The Squarepent - Homemade Tuba (Serpent)

This is a short video I put together that explains and demonstrates two unusual homemade instruments that my uncle, Lindahl King, made for me out of wood.

My uncle got the idea to make these instruments from the website of squarepent inventor Paul Schmidt...
http://www.serpentwebsite.com/SQPT_concept.htm

They are based on the design of the ancient serpent, a predecessor of the tuba. Although they are made of wood and have finger holes like a woodwind instrument, they are played with a tuba mouthpiece and have to be buzzed like all the instruments in the brass family.

The finger holes don't allow for much pitch manipulation, as most of the sound is controlled in the lips of the performer. They work well for a brass player who wants to play at the beach and doesn't want their metallic instrument ruined by sand.

The tunes that I every so poorly attempt to play in the video are Also Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30, a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss, The Empire March from Star Wars written by John Williams, and the theme from the gameshow Jeopardy.

I hope you enjoy the video. Thank you.

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[loopylogloopy]

dont have a heartattack lol

[221army]

Almost as good as a real tuba

[themeleed]

it sounded like you said "squarepants" at first- as in spongebob.

[TheRuadan]

look like a tuba with saxophone dns :D

[CarrotZ53]

3:38 finger is like 1/2 on the hole in the middle that's why it's sort of out of tune if that's what you meant

[Aurumvideo]

holy crap you look like my band director O_o

[TheExample1000]

whats the song at 8:15

[thewr0ngchild]

Pretty good effort, it actually sounds better than a serpent, which really isn't a nice sound at all, and is really really hard to get to sound good.

[aberfin999]

please play at my wedding. ;)

[PsychoactiveRodent]

Very nice! At the begging it sounds almost more like a didgeridoo than a tuba. Keep it up!

[stinkybeans75]

that is sooooooooooooooo cool.now im the padawon ur the jedi



[kimkibumkey231]

Nice poofing dude! Seriously u should fix that!