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Cabbage flute

Cory Doctorow at 8:25 am Thu, Jan 5, 2012

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This clever fellow has made a flute* out of a cabbage.

* (or possibly an ocarina)

Cabbage slide flute-Lightly Row- (via Tokyomango)

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I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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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