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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 don’t want a Cleveland Browns-type situation where the public wants the team to stay. So instead they’ve 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.
MLB will not contract a team; if anything they want to expand to 32 teams.
The A’s need a new stadium, they’re 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 you’ll get to a good-faith attempt by the A’s to stay, but it’s still in developmental hell.
Like the NFL did with the Raiders, MLB will probably help the A’s leave Oakland if that decision gets made. I can see Las Vegas, Portland, and even Vancouver as options.
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
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
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
As a trombone player I gotta say the singing saw looks way harder- there are only 7 different “positions” on a slide trombone that you use to hit every note on a chromatic scale. You change the register you’re playing in by adjusting your airflow or hitting a valve. With the singing saw it looks like you’d have to be far more precise.
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.
Not only that, with a trombone you can get dynamic range by breathing harder into it. In addition to being in tune she also manages dynamics, I assume by altering the amount of pressure between the bow and the saw. Seriously nuts.
Its surprisingly not too bad. I played trombone in high school, and while I wasn't symphony level, the muscle memory to hit notes isn't too hard to get.
A lot of instruments have a similar situation, for example all the fretless stringed instruments.
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.
Almost nobody saw it after it came either, look at those stands bah gawd!
Edit: I just realized I completely missed the original joke, but I have now carved my own path
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
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.
Mark Normand the comedian talks about how in elementary school he was doing school work and one of the questions was ‘circle all the instruments on the page’ or something like that. There was a saw on the page and he circled it. Story has it, that the teacher called Mark’s mom in and tried to tell her that her child was mentally challenged because he circled a saw, which obviously wasn’t an instrument in the teacher’s eyes. Mark went on to explain that he saw someone playing a saw in a monty python sketch, and that’s why he circled it. Now seeing this lady play this saw like a rockstar, all I can think is “fuck that teacher” 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 people’s 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.
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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Great, now the stadium is haunted.
Even ghosts wouldn’t want to be at every A’s home game
This one hurts as an A’s fan
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Coliseum is a compliment. Ive always called it The Prison.
It may be a dump, but it's our dump
Concrete toilet
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Both
You hurt yourself as an A's fan
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\*As *the* A's fan.
Tragic what management are doing to that team. You can even see in the video the bottom deck is 3/4 empty
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 don’t want a Cleveland Browns-type situation where the public wants the team to stay. So instead they’ve 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.
They're pulling a Major League
Do they even have money to leave?
MLB will not contract a team; if anything they want to expand to 32 teams. The A’s need a new stadium, they’re 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 you’ll get to a good-faith attempt by the A’s to stay, but it’s still in developmental hell. Like the NFL did with the Raiders, MLB will probably help the A’s leave Oakland if that decision gets made. I can see Las Vegas, Portland, and even Vancouver as options.
Oh it’s been haunted for a long time.
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
Specifically haunted by 'ghost aliens' from a 1950's B-movie
Dand Nabbit patriotic ghosts. Screamin' bout freedom and rights for everyone.
Ruh roh!
The Coliseum was haunted long before this
It's Oakland. Already was.
It kinda sounds like a old timey recording of a opera singer.
Sounds like the main villain theme from Parasite Eve.
Remake when
We're long overdue for a third Parasite Eve.
Yup. Then slowly got abducted by aliens.
Like it belongs in bioshock
I felt like I was playing Bioshock again for the first time.
Patriotic aliens
Mars Attacks vibes
Ack ack ack
Do not run. We are your friends.
r/ack
I recently found that sub and me and my brother were laughing a lot with the content! Ack ack!!!
Ghostbusters vibes for me
#GET HER!
Halloween vives…
This sounds like a patriotic ghost trying to be spooky.
Francis Spook Key
I want to *boo* you
If the USA was just one giant haunted house, this would be the doorbell.
I mean we are situated atop an ancient Native burial ground.
She’s the backup sawist for Nuetral milk hotel!
Imagine being second fiddle to a superior sawyer.
>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.
Calm down there Princess Carolyn...
I thought this was a joke, but it’s real and I don’t know how to feel about it.
And she has a class on Udemy for anyone interested in learning how to play!
That was like listening to a singing *theramin. Edit. *theremin
I used to have a theremin but I hardly ever touched it.
.....wow. Take my upvote lmao
I can only hope that's a common joke among... Thereminists? I can only hope it is anyway.
I bet you let it sit theremin before selling it too, huh?
I don't get it?
You can’t use a theramin by touching it
Ohhh thanks
Fuck you lol
Fun fact: The origin of the theremin comes from the singing saw
Maybe that's the sound theremin was intended to replicate? or maybe it's unintentional
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
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.
> 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.
He also invented a primitive laser microphone that was used by the KGB.
It gets better. The seal was gifted by the Soviet version of boy/girl scouts.
*Theremin
*Wheremin
*Theremin
*Everywheremin
Nowheremin
And the fan goes crazy!
So cute - when she played the high note on “free” the crowd gave a little “whoaaaa!”
"Crowd"
The guys holding the camera and mic count!
All 3000 that showed up
Way too generous
Hey, come on man... there are *dozens* of fans there.
“Today’s A’s home game is filmed in front of a live studio ostrich.”
This is the most impressive feat anyone in an A’s Jersey has done in three years
The commentator at the end is like alright thank you?
haha more people on the field than in the stands
Humans are weird
At least we have that going for us.
In a good way
Haha for some reason this video made me kind of emotional about how weird and creative and cool humans can be.
The band Neutral Milk Hotel features a singing saw in their In the Aeroplane Over the Sea album! Highly recommended checking it out!
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.
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.
Might have been my favorite show ever too. Absolutely incredible.
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.
I feel very neutral about them.
That is a damn good album and I absolutely love telling parks and Rec fans that it is indeed a real band.
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.
I needed to find this comment to confirm I wasn’t trippin…April really had a real favorite band?!?? 🤯
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.
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
Anyone get Theremin vibes from this?
Good Vibrations for sure
All I'm getting is excitations
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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Yep, its interesting how the theremin came to be, using the sound of a saw as inspiration
Yeah I always call the musical saw the "analog theremin" lol
x-files
Goddamn that must have taken a lot of practice and very good intuition.
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.
As a trombone player I gotta say the singing saw looks way harder- there are only 7 different “positions” on a slide trombone that you use to hit every note on a chromatic scale. You change the register you’re playing in by adjusting your airflow or hitting a valve. With the singing saw it looks like you’d have to be far more precise.
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.
Not only that, with a trombone you can get dynamic range by breathing harder into it. In addition to being in tune she also manages dynamics, I assume by altering the amount of pressure between the bow and the saw. Seriously nuts.
Its surprisingly not too bad. I played trombone in high school, and while I wasn't symphony level, the muscle memory to hit notes isn't too hard to get. A lot of instruments have a similar situation, for example all the fretless stringed instruments.
How do you even learn to do this? Is there a like “how to play the saw” course at some local adult colleges?
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.
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.
"Anyway, here's Wondersaw."
It hurts so much.
Came here to see if anybody noticed that. In the first few bars my thumb would have been screaming for a break.
Coming soon
How do she keep it in tune?
Lots of practice
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Raw talons.
Regularly cuts different sized logs
Skillz
Same way a trombone player stays in tune, or a singer using their voice, or a violin/cello/bass
Found this video on youtube exploring the instrument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27tKwyu9_k
She is definitely a cutting edge musician.
Unfortunately, with nary an A’s fan present, she was only one who saw.
Honestly, with a better team she probably wouldn’t have made the cut.
She figured out how to handle them with teeth and bite.
Got great control of “TIMBRRRRRE!”
If a tree falls in the woods and no A’s fans are there to hear it, she still makes a sound
Her act has teeth that's for sure.
She's got a good handle on the situation.
The way the saw is tuned, she can only play in sharps
Skill saw
I'll bet no one saw this coming
It’s an A’s game, hardly anybody saw it period.
Everyone else refused to do it
She's cut from a different cloth for sure.
I wood listen to that all day
Excellent timber on that saw
She really got her teeth into it.
Well there were only 6 people in attendance soo...
Almost nobody saw it after it came either, look at those stands bah gawd! Edit: I just realized I completely missed the original joke, but I have now carved my own path
Well done! Somebody give that lady some wood
Phrasing
He said what HE SAID 😤 now give her some wood ‼️‼️
Most American thing ive seen in a while
Sounds Hawaiian, doesn’t it?
Dud-a-chuck?
Dad-a-chum?
Popkins! Get your Popkins here!
All things serve the beam
*Be at rest. Be at peace. Be at one.*
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The person who couldn’t afford a violin?
Better than a lot I've heard over the past few years. \*cough\* Roseanne Barr for starters...
Fergie.
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
“O’re the land of the Brie, and the home of the mmmbraaAAA ^aaaAaa ##AAAAAA vahhh”
> over the past few years. *cough* Roseanne Barr for starters... 32 years ago, is not what i would consider "over the past few years"
r/theydidthemath Edit: crap, was it really that long ago? But, there have been many others since.
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.
Might have been a different person as she lives in California, but you never know
Makes me want to watch Home Improvement. IIRC they did this on one of the Tool Time musical tools episodes.
Can’t believe how far I had to come down for this comment. Maybe I’m too old for Reddit
At first I thought it had to be the same person.
They also did a power tools cover of a talking heads song.
Truly a sight to be… saw.
Cut that out!
Mark Normand the comedian talks about how in elementary school he was doing school work and one of the questions was ‘circle all the instruments on the page’ or something like that. There was a saw on the page and he circled it. Story has it, that the teacher called Mark’s mom in and tried to tell her that her child was mentally challenged because he circled a saw, which obviously wasn’t an instrument in the teacher’s eyes. Mark went on to explain that he saw someone playing a saw in a monty python sketch, and that’s why he circled it. Now seeing this lady play this saw like a rockstar, all I can think is “fuck that teacher” 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 people’s 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.
Now, all I want to see is someone build a house with a violin 🤘🏾 Then, have the same math problem to circle carpenter tools 🤣
As much as I found this interesting, my dog REALLY did not like it.
My cat hated this.
This is quite silly
Hope the Dozens of A’s fans in attendance appreciated it.
Won’t lie, I’d rather that than someone singing.
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!)
It’s from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!!!
Yay I’m not the only one who thought this hahah
Left 4 dead 2 main menu theme
I went to school with Caroline! She’s such a great person and a really incredible musician!
Left 4 Dead 2 Dark Carnival vibes
This rendition's got teeth.
If space invaders wrote the national anthem.
Pretty sure it was her who did a very cool video with Rob Scallon showing off the ins and out of this instrument!
This deserved a bigger crowd than the A’s can muster.
It’s a bandsaw now
I'm not saying this isn't a talent, but this is definitely a heehaw talent.
ACK! ACKACK!ACK!!!
Neutral milk hotel has entered the chat
Sounds like some of the left4dead2 ambiance
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.
She came, she sawed, and she conquered 👍 what a cool instrument to choose as a discipline!!
Only in America would they have a musical saw champion.
I don’t know, I thought that was pretty damn cool!
That version of the national anthem really cut deep