Obscure facts ya know!

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Ask somebody to guess who played lead guitar on "Eleanor Rigby" and you'll get anything but the correct answer.

You might have to cue it up to believe it, but the Beatles didn't play a single note (on guitar or any other instrument) on that famous tune. They brought in the violin section of an orchestra to do it. Lennon wanted to capture the sound of the bows being pulled across the strings, and put the microphones right down to the violins. As soon as he turned his back, all the musicians scooted their chairs back away from those microphones.

C1 [64 cycles] is its bottom note. but there is one [made by Paetzold] in the key of FF [almost as low as the low E string on a string bass] that can go a half-octave lower than it, and it is folded upon itself much like a contrabassoon.

the picture does not do justice to the height of this thing, it is at least as tall as the other subcontrabass C recorder, but folded upon itself.

A couple in Michigan had three children born on 8/8/08, 9/9/09, and 10/10/10. The birth dates were definitely coincidental, because one of the pregnancies was a surprise, and two of the babies were born prematurely.

A misplaced comma in an official document once deprived the US of more then 1 million dollars in revenue.

http://www.snopes.com/legal/comma.asp

there was also a supreme court case about the vegetableness of a tomato and the distinction between botanical and common use, i wrote about it in my HS government class...

In the area of America that is now the state of Carolina, a prehistoric crocodile once roamed, two hundred thirty-one million years ago.


They were called 'Carnufex Carolinensis', or 'Carolina Butcher', were nine feet long, and walked on their hind legs.

And had really big teeth.

the above monstrosity is a hyperbass [aka "octo-sub-contrabass"] flute, which plays down to the G-0 below C0 [about 24 cycles per second], lower than most pipe organs! it takes so much air, that a single whole note at anything above a whisper requires one complete exhalation.

^ egad

I would love to be able to toot one o' them big tooters I just found out they now make one even BIGGER that plays all the way down to C-0 or 16 cycles per second which is as low as the deepest pipe organs with 32' bourdon pipe ranks. Imagine the air THAT thing must take! that is the lowest C produced by just about any musical instrument other than the rare pipe organs with 64' pipes.

/\ /\ Wowsers ! ! Imagine Toccata and Fugue in D minor on that ! !! !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY

if you thought that was something else, getta load of THIS!-

the OCTO-contra-bass fiddle.

and THIS-

and now for a sense of scale, both visually and aurally, between the octobass and the contrabass-

This is one of several guitar sculptures designed by Japanese artist Yoshihiko Satoh

^^^
imagine strapping THAT thing on and giving it a strum

You could pretty much just put a capo on a different place on each fretboard, and use one neck per note!

The Octobass was amazing and hilarious! It sounded great in the duet with the contrabass though!

^^^
I WANT one o' them octobasses