The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57813 Message #913503
Posted By: Genie
19-Mar-03 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: SIMPLE unaccompanied crowd-pleasers?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: SIMPLE unaccompanied crowd-pleasers?
How to do a campfire 'pipe organ;:
3/4 time
As the song leader, you get one group started as tubas, doing a low pitch "oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa...".
Next, get another group started as piccolos, going "oomp-tweet-tweet, oomp-tweet-tweet, ,,," in the soprano range.
Next, start a third group doing a mid-range instrument like a fiddle ("oomp-zing-zing") or bagpipe ("oomp-nyeer-nyeer") -- or use both of these, making it a four part orchestra.
When everyone gets going in full stride on their back-up instruments, you (by yourself or with a couple of accomplices) start up the melody ("Ach! Du Lieber Augustine!" works really well) by holding your nose and 'singing' it like this:
"Nyow nyow nyow nyow nyow nyow nyow
Nyow nyow nyow, nyow nyow nyow
Nyow nyow nyow nyow nyow nyow nyow
Nyow nyow nyow nyow."
If you can keep your back up musicians from breaking up laughing, it really does sound like a pretty good pipe organ simulation.