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Yep. Good.
Oh, wait, here we go. Let's let's go back to the old school.
So Leila, what's our topic this evening?
Well, musical instruments
odd musical instruments, not your run of the mill not like a
guitar.
I just got ready to just go. Oh, my goodness, I do have some
weird instruments.
Yeah, we're so we got this suggestion from Team Omaha. Got
an email him a couple of suggestions. And we thought this
one would be super fun. The other ones for later dates. So
interesting. Instruments is what we're gonna be talking about on
this episode. I have three, we have three gonna be playing for
you. She kind of collects, oh, whatever happened here? The
thumb harp that you have? I have it.
Oh my gosh, I think I can
go look, I can hold down the fort while you go grab it. Yeah.
So don't drop that, because it'll be loud. Okay, so we like
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on with the News for the week. Okay, you ready? Yeah. Did you
not get a new story? I did. Okay. All right. The
plant did anyone.
Go for it?
And now, the good news segment with me, and I think
I think he's come here.
A plant dating pop up has appeared in London to help Brits
find their perfect planner. The only plants planners that a
partner I guess, the only plants club matchmaking service has
been set up to marry the public with the with the perfect house
plan to suit their lifestyle and personality. It gives them the
opportunity to know what house plan love interests before
getting too involved in taking one home. Taking place with a
lucky firm, Lucky club, Mayfair, the event was created after a
study found 78% of adult take their time researching their
options before committing to a new relationship, or the House
plan. This is a very cool concept to me. I like it a lot.
Yeah, your nana grows lots of interesting plants. No, no, not
really. I mean, plants, their plants. She has vine that she
has been growing is some kind of some kind of vine anyway, it
just keeps growing and growing and growing. She keeps cutting
pieces off and giving them to people as this really pretty
thing and she wraps it around like little poles and like it's
tomato. No, it's it doesn't it doesn't have any fruit. But if
we took all of the pieces that she's cut off, ever, it would
probably be like 500 feet long. Well because she can stretch it
from her front window all the way out into her backyard. And
that's an she trims it quite regularly. So yeah, it's neat. I
can't grow I'm bad at growing plants I forget about them or
overwater. Okay
them I'm okay, so Oh back back
to the news he died. Speaking of plants, being of plants, the UK
is buzzing over B bus stops. I Love Bees and an effort to help
out important insects like bees and butterflies bus stops across
the UK and Europe are getting living roofs small gardens on
busstop shelter roofs are being planted with flowers chosen to
help support struggling insects called B bus stops or was
was
I gotta get like the do rimshot thing going
on. Wait Do you Do you have it you had it like when you first
got the road? Yeah,
the road it has it on there. But once you remove it you can't get
it back now
and it's not saying it's not saying
but yeah, they they basically just put the the grass and
flowers on top of bus stops and then you know the bees get up
there and get the pollen and do the whole bee thing and little
butterflies flying around. It's really neat. Cool. I like the
idea. I really don't like what don't you like
wasps? Yes. Well, whilst we're okay. Yellow Jackets. Yeah,
paper loss.
However, have I told the story on here about getting stung? No,
we're like, I think you have. It's been on. Sorry. Oh, it's
been a long time to have. So I was turning the propane on the
grill on and when I reached underneath the to turn the
little handle, you know, to turn the camera on. I got stung by
five yellow jackets at the same time. It hurts so bad and I had
no idea if I was allergic. So I had to go run in and like I
wrapped a piece of string or rope or something around my hand
to keep it from in case I was allergic. I didn't want it like
Yeah, yeah, so it was bad. It hurt it hurt real bad. Luckily,
I'm not allergic. So
where I was going with the story is we have a whole bunch around
her school. And while we're outside, okay, so our school, we
have three buildings, we have the office building, which has
all the office stuff has the office and the nurse and the
counselor and all that stuff. And then we had the school
building, which is the grades, obviously. Then we have the
other building, which is the gym, the locker room and the
cafeteria. And when we're coming out from the cafeteria to go
back to our main hall, there's like wasps everywhere. And they
follow us. And they have chosen me as the person to follow
because I'm very brightly colored. You do your flower.
Hello.
You do wear bright colors in school? Yes, I do. So anyways,
anyways,
anyway. Boys was your instruments?
Well, before we do that, I didn't finish the value for
value segment. You didn't doesn't have to be. It doesn't
have to be money is what I was gonna sell. You started talking
about donations for money, and it helps us with things. But it
can be like our suggestion we got for the topic. We are always
looking for topics every day. Yes. And that's fantastic. When
we get topics. Thank you so much team Omaha. We've also gotten,
we have we have a shirt store, I just have to go finish setting
up the store on Threadless. It's ready to go. I just have to go
in and make sure that I've got the payments set up right and
all that. And I had been working on me this pot all week, so I
didn't get around to it. But yeah, that should be up. I'll be
posting it on our socials. And any ideas for shirts, something
from the show that was memorable for you? Just send it along and
we'll get we'll get an artist on it. In time, talent or treasure,
anything you want to send us we would love it. We love
engagement with our listeners. Yep. You're our producers also.
So we appreciate it. I know I do so on with odd instruments when
I started looking up odd instruments. A lot of the
YouTube videos were things that we have at the house. Yeah,
because I'm an instrument. Kind of kind of guy. So I have like
four here. So which one you want me to play for us?
Why don't we start with the egg? The egg this one? Yes.
Okay, so this is the first thing that comes up on Amazon if you
search up weird instruments or odd instruments. This is the
atomic tone. I'm sure you've probably heard of it. It sounds
sounds odd. Which I guess is what we're going for. But I'm
gonna step back
a little bit. Yeah, it's kinda loud.
So, okay, I'm gonna have you back here. So you can still hear
me kinda.
Did you see what it's called? Yes. It's
called an automaton. Okay, go
ahead, play it.
So we got I can't play anything on it because they don't really
get a little closer. So what this thing is look looks like is
a musical note. With a real long stem. I don't know what the stem
is called on a musical note. And the the bottom of it has like a
little face on it.
Yeah, usually they have like two little eyes. And the part that
you squeeze has a little mouth. But this one's a good one. So it
has a face on it.
Yeah, it looks like it's singing. When you squeeze it,
the mouth opens. And that's when it actuates the synthesizer
at a Barnes and Noble. Yep. So it's kind of a weird place to
find a musical instrument.
She hasn't practiced with it at all. She just plays with it. I
just played. I haven't seen people play them though. Yeah,
I have to there's a cover artists on artists, I guess.
Like you too.
So that's an automaton Those are fun. They're pretty cheap too.
So go ahead with the next one. That's actually mine.
This is actually his. It came up when I was searching for one of
the other ones. But this is the stylophone. So if a brown is on,
let me turn it down a bit. I don't want to blow your ears
out. All right, let me so if
you can turn it up, there's a volume on it. Yeah. And you can
change. You can kick it up or down an octave. Yeah.
What this one is, is a small little box that looks like it's
from what the 60s maybe 70s as an amp. Right. It looks like a
guitar amp with a little keyboard but all the keys are
square and metal and has a stylus attached to it.
And we're gonna make this weird noise
touch the tip of the stylus which is metal, and it's got a
wire, it creates the synthetic tones. And it's fun to play
with. And some people can really jam on him. And one of the cool
things about it is has headphones out or line out.
Yeah, so you can actually hook it up to, you know, to record it
and or listen on your headphones. So you're not
annoying the whole family. Yeah, as I was doing when I first got
it.
Don't worry. Next,
hold on just a second. I've got a link. I don't know what this
this is gonna be. Okay, here we go. This is the
this is the automaton? jamman
Yeah, yes.
I can make it, I can do that. I can make it go
oh my gosh, it's like you're in the video. I gotta grab a link
to that. Put in the
show notes. So amazing. I'm amazing. All right. Next,
I got a link for that in the show notes now. Thank you for
that. Servo
Thank you. So. So this guy, this guy's a little interesting. So
it's like a piano. It's like a keyboard. It's about maybe a
foot, foot and a half long. Give or take. But it's it's pink.
Because I chose the pink option. It has a tube. And it has a
mouthpiece on the tube. You see where I'm going with this. So
you have to you have to blow into it to make it noise. So
here it is without blowing into it. Very tasty. And here it is
actually playing it
I don't know how to play piano
used to play a song or what did you What did you just play on
that I don't remember, I used to play fallen down. So it's like,
it's like a keyboard, like a keyboard. But an accordion. Like
without having to move it back and forth you blow into it. And
the wind from your from your face goes in and you know hits
the reeds. And then one of the very interesting key or pressing
you know makes
fun fact when I first got this, I press down this little button
back here which is the spit outtake. And I haven't used it
before, so I pressed it down too hard. So I broke it. So I had to
superglue it back together before even using it.
Did you say this was called the melodica? Yes. Oh you didn't. I
didn't. So she got that when she went when she wanted one. I was
looking for the cheapest one we could get right I was like, it
was like 16 but it was like 16 or 18 bucks. And then I started
looking into it. And the more expensive ones. They only go up
to like 2000 $3,000 for like the most expensive like sought after
or whatever. While we watched a video of somebody who has just
gone all in on melodica he has just gone brand his whole is his
whole brand has given up on everything else. He has all
melodica all the time. And he did a comparison between the $20
one the exact one Leila has accepted different color. Yeah,
it was like versus the $3,000 one and he played them without
showing on the screen which one he was playing and you could
literally not tell the difference.
So mother is here. She wants to play something.
Oh, she can she can she's got a little town so
you might as well be beta. Like we got here. She did. She said
words. Yeah, she that's the word. That's what the third time
she's ever been heard on the stream. Because
I can play her and so it's just I forgot which note to start on.
So
yeah, that video I played of the atomic tone is vert. On that'll
be in the show notes. So he's got Yeah, we've got the melodica
the automaton play that little thumb harp even though it's out
of tune, so this this thing's cool. I think you paid like
eight bucks for it or something. Oh yeah, it was just like a
little a little knick knack a little knick knack?
It's you can fit in your hand easily. I think it's called the
kalimba. But it's a smaller version of the caliber.
Play it real quick so we got it okay. up it's hers is just a
it's just a little acrylic disc like a puck. Yeah, with little,
little metal pieces sticking off of it and you just play it and
it's got different little tones. Yeah,
I used to be able to play really good. I got
into it play really well. Yeah and the left. I think that's it.
That's the four that we have. Yeah. Okay. And Leila has lots
of instruments. She's got a ukulele. She's got a
guitar got a bass.
And you've got that? Well, I've got I've gotten electric guitars
that I've never really touched. It's the I bought the electric
guitar for Dummies kit. And it came with a guitar and an amp.
So they're not super high quality. I was like, I'm going
to spend 80 bucks on everything. The book, the case, the guitar,
the amp, the cable. 80 bucks, because I'm probably not going
to get super into this. So I bought it. And I was worried. I
was right. There we go. So we've got we've got another couple
instruments I wanted to talk about. This one goes back to our
previous episode. It is the great Stalag pipe organ.
Ooh, this sounds interesting.
So there is a cave, a cavern that we did not talk about last
week in Virginia, it's an the Luray Caverns in Virginia. And
they have created an Oregon inside of the cavern. And when
you play the Oregon it actually sins there's it's a custom
console. And it taps Stalag pipe as the lag pipes stalactites.
And they ring with you know with a tone. Sorry about that. Oh, we
got one of our neighbors.
You could definitely hear that.
And it taps the tone or taps the stalactites and plays a tone. So
somebody has recorded one of one of my favorites. It's a classic
song, Moonlight Sonata playing the the cabourn So here we go.
Oh, this instrument is covers 3.5 acres. So it's got the
Guinness World Record of world's largest instrument. So here we
go
hope that's coming through okay. For a little bit
sounds spooky,
right? And the vibrations you know resonate through the whole
cavern? Because it's they're so spread out because they had to
find stalactites with the right tone. So they were like climbing
up on ladders and just tapping them with a little hammer and
oh, that's a B flat.
Charlie Puth on the other end. Oh, my gosh, I do not like
Charlie Puth anyways,
anyways, that has been around since let's see, the 1800s
we got hold on I gotta find the name for this.
Okay so while you're doing that, somebody has the a tub tunes
trumpet. I'm going to click it and then turn the volume down
because I don't know how long it's gonna be
its looks like a little toy trumpet. Tub tunes, I guess is a
toy. Toy brand. Oh, wow. Okay, what do you got?
Okay, okay, so it was just a flute, but it's made out of
bones. Oh, wait, I have a recorder.
Recorder is not a pod though. Everybody's got to record if you
went to public school, you've got to record it. I'm getting my
recorder or you're getting a record.
I'm gonna go get my recorder.
Recorder here. Why are you You're gonna go get your
recorder
to play my record.
Okay, well while you're playing your recorder I'm going to talk
about, I'm going to talk about cool dad a glass armonica. Okay,
so what a glass armonica is, it could also be called a glass
harmonica, but it is a series of glass bowls on a on a rod, and
they spin at a constant rate. And you know how like, you'll
put your finger on top of a glass or crystal goblet, and
it'll make a tone. Well, this spins the bowls, and they're all
different sizes and thicknesses, and they're tuned and it lets
you play. Let you play music. So you've got your recorder. Now,
come Come listen to this instrument made out of glass
bowls.
Okay, I'm gonna stand back here too, when I play it because it's
really
well you can you not control the volume at all. Okay, so here's
the glass glass harmonica.
Oh, I've seen these before
so we've got him just standing there. And you just gotta like
just touch the rim of the bowl was and he's got a little bowl
of water. And as it spins it just you know you can make make
the noises with it. Now, the last mauvais Cheerio. Benjamin
Franklin Oh. recorders are one volume. Benjamin Franklin servos
and Chet invented a radically new arrangement for the glasses
in 1761. After seeing the Waterfield wineglass was played
by Edward de Laval, at Cambridge in England. Franklin went to a
glass blower and his name was Charles James, to build one. So
he built a glass armonica. And he was very excited about it,
because he's like, you don't ever have to tune it. Like once
you've made the thing. And you've got it tuned. You're
done. You never have to tune the thing. Yeah, great. The glass
stays in the same shape the same, you know, all that so and
Franklin's it was 37 bowls mounted horizontally on an iron
spindle. The whole spindle turned by means of a foot pedal,
kind of like a sewing machine. It's kind of what it looks like.
It looks like an old timey sewing machine. But it sounds
really neat. I liked the way it sounds. I've always liked when
people would play glass like play bottles and you know all
that says neat.
That's always super cool to me. Okay, so
if you're gonna play the recorder you need to get up
Yeah, take your headphones off. Oh, that worked just
disconnected from the cable that'll work all right, here we
go. We're gonna play the recorder
The only thing I know All right, here we go I get a little lamb
so proud, so proud. You know what I mean? Leila Leila is
infinitely more musical than I am. I'm not a musical person. I
like to. I like to sing badly I can, I can get a pretty good
score on medium if we're playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero. I'm a
singing wizard. Then i play play played on medium difficulty.
I'll get like 85 or 90 on a lot of songs. So that's my, the
extent of my musical talent. Now I will hop into like FL Studio.
And, you know, just take take other people's beats and stuff
and mash them all together and do stuff sometimes, but it never
turns out really good.
Yeah. So that was my musical talent that
oh, oh, on the recording. Okay. I was like you play the ukulele.
You're really good. Oh, you're actually really good at ukulele.
Does, you know play sneakily, they've actually practiced and
whatnot. So let's get karma. Yeah, even though that's karma
for different Leila because the name has been registered by
somebody else in the chat room. Uh, somebody stole it. But yeah,
it's first come first serve. So did you have any more fun
instruments? Nope. That was all you had. I'm just a flute made
out of a bone. Yeah. What was the other? Oh, that was you said
that you went and looked up regular instruments. Because I
didn't have boring instruments. It's gotta be something
interesting. Ocarina another one. I saw an owl. I have to
find it. I'll probably I'll put it in the show notes. There is a
it's kind of like an Oregon but they play it with fire. But I
feel like we've talked about it in a previous episode.
Have you seen people? Music with pens?
Yeah, I've actually talking about like when they're writing
the noises that it makes like ASMR music. Yeah, yes. Yeah,
I've heard different music. Like they did the Star Wars. Imperial
March. By writing words. It was really neat. I'm going to turn
Bluetooth down a little bit because sometimes it'll come out
really loud. Yeah, I get it. And I hate when we click on a
YouTube video and there's Hey, YouTube. Yeah, somebody's
yelling at you.
Do you use do to just want to hear how to birthday with a pin?
So I'm trying to turn the Bluetooth down for you. We can
hear this. Oh, here we go. Okay. I started over.
Okay, well.
So I was kind of happy birthday. Yeah, I don't know how well
that's gonna come out on the recording. But basically, just
whether they're going, you know, left, right diagonal makes
different, different tones. And you can play very simple
versions of songs. With scratching noises
Hey, dad. Is mayonnaise an instrument
is Manny's an instrument. We could ask Nick the rat.
SpongeBob reference. Oh. Does he say it?
Yeah, it's a hole. It's a hole inside joke. Nick the rat. Don't
worry about it. All right, folks. I think that's gonna do
it for this episode. If you know of any cool instruments and want
to let us know or like I said, if you've got if you got topic
ideas, we've got about four right now, but we're gonna go
through that real quick. So everybody have a fantastic
weekend. Do we have anything else?
Do you want to hear me play ukulele?
I did. I will do it on live stream after okay. So yeah, next
week. Listen to the live stream. Maybe you get a little concert
after. I got a fact from one of the voice actors from my latest
episode of MUSE pod. But she did not have a source for it. So she
said she'll get the source to me. And then we'll talk about
it. Yeah, so I got one coming in. Okay, folks, that will be it
for this recorded episode. If you're listening live, you'd get
some more. Everybody have a fantastic weekend? By
Kyle here tonight. Yeah.
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