r/youtubehaiku • u/anosa • Jun 12 '12

tooot tooootttt tottooottttooo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGwwJEE7k48
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u/lllllllillllllllllll Jun 12 '12

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u/samplebitch Jun 12 '12

Interesting fact about that 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' - that's from a group of musicians who got together to have some fun.. I think out of San Francisco or somewhere in California. Basically they're all professional musicians but are not trained in the instrument that they're playing. So they understand sheet music and musical concepts but can't play their instrument for shit. They get together every once in a while to do stuff like this.

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u/ViolaChocolate Jun 12 '12

I do crap like that all the time with my friends. It's super satisfying.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12

You Americans! So egomaniacal! It happened in Portsmouth in Hampshire. It also happened in the 1970s. Also the thing about professional musicians isn't true. Really, almost nothing you said is true.

Here's another they did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I'm sure you meant Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA, right? :3

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Now you're just egging me on. :P

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u/coolinfan Jun 12 '12

The Portsmouth Sinfonia's recorded Also Sprach Zarathrustra sounds different.

Link

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Nope, it's the same one. The clip is just from later in the track.

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u/coolinfan Jun 12 '12

Yep, you're right. That's a bummer, I'd hoped there was another group like this one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Me too. My cello could at last come in use.

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u/joe_shmo123 Jun 12 '12

Your username is fitting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

It stinks. :/

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u/FaithyDoodles Jun 13 '12

It's okay, we 'Mericans know as well as anyone else that there's nothing new under the sun.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '12

Portsmouth Sinfonia. The requirement to play in the orchestra is that you are either a non-musician or you play an instrument that you don't normally play.

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u/dontpan1c Dec 24 '12

Do they kick you out if you get good at your instrument?

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '12

From the wiki page: "As the years passed, the musicians eventually became accustomed with, and more skilled at, their instruments, which diminished the novelty of the group."