OK, YouTube could be addicting. The question is no longer "what can you find on YouTube", it's "what can you NOT find on YouTube".
Here, in my first attempt at linking to a YouTube clip, is a really funny video of a comedian who grew up playing the cello. (Hmm, I wonder how many of those there are out there, really?)
He loved the cello, and he loved the repertroire available to him with one exception.
Pachelbel's Canon in D.
Enjoy.
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I will spend the rest of the day humming the theme song to "The Brady Bunch" just to get "Pachelbel's Canon in D" out of my head, thank you very much!
I played the cello in 5th grade.
Didn't learn Pachelbel's Canon, but I DID learn "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore."
A couple weeks into it, I gave up.
The instrument was large enough to be a source of pain and ridicule but not quite large enough to serve as a physical shield.
Dude. That was freakin' hilarious.
Believe it or not, my instrument growing up was the Bassoon, of all things. I can see how the Cello can be a "source of pain and ridicule", but Bassoon isn't much different. In the hands of a junior high school student, the instrument produces sounds like unpleasant bodily functions. This of course induces fits of giggles in anyone who hears it.
I got giggled at a lot.
Ah, but Timothy, could you play Pachebel's Canon in D?
One of my brothers played bassoon. Funnily enough, he gave it up in high school and switched to drums. Apparently, the girls thought drums were much cooler.
My french horn, while smaller than a cello or bassoon case, wasn't any better. Take one skinny, red-headed, freckled 7th grade boy, add too many books and one french horn (impossible to walk in a straightline carrying one of those), and place all of the above on a school bus. It wasn't pretty.
Ah, the French Horn blues. You just explained why my older brother was beaten-up so much in high school. You should have seen him the semester he had to play the double belled euphonium. It was tragic.
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