Here is an old French music box using the technique:

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I too had one of these as a child ... Of course I was NOT as proficient as this performer though. Like a music box ... hauntingly beautiful =o)

>> ^vaire2ube:




You should submit it.

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ohh! He's seen Musical Box! That's so cool.

Interesting You know, your visit could well have coincided with the time frame I was talking about listening to "And the band played..." in music class. I'm not entirely sure why the band played Waltzing Matilda (but that link might have some clues). In 1918 the real Australian anthem was "God save the King", our current one wasn't chosen until 1974, but I think Matilda has always been popular. The link to Gallipoli is interesting too. After the war, Mustafa Kemal, who had been commander of the Turkish forces on the day of the invasion wrote a tribute to the Australian troops quoted at the Australian war memorial's web site, http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/ataturk.asp

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well."

P.S. I got side tracked and forgot that I meant to send you a link to "I was only 19", another sad Australian ballad about returned soldiers.
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I've known it was sort of the un-official national anthem for Australia since I was little (I was there when I was 9yrs old), so I guess I've always heard it in an Australian voice.
I also had a music box as a child that had Waltzing Matilda as it's song.

How well known it is to others, I don't know. I always seem to be the one that collects odd little facts.

Lol, nice accent, btw.

Cheerio!

I've known it was sort of the un-official national anthem for Australia since I was little (I was there when I was 9yrs old), so I guess I've always heard it in an Australian voice.
I also had a music box as a child that had Waltzing Matilda as it's song.

How well known it is to others, I don't know. I always seem to be the one that collects odd little facts.

Lol, nice accent, btw.

Cheerio!

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(clears throat, puts on posh British accent) Oh, how embarrasing! I've been caught commiting an Australianism!

How well known is that ballad in your parts? I remember listening to it in primary school music class, many moons ago :, so it hadn't really crossed my mind that it might've had much exposure outside Australia... and yet here's an Irish cover and you seem more familiar with another version.
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I have always loved story songs/ballads. That was fun to hear in an Irish accent!

Thank you, btw! Tis what I do. *grins*

sunnies....cute.

1st music box is pretty hot

>> ^JenniferBurger:

bullshit! she beats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.


What? Are you commenting on the right video?

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Yes! I could see him floating around in his stilsuit- putting small animals in his music box and lusting after a buff, shirtless Sting.>> ^KnivesOut:
Reminds me of the Baron Harkonnen from Dune.

I sometimes wonder if I will ever get tired of the Sigur Ros -formula- (music boxes, dramatic crescendos, heartbreaking melodies, etc; etc;)... not today.

Reminds me of when I saw Hard Candy (an old 3D porn) at the Music Box theater with about fifty other theater-goers. The best part by far was a scene where a male actor takes a money shot directly at the camera -- Nearly the entire audience cringed, shuddered, and tried to wipe themselves clean in unison.

Screw that, I wanna know who sets up a music box to play whenever a mouse appears!

>> ^jimnms:
What kind of sicko sets up a camera on a mouse trap?

Nrughh! All these young people with their new fangled arms and their hippity hoppity music boxes! Why in my day....