“Angels We Have Heard on High” Played on a Piece of Broccoli

• jack.wh
  January 17th, 2008 at 11:50 am

  Blimey. How odd.

• k
  January 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

  lol it sounds nice. Watch it on mute, it’s hilarious

• Christopher
  January 17th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

  Brilliantly absurd. I was just trying to imagine being at a dinner party, and one of my friends blowing an enchanting song through a broccoli floret. HA! It must be hard to carve the whistling part. I did it out of clay before, and you got to get it juuust right.

• kid icarus
  January 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

  maybe if more of the japanese were making and playing beautiful broccoli-like orcanias the fishermen would be so busy making awesome music they wouldn’t be out hunting whales and slaughtering dolphins.

• Eric
  January 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  You know, it sounded a lot better than I thought it would. I clicked on the video expecting to hear some sort of kazoo-like sound, but that actually mimicked a recorder quite well.

• gail
  January 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

  I’ve listened to a couple of his other vegetable creations and the broccoli definitely has the best sound — but they’re all amazing. The great thing about it is that it really is musical.

• biltmore
  January 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  kid icarus, congratulations. Your comment was the most ignorant one I’ve read this year. Douchebag.

  I thought that this was great! Wonder how long it took him to get it in tune.

• ted
  January 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  The year’s just beginning, biltmore.

  The music was nice, but it’s kind of obscene-looking to watch him play it. I think it’s the look in his eyes.

  It’s the shape and holes that matter more than the material, if you’re just building a simple recorder.

  Nifty.

• Rhea
  January 17th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

  Ingenious. It could get kids to eat more broccoli. Or play more broccoli.

• chad
  January 17th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  from the first 25 seconds of the video that guy could have told me he built a damn time machine out of that broccoli and I would have believed him.

• SenorMysterioso
  January 17th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  i would like to see a how to construct your own broccoli whistle tutorial

• Alex
  January 17th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

  Wasn’t there a video game or something like that about this? Like Zelda and the Ocarina of Thyme?

  But seriously, if you guys like this, check out the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.

• kid icarus
  January 18th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

  @ biltmore:

  you’ve obviously not been reading a lot of the comments in various postings.

  and fyi,

  http://www.whales.org.au/news/antarctic.html
  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2129954.ece

  my point is if they were playing broccoli orcanias/flutes then there’d be no time to kill endangered whales and slaughter dolphins. the comment was directed towards the fishermen not the japanese people as a whole. it was meant to be in a similar vain as “make love not war”……

• cake
  January 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  No, you’re ignorant. The reasoning for bringing up that point makes you look like a green peace or peta drone. Why don’t you go make a “save the animals” poster and feebly attempt to save the world.

• kid icarus
  January 23rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  @ cake:

  who sounds ignorant now?

• ieatbees
  January 24th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

  @ kid icarus

  You still sound the most ignorant. You’re a disgrace to people who care about animals and the environment. It’s people like you who make even laid back treehuggers like myself cringe.

• ieatbees
  January 24th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

  Also- I think this is terribly amazing. This guy is very talented.

  (I’m not coming back to see if anyone decided to reply to me. I’ve said all that I need to say.)

• dwha
  February 10th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  kid icarus: take note that no one will ever click those links, most people aren’t really worried that the orientals are hungry enough to hunt whales, its not like they have enough land to farm on.

  Oh, and how in the hell did you see guy playing broccoli and think whales? oh thats right, you didn’t, you saw an oriental guy and immediately stereotyped him as whale killer… wow, racist tree hugger, hug the tree, not the human

  also take note: you just got told by a 13 year old

  Anyway, ya, hilarious, i wanna see a tutorial too

• CwazNah
  February 14th, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  dwha:
  Indeed… I agree entirely. It’s good to see other kids talking like that instead of talking like idiots XD.

  Heh and I know you won’t believe this, but oh well…
  I’m 12 myself

• dwha
  February 16th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  hahaha, sadly its the adults who are talking like idiots

• CwazNah
  February 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  Indeed :/

• dwha
  February 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 am

  what exactly does cwaznah mean?

• Luchene
  February 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 am

  My…..this is freaking awesome!I’ve tried to make a makeshift recorder before and failed epicly! I wonder how long the broco-flute will last….

  And good job chidlers!! I would’ve said the same.
  Since were all giving out our ages…..im 14!

• Jimbob
  February 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

  When I woke up this morning I never expected I’d see something like that.

• Ken
  February 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am

  @kid icarus: have you heard of multi-tasking? It’s not like they can play brocolli-instruments 24/7.

  They can do both.

• CwazNah
  May 6th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

  No clue what it means. I made this name up on the spot cause I didn’t want to use my normal screen name ;).

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