbage.
jahxman

I’m gonna say slide flute, as it is played transverse and he is forming an embouchere. Not an ocarina, as there is no fipple.
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  Too many words I don’t know; and that’s in reference to your comment, not the Japanese chap.
- Elisabeth Broe
  
  Or MAYBE it’s a panpipe (which he has shoved through a hole in the cabbage), because he’s blowing transverely across the TOP, not the side like a flute. Now I’m picturing one of those native Andes bands like you see in San Francisco, on the subway in NY, and- strangely- in Istanbul dressed up like plains Indians, and their panpipes are all shoved through various produce items.
Marktech

I love the way that cabbage just appears. Nae cabbage… cabbage.
GawainLavers

I’m just grateful it isn’t a goddamn ukulele.
bo1n6bo1n6

let me pack up my apple pipe and give that another listen…
Elisabeth Broe

No he didn’t, he just shoved a flutey thing through a hole in the cabbage. Or am I missing something here?
- guanto
  
  He says it’s a “stick” though, which I take to mean it’s solid. Who knows though…
  - Culturedropout
    
    Well, I assume there’s a hollow cut through the core of the cabbage and he’s using the stick to control the depth of the cavity he’s blowing over. That being said, I really hope they didn’t have coleslaw later…
    - guanto
      
      Right, that’s pretty much what he says in the video (minus the coleslaw part).
Red Pill Junkie

Dude’s expressions were more entertaining than his actual musical antics.
RJ

Imagine “Nola” played entirely with comestibles.
anton wassiljew

there is a great tradition in vienna – the vienna vegetable orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dARRp3fZtvY

Cabbage flute

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