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[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 56 points 3 months ago

Amateurs; in music we've been alerady using cannons since 1880: Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

While it does not invoke cannons (which will be outside whenever this piece is being performed), there is a piece where a percussionist whacks a piece of wood with a super-sized mallet. Imagine a barrel on a stick...

[-] far_university1990@feddit.de 10 points 3 months ago

Slipknot has a clown beating metal barrel with baseball bat.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Life goals.

Mahler. Everything insane is typically Mahler. I think that particular symphony also has a bag full of sticks that is dropped.

[-] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago

mahler's instrumentation is consistently massive but usually has normal instruments. i think only the sixth is particularly strange with the hammer, and the next weirdest symphony might be the seventh with its mandolin, guitar, cowbells, etc. his fourth could also be considered weird since it's scored for an unusually small orchestra, especially for a mahler symphony. pretty sure he never used a bag of sticks, but yeah mahler can still be crazy. only really rivaled by strauss imo. strauss's Alpine Symphony is probably the most insane thing i've ever seen performed, for me beating mahler 2 and 3 (though i still like them more overall)

Fair enough. I should have said 'everything insane that I remember is Mahler.' I would swear I remember a bag of sticks in something I was performing in though.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 3 months ago

In America, guns are considered an instrument.

[-] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 3 months ago

And anywhere that wants an indoor performance of the 1812 Overture.

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

Oh no, the more dramatic orchestras will use cannon indoors too. I was at a rather excellent concert some years ago, thoroughly enjoying the music and very much 'in the moment' as you might say, when I discovered this fact. I was seated up in the gods, and one of the cannons was, it turns out, on a gallery almost directly above me. They pretty much had to scrape me off the ceiling when that thing went off, and I don't think my heart rate came down until I got a stiff drink in the intermission.

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Depends on where in America, there are parts of the deep Midwest where Squidward was a dirty liar

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I hope he lobbied to perform the 1812 Overture during graduation.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Dude in the front is questioning his life

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

"Why did I choose French Horn when I could've picked gun..."

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

hearing protection shmearing protection, I'll just cover my ears!

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 5 points 3 months ago

Wouldn’t this make everyone in the room go deaf?

[-] boeman@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago
[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When the classic MIDI track you want to perform uses instrument #128

Still, easier than coordinating the helicopter to fly over at the right time.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

The 1911 Overture.

this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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