Octopus

Ian "Hankpiece" Schwartz plays the song Octopus by Jonathan William Coulton, the Colchester Kid.

If anybody is curious the instrument is a vintage Islander Ukette from the 1950's. It's made from injection molded plastic and is about 16" long.

Chords are from here:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Octopus

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ukulele
• hank
• hankpiece
• coulton
• thing
• week
• aftermath
• cephalapod
• alternative
• blues
• classical
• country
• naked
• quad
• run

[mdsuave13]

"i'm the biggest uke player to uke size ratio that i've ever seen..." HAHA classic.

[LlamasOnCrack]

This is the only guy is the only person(Besides JoCo)Who deserves to do tributes.

[nacrociochi]

Nice. How did you tune the uke?

[hyrulianshinobi333]

your vocals were not perfect, but for no lessons you did a good job, much better than i ever could. your ukulele was great though

[a5assmonky]

Hey. You're awesome. Great work. However,Iz was enormous. He might have you beat in size ratio, even while playing a baritone. Either way, I'm a huge JoCo fan and you're swell.

[UKISOCIETY]

Amazing to hear actual and distinct chords coming from that instrument. Good job!

[alacard2]

This dude is awful

[jclark509]

Nice job, sir. And despite what others may have said, I thought the singing was okay. I mean, it's not so bad that I wanted to turn it off -- quite the contrary, I found the song easy to listen to and the melody is nice. Your playing is super. Cheers.

[SuperSatan3]

your voice isn't overly melodic, but you seemed to have gotten the tones right.

For a piece of plastic, that tiny little instrument sounded pretty nice.

[dianeb1020]

Of course, I absolutely meant it to be constructive. And honest.

[hankpiece]

I'm really sorry you didn't like it. Despite having studied music, I never took vocal lessons. But I'm always trying to improve. I'm sure you meant for this feedback to be constructive! Keep checking in.

[wwelti]

Wow. I haven't seen this until now, and it's great! Aaaah. I am longing for an ukette :D

Cool song!

Regards, Wilfried