Over on Friko's Fridge Soup is a post showing two people playing one guitar at the same time. In amongst the comments, there was talk of a double bass duet, and this sparked my magination.
What other instruments could be used in this novel way? Imagine, a person who'd always wanted to play a tuba, but didn't have enough puff, could team up with a real windbag of a soul who could blow hot air for England, let alone a Tuba. If you thought about it, you could probably nominate somebody for the job right now.
And how about a trombone? A person with the urge to play, but with arms too short to stretch out as far as needed, would only have to find their own Mr Tickle, as per Roger Hargreaves, and there'd be no stopping them.
Even when you descend to the smaller instruments like a triangle or a tambourine, people with missing left hands could team up with people whose right hands were absent, and once again, you
would have a perfect duet scenario.
Perhaps I should search for a ventriloquist partner; that way I might be able to stop talking through the back of my neck...
Ha, smashing and crashing on the drums would be fun with a partner.
ReplyDeleteTwo on a harmonica at the same time...could lead to something!
ReplyDeleteI have seen four people, each bowing the other's violin. Actually, there was a fifth person, just bowing the fourth fiddle but not holding his own.
ReplyDeleteReminds me off a film I saw recently - Inside Moves - wherein a group of disabled people meet regularly at a bar. Amongst them there is a blind man who wheels the crippled man around in his wheelchair - a perfect duet, very sweet and very funny.
ReplyDeleteBagpipes of course! One doing all the huffing and puffing whilst the other does all the squeezing. In fact you could have three people with the third chap/lady twiddling the pipe thingy!
ReplyDeleteAh Jinksy, you slay me, you do.
ReplyDeleteThinks! That is a chicken and egg question! I KNOW I'm completely mad and then you got me thinking! Xxx
ReplyDeleteQ - that way madness certainly lies! Or should that be lays, in view of egg reference? x
ReplyDeleteAs a musician Jinksy, this really interests me. My son plays the double bass - I shall have to ask him what he thinks to a double bass duet. I have tried playing piano music backwards - that is absolutely impossible. As to two playing the same instrument I wonder if it might work with a harp?
ReplyDeleteWeaver - the second harpist might need 'strordinary long arms, to encompass the first player as well as the harp! :)
ReplyDeleteI have an idea; two people playing one piano. We could call it... quatre mains ;-)
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen this though? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxaZzCGrmCg
It is a very famous pianist (in the Netherlands at least) who plays the piano in a very different way. Not normally he does, but this was to collect money for Haiti. He plays songs requested by the audience. Clever. But weird and very uncomfortable.
I am still chuckling from your comments, glad you have so much time for deep thinking my friend........LOL.......:-) Hugs
ReplyDeleteI cherish that idea of the tamborine or triangle duos, what a delightful team that would make!
ReplyDeleteDouble up cello playing is a better visual
ReplyDeletescenario.Carrying excessive weight could present a problem here.More suitable for thin cellists.
Reminds me of when I used to play the trombone and couldn't reach far enough for slide position six. Or that time I played my Granddad's organ in the basement and had to sit on my dad's lap so he could pump the step-pedal thingies with his legs while i played.
ReplyDeleteNow listen to me CJ! Two people, one doing the huffing and puffing while the other does the squeezing are NOT playing the bagpipes. But you are not yet old enough to be told what they ARE doing. O.K?
ReplyDeleteOne should not "blow one's own tuba" so to speak. But HERE is the only poem I ever came across about tuba playing
ReplyDeleteDoctor FTSE - I hope you were listenig to Danny Kaye singing Tubby The Tuba when you wrote it?
ReplyDeleteHa! Well, of course, it's often done on the piano, but the mind boggles when it comes to some other instruments. Can you imagine the tangle you'd get into trying to share a French horn, for instance? LOL!
ReplyDeleteI love the way your mind works. Scary. I like that. :-P
ReplyDeleteThis post reminds me of a Perfect Gift List that a like-minded friend and I made up. Other people thought it was cruel; we laughed ourselves silly every time we thought of an addition. Maybe I'll add it to Fridge Soup...I'll have to give that some thought. Don't want to offend, you know...
how about a bag pipe or didgeridoo?
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