Warning: This is one of those posts with way too many links for one sitting. I started with enough material for three posts, then edited out all but the most awesome links. You may want to bookmark this so you can come back later to enjoy what you don't have time for now.

After spending more than half my life playing music on the radio, plus ten years married to another disc jockey followed by ten years married to a professional musician, you could say I know a little about music. Once I took a test and found I have an excellent “ear” for music. That means I can hear exactly how badly I sing!

When I was four or five years old, my father brought home a contraption he called a “phonograph”. He also had to buy a “record” to play on it, which was entitled Spike Jones Greatest Hits. Thus began my lifetime of love for music. Here’s the Spike Jones classic Cocktails for Two.


Have you heard of the all-dwarf Kiss tribute band Mini Kiss? They rock! Their rivals are a band called Tiny Kiss.

Play tubular bells here. The instrument, not the song.

If you like Samorost, you’ll also enjoy The Polyphonic Spree-The Quest for the Rest. The little speaker bar at the bottom controls not the volume, but the song playing.

Your Theme Song is Beautiful Day by U2

"Sky falls, you feel like It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away" You see the beauty in life, especially in ordinary everyday moments. And if you're feeling down, even that seems a little beautiful too.

If you enjoyed Desktop Blues from a few weeks ago, you’ll also enjoy the Hip Hop Machine.

Extreme Cello Playing is a “sport” involving playing the cello in odd places. Really. Right now they are working on playing on all the cathedral roofs in England. (via Arbroath)

I am all for mixing musical genres, in fact Dred Zeppelin is one of my favorites. But The Yodelin Rapper is just as far out as it gets!

If you think you can’t sing, this might make you feel better about it. But this one’s kinda cute. (via Arbroath)

You are going to enjoy the animated music video Animusic Pipe Dream. When you are ready for more, try Animusic Starship Groove.

Its not what you’d call lip syching, but what WOULD you call it? (via Arbroath)

He sang Stairway to Heaven backwards phonetically, then reversed the tape. Watch this!

The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britian plays Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Play the piano right here on your keyboard! Well, I didn’t say you’d play well, did I?

Whoever thought they’d make a guitar pick into a high-tech gadeget? The Light Pick.

THE ACCORDIAN

A drummer, sick of all the drummer jokes, decides to change his instrument. After some thought, he decides on the accordion. So he goes to the music store and says to the owner, "I'd like to look at the accordions, please."

The owner gestures to a shelf in the corner and says "All our accordions are over there."

After browsing, the drummer says, "I think I'd like the big red one in the corner."

The store owner looks at him and says, "You're a drummer, aren't you?"

The drummer, crestfallen, says, "How did you know?"

The store owner says, "That `big red accordion' is the radiator."

INSTRUMENTS OF A DIFFERENT SORT

Gas Tank Orchestra plays instruments made out of... gas tanks.

Ham violin.

How to play the spoons.

A guitar made from an oilcan. Perfect for the Tin Man!

Jon Rose plays a fence. Yes, a barbed-wire fence as a musical instument. See the videos! (via Neatorama)

You’ve heard of cigar box banjos... now here’s a hubcap banjo!

The man with the musical suit. He can dance, too! (via Arbroath) Here’s his website.

The TRATTIs are screaming devices for children. they are musical instruments for playing together. TRATTIs generate noise and sound and music (depending on your ear) according to what the kid is looking at. Just what you always wanted!

Game controllers as musical instruments.

TUBA OR NOT TUBA

What's the range of a tuba?
Twenty yards if you've got a good arm!
How many tuba players does it take to change a light bulb?
Three! One to hold the bulb and two to drink 'till the room spins.
What's a tuba for?
1 1/2" by 3 1/2" unless you request "full cut."
How do you fix a broken tuba?
With a tuba glue.
These two tuba players walk past a bar...
Well, it could happen!

As I was preparing this entry, my friend Ed Bremson posted a song he wrote and recorded. Check it out!

Previously on Miss Cellania: Music Notes

Thought for today: There's nothing I like better than the sound of a banjo, unless of course it's the sound of a chicken caught in a vacuum cleaner.

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