galinha gritando

January 7, 2023 5:59 AM

The rubber chicken is a versatile musical instrument. (all youtube links)

(Some of Big Marvel's non-chicken stuff are also fun.)

(Previously and previouslier)

posted by eotvos (15 comments total)

My impression is that the Pachelbel video is almost certainly tuned up in post-production. I don't think it's possible to play straight tones like that on a rubber chicken, though to be fair I haven't tried.
posted by anhedonic at 7:59 AM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

old school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iildw7HdkJQ
posted by wmo at 8:02 AM on January 7, 2023 [2 favorites]

TwoSetViolin are SRS MSCNs, and I would be shocked — shocked, I tell you — if they were ever messing with us in any way
posted by scruss at 8:50 AM on January 7, 2023

Fantastic post.

I love watching the harpist crack up in the My Heart Will Go On video! You can really tell how much fun they're having playing together.
posted by capricorn at 10:39 AM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

My border collie just stopped eating and stared at me the entire time one of these videos was on. Her favorite toy is - rubber chicken.
posted by cybrcamper at 10:44 AM on January 7, 2023 [2 favorites]

Mozart on a Rubber Chicken
Rossini on a Rubber Chicken
More Mozart on a Rubber Chicken

Military-grade Rubber Chickening
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 10:58 AM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

I'm mystified - how is he controlling the toy's pitch? At first I assumed it was auto-tuned, but the notes aren't uniform and the pitch slides up/down a little at the beginnings/ends of each note...
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:20 AM on January 7, 2023

He's using the chicken to measure it.
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:22 AM on January 7, 2023

What, no love for the ducks of war?
posted by aspo at 12:02 PM on January 7, 2023 [3 favorites]

Adam Savage's Ultimate Duck Army
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:33 PM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

MetaFilterI don't think it's possible... though to be fair I haven't tried.
posted by hippybear at 3:34 PM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

I love watching the harpist crack up in the My Heart Will Go On video!

I don't know much about the guy, but I'm guessing he's at a music-focused college or similar based on the really talented friends he convinces to participate. I think his primary instrument is a flute, when not a chicken.
posted by eotvos at 4:31 PM on January 7, 2023

I was once gifted a rubber chicken
with love
but it didn't squeek
what use is a rubber chicken,
albeit a gifted loved one,
if it doesn't fecking squeek?
posted by winesong at 5:17 PM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

We literally had rubber chickens in the last show I was in (the poulterer had two rubber chickens hanging on her cart in Christmas Carol) and they were open-butted, de-squeaked, much to many people's disappointment.

On a related note, said poulterer is the one who told me about TwoSetViolin and thus I have passed this on to her today.
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:12 PM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

I started watching the first one and my husband said "what are you watching- never mind, I don't want to know." Followed by a pained "why?"
posted by freethefeet at 2:57 AM on January 8, 2023 [2 favorites]