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Caroline McCaskey playing the US National Anthem on Saw before a Baseball Game /r/ALL
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u/firmerJoe
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Great, now the stadium is haunted.
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u/AfterTemperature2198 7d ago •
Even ghosts wouldnāt want to be at every Aās home game
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u/broskie94 7d ago
This one hurts as an Aās fan
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u/BradGroux 7d ago
I think that is more of a slight on the Coliseum than anything.
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u/TheDude-Esquire 7d ago
I loved that place as a kid. I went to a game last year, and it's just sad now. I went to fenway a few years back, even over a hundred years old that place has more life than the coliseum ever did. I really hope they get the new one on the water. If they leave I either never see another game, or have to become a giants fan.
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u/Agreeable_Ad3760 7d ago
Tragic what management are doing to that team. You can even see in the video the bottom deck is 3/4 empty
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u/Mcoov 7d ago edited 7d ago
Tragic makes it sound like bad luck and misfortune have befallen the team. No, this is completely deliberate.
Management wants to leave Oakland, and has for almost two decades, but they donāt want a Cleveland Browns-type situation where the public wants the team to stay. So instead theyāve been going the Montreal Expos route: fostering apathy amongst the staff, the players, and the fans, until no one cares anymore. Then they can move to another city, get a new stadium, and a new excited fanbase with minimal resistance from Oakland or MLB.
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u/GWooK 7d ago
Do they even have money to leave?
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u/Mcoov 7d ago
MLB will not contract a team; if anything they want to expand to 32 teams.
The Aās need a new stadium, theyāre actually the one team I agree totally need a new building (as opposed to the Flames or the WFT). The Howard Terminal plan is the closest thing youāll get to a good-faith attempt by the Aās to stay, but itās still in developmental hell.
Like the NFL did with the Raiders, MLB will probably help the Aās leave Oakland if that decision gets made. I can see Las Vegas, Portland, and even Vancouver as options.
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u/jfk_sfa 7d ago
Oh itās been haunted for a long time.
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u/TurtleHeadPrairieDog 7d ago
Haunted by the ghosts of all the great players contracts that should have been extended but we're instead traded/let to sign with other teams because the A's ownsership is cheap and doesn't like winning championships
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u/illchay_outyay
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It kinda sounds like a old timey recording of a opera singer.
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u/Como_thellamas 7d ago •
Sounds like the main villain theme from Parasite Eve.
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u/Izucram 7d ago
Patriotic aliens
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u/DaisyBB-gun 7d ago
Mars Attacks vibes
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u/SpartanWarrior196 7d ago
Ack ack ack
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u/kamilo87 7d ago
I recently found that sub and me and my brother were laughing a lot with the content! Ack ack!!!
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u/CoheedBlue 7d ago
This sounds like a patriotic ghost trying to be spooky.
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u/Guybrush_Creepwood_ 7d ago •
If the USA was just one giant haunted house, this would be the doorbell.
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u/thescrape 7d ago
Sheās the backup sawist for Nuetral milk hotel!
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u/-ghostinthemachine- 7d ago •
Imagine being second fiddle to a superior sawyer.
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u/zebozebo 7d ago
Imagine being second fiddle to a superior sawyer.
If I were second fiddle to a superior sawyer, I'd seek a lawyer to file suit for sawyer seniority.
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u/Just_tappatappatappa 7d ago
I thought this was a joke, but itās real and I donāt know how to feel about it.
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u/dumdadumdumAHHH 7d ago
And she has a class on Udemy for anyone interested in learning how to play!
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u/connortait 7d ago edited 7d ago
That was like listening to a singing *theramin.
Edit. *theremin
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u/illbebythebatphone 7d ago •
I used to have a theremin but I hardly ever touched it.
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u/SummitReach 7d ago
.....wow. Take my upvote lmao
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u/Knoke1 7d ago
I can only hope that's a common joke among... Thereminists?
I can only hope it is anyway.
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u/Space_cowgirl2000 7d ago
I don't get it?
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u/blond-max 7d ago
Maybe that's the sound theremin was intended to replicate? or maybe it's unintentional
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u/Delivery-Shoddy 7d ago edited 6d ago
It was invented by accident, Leon Theremin was conducting research into proximity sensors for the soviets and it only became an instrument because he used to play cello and realized he could play notes with it.
Fun fact it was the first electronic (edit ty u/Skips-T) musical instrument to be mass produced
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u/Lithium-Ryan-Battery 7d ago
Leon Theremin also invented the bug that was hidden behind the Great Seal in US ambassador Averell Harriman's office in Moscow. The embassy staff didn't discover the bug for seven years.
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u/Beard_o_Bees 7d ago
Leon Theremin also invented the bug that was hidden behind the Great Seal in US ambassador Averell Harriman's office in Moscow
Get out! How interesting! That's one of the all time 'greatest hits' of espionage.
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u/Lithium-Ryan-Battery 7d ago
He also invented a primitive laser microphone that was used by the KGB.
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u/Mortar_Maggot 7d ago
It gets better. The seal was gifted by the Soviet version of boy/girl scouts.
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u/Mjolnir12 7d ago
*Theremin
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u/FrighteningJibber 7d ago
*Wheremin
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u/Fun-Engineering3541 7d ago
*Theremin
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u/danhaller28
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And the fan goes crazy!
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u/whogivesashirtdotca 7d ago
So cute - when she played the high note on āfreeā the crowd gave a little āwhoaaaa!ā
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u/shadowmastadon 7d ago
This is the most impressive feat anyone in an Aās Jersey has done in three years
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u/I-amthegump 7d ago
Humans are weird
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u/palpablescalpel 7d ago
Haha for some reason this video made me kind of emotional about how weird and creative and cool humans can be.
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u/Synaptic_Theft 7d ago
The band Neutral Milk Hotel features a singing saw in their In the Aeroplane Over the Sea album! Highly recommended checking it out!
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u/WhizBangPissPiece 7d ago
When they went on the reunion tour for that album they did full orchestration, including the saw. It was the best show I've ever seen.
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u/Dude_Im_stoned_and_ 7d ago
for the longest time I thought it was a Theramin until I saw them up in Buffalo during their final tour. My jaw hit the floor when the dude created those sounds with a saw. Still one of my favorite shows ever.
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u/niltermini 7d ago
Might have been my favorite show ever too. Absolutely incredible.
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u/Beard_o_Bees 7d ago
Neutral Milk Hotel is one of those bands that you either absolutely love or just can't stand.
I love them, but I found them during a very fucked up time in my life and they provided the perfect soundtrack to the drama at the time.
I never got to see them live sadly.
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u/Ricky_Rollin 7d ago
That is a damn good album and I absolutely love telling parks and Rec fans that it is indeed a real band.
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u/Morning-Chub 7d ago
My wife had no idea even after several years of unknowingly listening to their music and me playing their songs on the guitar. She thought it was a joke.
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u/BriecauseIcan 7d ago edited 7d ago
I needed to find this comment to confirm I wasnāt trippinā¦April really had a real favorite band?!?? š¤Æ
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u/narok_kurai 7d ago
Yeah and it's a damn good one too. "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" really can lay claim to being one of the greatest folk/indie rock albums of all time. I still can't hear "Two-Headed Boy" without tearing up to this day.
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u/rineross 7d ago
Julian Koster also uses the singing saw in the fiction podcast the Orbiting Human Circus. Its such a weird show, plays to the strangeness and loneliness of the human experience
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u/The_Pip 7d ago
Anyone get Theremin vibes from this?
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u/shinymetalobjekt 7d ago
After looking it up, yes. It initially reminded me of that opera singer in Fifth Element, but even that was more traditional sounding than this.
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u/Trasfixion 7d ago
Yep, its interesting how the theremin came to be, using the sound of a saw as inspiration
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u/sheisthebeesknees 7d ago
How do she keep it in tune?
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u/normally_innocent 7d ago edited 7d ago
Lots of practice
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u/rustyspoon07 7d ago
Same way a trombone player stays in tune, or a singer using their voice, or a violin/cello/bass
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u/blond-max 7d ago
Found this video on youtube exploring the instrument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27tKwyu9_k
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u/finian2 7d ago
Goddamn that must have taken a lot of practice and very good intuition.
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u/newtrawn 7d ago
right?!? It's the same sort of thing as playing the trombone. With no exact notes on the instrument, I've always been incredibly impressed by people who can nail a perfect note time and time again with that slider.
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u/arsenicmonkey 7d ago
As a trombone player I gotta say the singing saw looks way harder- there are only 7 different āpositionsā on a slide trombone that you use to hit every note on a chromatic scale. You change the register youāre playing in by adjusting your airflow or hitting a valve. With the singing saw it looks like youād have to be far more precise.
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u/Wellthatkindahurts 7d ago
With wind instruments we have a bit of pitch leeway with embouchure as well. The saw definitely needs more precision, it's really impressive either way.
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u/jesst 7d ago
How do you even learn to do this? Is there a like āhow to play the sawā course at some local adult colleges?
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u/NRMusicProject 7d ago
Most of these players are self taught. The interesting thing is that left hand position is very painful at the beginning, because you have to hold the saw in that "S" shape to get the resonance, and the constant pinching pressure between the thumb and forefinger really cramps up the thenar.
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u/position88 7d ago
My uncle taught himself to play the saw. He has a special case for it, so he can bring it to family gatherings, and ruin the party in several ways.
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u/SkidWilly86 7d ago
Came here to see if anybody noticed that. In the first few bars my thumb would have been screaming for a break.
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u/Hot-Campaign-4553
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She is definitely a cutting edge musician.
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u/shahooster 7d ago
Unfortunately, with nary an Aās fan present, she was only one who saw.
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u/Chupapayne 7d ago
Honestly, with a better team she probably wouldnāt have made the cut.
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u/johnnybok 7d ago
If a tree falls in the woods and no Aās fans are there to hear it, she still makes a sound
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u/GeoInfoSciLHP
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I'll bet no one saw this coming
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u/GhostPenguinBaby 7d ago
She's cut from a different cloth for sure.
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u/FavFelon 7d ago
Well done! Somebody give that lady some wood
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u/Loud-Natural9184 7d ago
Phrasing
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u/xboxdingleberry 7d ago
He said what HE SAID š¤ now give her some wood ā¼ļøā¼ļø
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u/Se7enThunders 7d ago
Makes me want to watch Home Improvement. IIRC they did this on one of the Tool Time musical tools episodes.
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u/Suspicious_Entrance 7d ago edited 7d ago
Canāt believe how far I had to come down for this comment. Maybe Iām too old for Reddit
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u/V65Pilot 7d ago
Better than a lot I've heard over the past few years. *cough* Roseanne Barr for starters...
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u/JockBbcBoy 7d ago
Fergie.
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u/SlightWhite 7d ago
One of the best performances ever.
Everyone dead silent tryna get through it. All it took was one tiny smirk and it sent the whole floor into laughter, no words needed. A true human bonding moment that we should put in a time capsule
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u/buckshot307 7d ago
āOāre the land of the Brie, and the home of the mmmbraaAAA aaaAaa
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u/RidleyScotch 7d ago
over the past few years. cough Roseanne Barr for starters...
32 years ago, is not what i would consider "over the past few years"
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u/Cold_Garlic_1289 7d ago
As much as I found this interesting, my dog REALLY did not like it.
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u/bluegryffin 7d ago
Wow what are the odds of this? I literally just saw this woman at a subway station in New York yesterday. When I heard the sounds I thought someone was singing that impossible 5th element song. When I turned the corner I saw her sitting in a char with a bowstring and her saw just playing the fucking out of it making it sound like an opera alien.
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u/native_ginger 7d ago
Might have been a different person as she lives in California, but you never know
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u/bluefire0120 7d ago edited 7d ago
Mark Normand the comedian talks about how in elementary school he was doing school work and one of the questions was ācircle all the instruments on the pageā or something like that. There was a saw on the page and he circled it. Story has it, that the teacher called Markās mom in and tried to tell her that her child was mentally challenged because he circled a saw, which obviously wasnāt an instrument in the teacherās eyes. Mark went on to explain that he saw someone playing a saw in a monty python sketch, and thatās why he circled it. Now seeing this lady play this saw like a rockstar, all I can think is āfuck that teacherā lol, she had no idea what she was talking about, as she was just an uncultured lady from southern louisiana who had not heard someone rip the saw, and was challenging other peopleās mental capacity based solely on her experiences and perspective of the world. Any idea that challenged her ideology simply meant that the other person must be retarded, and needed to learn and think how she learned and thought.
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u/rocket_beer 7d ago
Now, all I want to see is someone build a house with a violin š¤š¾
Then, have the same math problem to circle carpenter tools š¤£
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u/gnomesteez 7d ago
I went to school with Caroline! Sheās such a great person and a really incredible musician!
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u/HistoricalBoard1449
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Wonāt lie, Iād rather that than someone singing.
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u/DoomGoober 7d ago
The melody of the Star Spangled Banner is purposely difficult to sing. The song was written by a member of a British musical appreciation society and a gifted soloist would sing the song over wine after dinner in order to show off their skills.
Yup, out National Anthem has a British melody, is designed to be hard to sing, and was meant to be sung during after dinner drinks (it's a drinking song!)
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u/Nice_Block 7d ago
Man, just imagine the third verse being sung and still enjoying your dinner. Wild.
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u/ToukenPlz 7d ago
Pretty sure it was her who did a very cool video with Rob Scallon showing off the ins and out of this instrument!
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u/HalfLit24_7 7d ago
Sounds like a version of that would be played in the last scene of a movie, where the whole country was leveled by nuclear war.
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u/Frosty-Worker8978 7d ago
She came, she sawed, and she conquered š what a cool instrument to choose as a discipline!!
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u/commonthiem 7d ago
I'm not saying this isn't a talent, but this is definitely a heehaw talent.
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