Daniel Hersh Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 From the website of a friend of mine, the songwriter and English concertina player Carol Denney: http://www.caroldenney.com/concerti.htm . Here's Carol playing and singing one of her songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6dmtEjc51Q . 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Interesting song writing . Does anyone have a 'musical joke' ? One where the actual music is played to create laughter , either at the music or the performer . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJGray Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 You may want to look into the work of “P. D. Q. Bach”. 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim2010 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 3 hours ago, Geoff Wooff said: Interesting song writing . Does anyone have a 'musical joke' ? One where the actual music is played to create laughter , either at the music or the performer . Does this count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-diqR41yo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcoover Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Makes me thirsty - За твоё здоровье! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I have a version of the hens' march to the midden. This usually causes amusement played live but might fall a bit flat with just the sound file. The chickens seems to get a bit muddled near the end. Sorry about that. Hen's march - Copy.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 18 hours ago, Jim2010 said: Does this count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-diqR41yo Funny, but not enough to get me to take up monster accordion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Quote Does anyone have a 'musical joke' ? One where the actual music is played to create laughter , either at the music or the performer . Most 'musical' jokes seem to depend heavily on murdering or taking out of context Very Wellknown Tunes or playing out of time or out of tune. It's a tricky genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_holden Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Bill Bailey does quite a bit of musical comedy in his stand up routines: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim2010 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeqaDSjy98 31 minutes ago, Peter Laban said: Most 'musical' jokes seem to depend heavily on murdering or taking out of context Very Wellknown Tunes or playing out of time or out of tune. It's a tricky genre. Such as this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeqaDSjy98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Chickens, banjo and (Hayden) concertina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgfBCli0Bik 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 3 hours ago, Jim2010 said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeqaDSjy98 Such as this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeqaDSjy98 Indeed yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim2010 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) On 7/3/2021 at 8:41 AM, Geoff Wooff said: Interesting song writing . Does anyone have a 'musical joke' ? One where the actual music is played to create laughter , either at the music or the performer . To answer Geoff's question from the standpoint of do any of us have a musical joke [ourselves, rather than knowing about one on youtube], here is one that was used by a musical group I performed with many years ago. While you are playing one piece, you slip into another piece, ideally one that is more lighthearted than the first. Depending on one's personality (you have to be willing to look foolish), you can act as if you are just absent minded, or that the instrument has mind of its own, the sheet music is wrong, or something else that is not your fault. Since most popular music begins and ends on the tonic cord, you can switch from song to song endlessly. Switching from a somewhat serious song to a Christmas carol is a good way to start. You can then catch yourself and go back to the serious one, and soon enough drift off into a different Christmas carol. Victor Borge is a good role model for this sort of thing. Edited July 4, 2021 by Jim2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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