It’s the video we’ve all been waiting for. Two recorders at once. In the nose. Two blowholes (I think that the technical name is nostrii – 1 nostril, 2 nostrii), so two recorders. A descant and a treble.
It’s beautifully done. And I love the t-shirt.
Little known fact about me: I’m actually pretty good on the recorder. I know we all did it for a year at school when we were 6 or 7, but I kept going for many years afterwards, playing for the leading youth recorder group in Sheffield. We toured widely, as far as Manchester, Holmfirth and London (amongst other places), winning several (or more) competitions, and I still have my recorders to this day.
Could I do this, though?
Well, almost. The whole nostril thing wouldn’t be an issue at all: in fact, I do a great rendition of Jingle Bells like this.
But… the balancing the descant on the half loaf or white bread? No.
I only eat brown, seeded stuff now* – doctor’s orders, see? – and that’s simply not spongy enough to allow for adequate movement. In fact, trying to do this with a loaf of this heavier stuff might even result in some sort of bizarre injury. Hopefully only to your nose, but you never really know, do you?
So I’ll leave this sort of thing to the expert in our video above.
Safety first.
* Apparently, there’s some in the freezer.