Flight of the Bumblebee, Played on an Accordion and a Banjo

Posted by Alex in Music, Video Clips on April 23, 2009 at 2:12 am



Flight of the Bumblebee on a chromatic button accordion: YouTube Link

Previously, Neatorama reader Minnesotastan pointed out an amazing performance of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor as played on an accordion by YouTube user AccCam.

Though that was fantastic, Neatoramanaut Frau told us of one even better: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee played on the chromatic button accordion by Alexander Dmitriev. Look at his fingers fly!

And while we’re at it, here’s Flight of the Bumblebee as played on a banjo by Ken Aoki:


Flight of the Bumblebee on a banjo: YouTube Link


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10 comments to "Flight of the Bumblebee, Played on an Accordion and a Banjo"

  1. DaveL
    April 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 am

    Ok... that was great... but that's enough accordion posts for a while mmm'kay?

  2. Minnesotastan
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Perhaps DaveL would prefer to hear the Flight of the Bumblebee played on the tuba!

  3. DaveL
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 am

    lol... nooooo....

  4. keysmaker
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 am

    Nice one! this post make my day!

  5. alwaysthere
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 am

    I can show you a link that is even better. At the following link a guy sets the world record for flight of the bumblebee at 320bpm. It gets good at about 7 minutes into the video.

    http://namesty.multiply.com/video/item/46

  6. Frau
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    What? Two whole accordion posts in how many months?
    I guess I should resume my search for bacon and zombie related posts. :P

    @ Minnesotastan - the tuba one is great.

  7. Christophe
    April 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Weirdest accordeon at 2'15 :
    http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/beatbox/video/x1xv8u_lhomm e-orchestre_fun

  8. Mytake
    April 23rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    I love and fully endorse these talented Borats playing well-known songs on the accordion and whatnot. For those who live in Mars and therefore have not watched it on Youtube yet, I recommend searching for Los Colorados playing "Hot'n'Cold".

  9. Ali S.
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    Accordions fascinate me because of all those buttons.

  10. ted
    April 25th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    The accordion was too muddy. The Toccata was way better on accordion.

    I loved the banjo one.

    Alwaysthere, is that 320 Bumblebees Per Minute?


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