r/BeAmazed • u/MagoMaravilha • Aug 02 '26
Art Even the flute didn't know it could do that.
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u/ShambolicRubel Aug 02 '26
Dude picked it up in 2nd grade and never put it down.
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u/thedeuce75 Aug 02 '26
Mrs. Shepard is going to be super impressed.
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u/s7uck0 Aug 02 '26
I mean I guess it was a very real possibility, but Mrs Shepard did infact teach Flute/Recorder where I was from as well
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u/TheSoundofStolas Aug 02 '26
Oh my god I think my elementary school music teacher was also named Ms. Shepherd
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u/Frickelmeister Aug 02 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Since actual sheep herding isn't much of a career anymore and never really was for women, all the "Shepherds" had to find other flocks.
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u/Important_Contact588 Aug 02 '26
They are all named Mrs. Shepard. Alright no, I kid you not, mine was named Mrs. Dick. In second grade. Bold choices.
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u/ColdbloodedFireSnake Aug 02 '26
The music teacher is always a ms shepherd, taking care of her flock
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u/jacksonbarley Aug 02 '26
Wait a second I had a Mr. Shepherd teach music.
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u/cheesevelour Aug 02 '26
Crazy. I had a german shepard teach me not to mess with german shepards in elementary.
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u/Pun_In_Ten_Did Aug 02 '26
Once the german shepards reach high school, though, they chill out immensely.
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u/Askingforsome Aug 02 '26
Ditto. I think Mrs Shepard may have been an inter-dimensional time traveling music teacher for the recorder.
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u/Korventenn17 Aug 02 '26
Could be, an incarnation of Doctor Who liked to play the recorder, so maybe it's a Timelord thing.
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u/raspberryharbour Aug 02 '26
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite recorder solo on the Citadel
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u/dongdongplongplong Aug 02 '26
we had a mrs Shepherd too! except she didn't teach music she taught math and karate chopped a kid in the back once for accidentally rocking their chair on to her toe!
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u/Iloveherthismuch Aug 02 '26
Same here, back in the 90s our music teacher was called Mr Shepard. Dude kept insisting i play brass when I wanted to do percussion.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Aug 02 '26
If she'd played me this video at the start of the lessons I might've actually wanted to learn how to play the damn thing.
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u/MultipleAnimals Aug 02 '26
Hes gonna get grumpy star sticker to his notebook for not playing Mary's got a little lamb as that was todays homework
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u/randomtask2000 Aug 02 '26
Of all the billion flutes that don’t make it past A, B, C, this is the chosen one.
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u/AreOceansGodsTears Aug 02 '26
It is recorder not a flute.
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u/smooshmooth Aug 02 '26
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u/UntestedMethod Aug 02 '26
I just call the damn thing a whistle and get on with my shit.
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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Aug 02 '26
Honestly wonder if there any type of recorders that don't have that ear piercing tone.
They all sound like cheap plastic
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u/SkeletalJazzWizard Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
thank you, this is one of my weirdest pet peeves but it makes me super upset for some reason. the WESTERN CONCERT FLUTE isnt the flute, its a western concert flute. a kind of transverse flute. and a baby one in the context of the age of the flute as an instrument. and transverse flutes further still arent the flute. they arent any more valid than duct flutes, they arent any more valid than end blown flutes. something about people insisting on making factually incorrect corrections they vaguely remember from some pedantic but also wrong shit they learned in 8th grade makes my teeth itch.
edit: also you need to write the end of your link like this, (recorder\)) for it to work properly. at least on old reddit, i dont know if the app or new reddit compensate for the markup error.
Recorders for people who couldnt click on that initial link
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u/fiber2 Aug 02 '26
This should totally be an animated movie "The Pied Piper."
Disney would totally buy the company, make a live action version with him as the villain and a rat would be the hero who saved the children by being an even better musician.
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u/MagoMaravilha Aug 02 '26
I wonder how he does that! Reminds me of a trumpet.
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u/Mudfap Aug 02 '26
It’s like rolling an R while speaking.
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u/boit0 Aug 02 '26
One of my favorite musical terms: Flutter Tonguing.
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u/Column_A_Column_B Aug 02 '26
I think he did a growl. Humming while blowing into a wind instrument gives that cool distortion. Kind of a cool trick to learn because it's really not that hard to activate your vocal cords while playing a wind instrument. Saxophone players get a lot of praise when they do it.
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u/king_ofbhutan Aug 02 '26
A much easier way to do it on recorder is to hum at a relatively low pitch.
It works on soprano, and it works on bass, so i assume it works on the others too!
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u/saibjai Aug 02 '26
This is what happens when you max out the upgrade on the first weapon you get.
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u/Pylgrim Aug 02 '26
Bunch of thuggy bros armed with brass instruments elbow each other and snort when this rando they stopped on the road pulls out a recorder.
"5 minutes later"
A cartoon white flag comes out from a mass of battered limbs and metal.
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u/MagoMaravilha Aug 02 '26
When the bard put all his points in performance.
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u/GoodThingsDoHappen Aug 02 '26
https://youtu.be/aujOb50T8Pc?is=j_dKGRl6Ln60liNS
I get this reference
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u/topbins6 Aug 02 '26
Yo, I don't even game or anything, but that was the most succint and apt analogy. You absolutely nailed it. Right on
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u/Voloxe Aug 02 '26
Bro’s playing the recorder on expert mode 💀
God-tier bro, keep it up! 🙌
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u/jaymae77 Aug 02 '26
My kids can ply Hot Cross Buns
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u/A_spiny_meercat Aug 02 '26
Luxury. My kids figured out they could separate the whistle part from the body of the recorder and blow super hard while it screeched beyond its range
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u/Bunny_Fluff Aug 02 '26
Your children just created a Death Whistle is all. I'm sure that's fine.
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u/ThePrideOfKrakow Aug 02 '26
One a penny, two a penny? What a terrible business model.
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u/guitartoad Aug 03 '26
This guy's version of Hot Cross Buns: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8WpS-VSxqwg
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u/CollateralCoyote Aug 02 '26
Is this what all our teachers were training us for?
I guess my buns weren't hot crossed enough and I didn't get the tap for AP Recorder class or something.
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u/RecipeFunny2154 Aug 02 '26
I was so impressed by this I found him on YouTube. phillipflute2368. Everything this guy does is amazing. Has a lot of videos and they're all just as good.
Here's him doing Highway Star: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wP-KjmSESbs I especially liked how he swapped from the guitar to organ solos, totally surprised me. Just doing this shit in his car lol
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u/daronjay Aug 02 '26
That recorder is clearly a magical item carved from Mozarts thigh bones.
Color is a dead giveaway...
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u/HelpImOverthinking Aug 02 '26
If John Popper played the recorder
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u/SnooPeanuts4219 Aug 02 '26
Giving me all the Jethro Tull vibes this young man
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u/MagoMaravilha Aug 02 '26
COPY PASTE:
English isn't my first language. I just found out that you call this a "recorder."
In Portuguese, both the recorder and the flute are called "flauta", which translates to "flute". That's why I mistakenly called that a flute.
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u/Difficult_Quarter192 Aug 02 '26
Yes. It is also the case in spanish, italian and french.
It's a latin language thing.
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u/Damadamas Aug 02 '26
In Danish its blokfløjte which is block flute. Blok comes from the block of wood in the mouthpiece
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u/Difficult_Quarter192 Aug 02 '26
Yes. It is also the case in spanish, italian and french.
It's a latin language thing.
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u/a_nondescript_user Aug 02 '26
In English, we call them "Romance languages"
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u/Difficult_Quarter192 Aug 02 '26
English should stop smoking crack.
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u/garyyo Aug 02 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_(musical_instrument)
The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments and a member of the family of duct flutes that includes tin whistles and flageolets
you aren't wrong. its a type of flute
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u/ConsistentResearch55 Aug 02 '26
Actually in most Germanic languages except English it is also called a flute (block flute).
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u/CLeeTheHunt44 Aug 02 '26
Recorders are a type of flute. They’re in woodwind subgroup called Fipple Flutes
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u/dpet_77 Aug 02 '26
Yes, but you wouldn't say "string instrument" when seeing a violin
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u/Gts77 Aug 02 '26
Thank you.... Completely agree! Instruments have specific names which are used to identify them. Knowing the subgroup/family of instruments is great, and obvious in most instances once you see the instrument; but each one has its own name.
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u/UtopistDreamer Aug 02 '26
It's s type of flute instrument that is called a recorder.
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u/Jetavator Aug 02 '26
where can I follow this man?
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u/chickenbuttsandmutts Aug 02 '26
My kid says tiktok but sadly doesn't know the account 😔 He can also play Metallica on the flute
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u/Lepke2011 Aug 02 '26
OMG! While listening to this, I kept thinking I'd love to hear him do, "Hook", by Blues Traveler.
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u/clookie1232 Aug 02 '26
That was one of the most impressive things I’ve seen online in awhile. Also, I entirely forgot about recorders until just now.
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u/Eckkosekiro Aug 02 '26
Je sais pas en anglais mais en francais ca s’appelle une flute à bec. Le gars est incroyable.
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u/ZookeepergameNo8661 Aug 02 '26
What I liked more was how he was having so much fun with it. Coolbeans!
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u/ComebackShane Aug 02 '26
He doesn't mind if he even makes the scene. He's got a daytime job, he's doin' alright!
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u/ThisMachineKillsWOB Aug 02 '26
Guy covering the song in a silly way for love of the game is so on point for the lyrics of Sultans of Swing. Love it.
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u/b1tb0mber Aug 02 '26
That trill was so tasteful, literally the only person in the world to make a recorder sound good
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u/OvechknFiresHeScores Aug 02 '26
Genuinely one of the most impressive individual musical performances I have ever seen simply because how the fuck does he get that dinky little recorder to sound like THAT
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u/Dracasethaen Aug 02 '26
He is remarkably skilled and that IS amazing
Completely unrelated to that, I think this reaffirmed to me that the recorder is the worst instrument ever made, because even in good hands, I hate how it sounds lol
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u/LynnScoot Aug 02 '26
I’ve seen all sizes of recorders being played in baroque ensembles. I have a wooden tenor recorder that has a lovely mellow sound and I mostly play old English folk songs like Greensleeves and Early One Morning.
But I’ve never seen anything one recorder quite as wild as this!
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u/raineling Aug 02 '26
In music class, while in elementary school, we were expected to trt to learn the recorder (this instrument) if we didn't play something already. To see this fellow master it is quite amazing to me.
Sadly, the best I could ever do was make sounds with it like I was throwing birds into a wood chipper on a sunny day.
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u/Possible-Estimate748 Aug 02 '26
That recorder needed a cigarette after that.
This reminds me years ago watching a lady on youtube playing a clarinet, I believe, like this.
Just owning the instrument masterfully.
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u/Kuriouskat22 Aug 02 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/go1d6eFCN0n5a5yWHx
Everyone was calling the dragonzord in school.
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u/kirky-jerky Aug 02 '26
This is actually incredible. The greatest playing of a recorder I've personally heard. It might be like the 4th or 5th time I've ever listened but wow did I listen. I watched 3 times now and I really wish I knew how to play or do something so good.
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u/Ryachaz Aug 02 '26
His skills on the recorder are made impressive, and thats the best I've ever heard the recorder sound.
I still think it would've sounded better on any other wind instrument.
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u/Firesword52 Aug 02 '26
This is the shit middle school music teachers teach themselves and think is cool while getting blank looks from the students. (The other music teachers think they are awesome at least so there is some silver lining.
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u/SignificantBoot7180 Aug 02 '26
This is really cool. I just wonder how often his neighbors had to hear him practice before he got to this point.
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u/Hymon76 Aug 02 '26
If only my grade 7 teacher could play the Recorder like that! I might have actually enjoyed one of these classes 😅
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