{"id":9494,"date":"2016-07-18T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2016-07-17T19:38:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T02:38:42","slug":"less-an-annoyatron-and-more-an-annoyaharmonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/less-an-annoyatron-and-more-an-annoyaharmonica\/","title":{"rendered":"less an annoyatron and more an annoyaharmonica?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday night, a bunch of the Lair went out to see the Seattle Symphony and Chorale do Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring<\/i>, and 1) holy crow, what a marathon for the performers, I mean damn, and 2) that worked surprisingly well as an art form. Also, the soloists were great.<\/p>\n

I know that soundtrack better than I realised, too – I kept picking up small differences in performance, mostly breathing points with winds. There’s a bit towards the end with tin whistle that I don’t know how you do without a breath, and my suspicion now is “you don’t, you do it in post.”<\/p>\n

Of course, as soon as we got to Boromir at the Council of Elrond, the entire room exploded in laughter, as was inevitable. DAMN YOU INTERNETS<\/p>\n

I also picked up this monster in the gift shop:<\/p>\n

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And posted on Twitter, “YAY! I’ve found a whole way to be annoying!” and then played bits from Lord of the Rings all the way home. But after playing around with it a while – really, it’s not so much an annoyatron. It’s more a harmonica with a keyboard. That maybe could still be super annoying, but it will, nonetheless, be musical<\/eM>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it’s not chromatic – it’s C-major only – but it’s more flexible than you’d expect, and you can get a bit of vibrato out of it. I have no idea what if anything I’ll ever do with it, but it’s a legit addition to the noisemaker collection.<\/p>\n

George (the cat), though, really hates it. So I guess it’s still an annoyatron for some<\/em> of us. Poor kitty. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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