Comments on: Cabbage flute

By: anton wassiljew

anton wassiljew — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:37:00 +0000

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

By: guanto

guanto — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:30:00 +0000

Right, that’s pretty much what he says in the video (minus the coleslaw part).

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:13:00 +0000

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…

By: citizen

citizen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:10:00 +0000

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.

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Imagine “Nola” played entirely with comestibles.

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:14:00 +0000

That’s only impressive if you can play it all by yourself.

By: guanto

guanto — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:59:00 +0000

He says it’s a “stick” though, which I take to mean it’s solid. Who knows though…

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000

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

By: Elisabeth Broe

Elisabeth Broe — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:17:00 +0000

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.

By: Elisabeth Broe

Elisabeth Broe — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:12:00 +0000

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.

By: Elisabeth Broe

Elisabeth Broe — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:08:00 +0000

No he didn’t, he just shoved a flutey thing through a hole in the cabbage. Or am I missing something here?

By: bo1n6bo1n6

bo1n6bo1n6 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:05:00 +0000

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

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000

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

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Too many words I don’t know; and that’s in reference to your comment, not the Japanese chap.

By: Marktech

Marktech — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:02:00 +0000

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

By: jahxman

jahxman — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:00 +0000

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.

By: zachstronaut

zachstronaut — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:48:00 +0000

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

By: Matthew Wong

Matthew Wong — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:47:00 +0000

Slide whistle meets flute … meets cabbage.
He might be able to get a deeper pitch from it if he hallowed it out.

By: Brad H.

Brad H. — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:45:00 +0000

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

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:43:00 +0000

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

By: splashu

splashu — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:43:00 +0000

I always love his deadpan translated video descriptions:

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

Indeed.

By: Mark Malone

Mark Malone — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:42:00 +0000

I have a flute made out of skin.

By: irksome

irksome — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:38:00 +0000

“Listen to this cabbage flute. Just listen to it.”

By: guanto

guanto — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

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

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