Jean Shepherd and the Nose Flute - Part II

This post is the sequel of Jean Shepherd and the Nose Flute - Part I

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What's laying on the papers? is it a Jew's harp, a Humanatone or something else?:


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3.- Compositions

What I mean by 'Compositions' are kind of improvisations Jean Shepherd generally played on several instruments (playing along over his own recordings, sometimes re-using the same). Most of the time, you can recognize percussions, kazoo, nose flute...


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4.- Experiments

Those musical experiments are very interesting, even though Jean Shepherd didn't hesitate to play them again and again. At the beginning, I wondered what was the very sharp instrument Shep used for the melody: was it a tin whistle? No, there were slidings... Was it a syringe flute? No, too fast and too precise. Then I understood it was a nose flute. A pre-recorded nose flute that was accelerated! (I made a test slowing and pitching it down, and I confirmed the nose flute). Then Jean Shepherd either played along live nose flute on it, or even read the commercials...


... Mozart...

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... Rossini...

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... but also on a March:

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>> Access Part III

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Related links :

- Jean Shepherd and the Nose Flute - Part I
- Jean Shepherd and the Nose Flute - Part II
- Jean Shepherd and the Nose Flute - Part III
- Jean Shepherd and the Nose Flute - Part IV

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