To celebrate Mario Day (Mar10), this is a video of classically trained pianist/starer Lord Vinheteiro performing the Super Mario Bros overworld theme on a baroque harpsichord while dressed as Mozart. Towards the end he also does a little underworld theme, and the starman theme (when Mario gets an invincibility star).
This is a video of lover of unusual instruments Nicolas Bras (previously) constructing and playing a mouth violin based on the k’ni (aka Vietnamese mouth violin) used by the Jarai people of Vietnam. The instrument uses the player’s mouth as a resonator, “which enables the instrument to imitate certain qualities
Because dream it and you can achieve it, this is a video of Australian musician Alan Gogoll performing 10,000 guitar harmonics in 14-minutes and 15-seconds. With 855 seconds in that time, that’s a harmonic every 0.0855 seconds. WOW. Wait — just what the hell is a guitar harmonic anyways? Let
This is a video of very talented musician Ichika Nito playing a superwide 14-string electric guitar. Now that — that is a lot of strings. Maybe not as many as a harp, but *casually strums harp in grand foyer of mansion* this is all a daydream. There’s no question Ichika
This is a video of New Orleans violinist Dominique Hammons performing at a wedding reception and going ham during a rendition of Choppa’s 2002 ‘Choppa Style‘, the unofficial anthem of the New Orleans Saints. Did I have to Google what ham means? I was close, but thankfully my girlfriend knew
Because can you even call yourself a band if you don’t have at least one instrument that looks like a creepy baby doll, these are the $300 BabyBot musical synthesizers created and sold by Moonlight Armada. Available in light theremin (red) and analog synthesizer (purple) editions, both are ‘set up
This is a video of saxophonist and TikTok recording artist Evan Jacobson adding a sax solo to The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 banger ‘Big Poppa’. It works surprisingly well, although I understand why Biggie didn’t include a saxophone solo in the original, and that reason can only be that Kenny G
Because the internet can occasionally produce just what you were looking for provided you don’t know what that thing was and don’t wander down the wrong alley trying to take a shortcut *desperately trying to close relentless boner pill pop-up* this a short video from artist LeopARTnik of two black-capped