He plays the guitar, tambourine, kazoo, drum, harmonica and bike horn as well as singing! He plays all these instruments and is still able to walk around the city squares he performs in! Also a feature of Photoplayers, a related device meant to not only play music, but provide sound effects when silent films played in the theatre.A feature of Orchestrions (see the article on The Other Wiki), where they are designed to replicate an entire orchestra within them.Some church organs, also, especially late 19th/early 20th C. Basically the whole point of theatre pipe organs (properly called ' unit orchestras').Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window: The titular Totto-chan causes trouble in class when she spots a one-man band under the window of her classroom and calls him over for a performance.He then proceeds to use it to control a zombie Tyrannosaurus rex. The Dresden Files: In Dead Beat, Butters constructs a suit to make himself into a One-Man Polka Band.The Discworld We R Igors Diary 2015 has a bit about a one-man-band who was made "better" by an Igor and can now play the guitar and concertina simultaneously.She still has the old outfit in her attic, and when Sister asks about her past for a school report, breaks it out and performs in it once again for a local adults-only talent show, much to her husband's annoyance. The Berenstain Bears: The Big Chapter Book And the Giddy Grandma reveals that Grizzly Gran used to perform in vaudeville under the stage name "Wanda the One-Bear Band", wearing roller skates and a suit that included a giant drum, a harmonica, a saxophone, a horn and a bell.
#ONE MAN BAND COVER FULL#
Pretty much a Dead Horse Trope these days (except for the very occasional Street Performer), but a Period Piece or Historical Fiction may still have them as background characters or Comic Relief.Ĭompare with I Am the Band, where one musician plays each instrument separately and combines the tracks to sound like a full band.
Of course Rule of Funny says the more instruments the funnier - and of course they're all badly tuned and played with no sense of melody or rhythm, prone to causing the person stuck in such an arrangement to tumble and get tangled in the resulting mess. This can enable one man bands to produce a wider range of instrument sounds than their 19th century predecessors, who had to use heavy mechanical drums, strummed instruments, and wind instruments. A one man band can have MIDI triggers attached to their clothes and shoes, with the triggers causing synthesizer sounds or samples to play back through speakers. In the 2020s, digital technologies have given one man bands more options. (In fact, we have another trope entirely about them.) "At once" is definitely the real key phrase needing to be emphasized here while it's true that, through the magic of overdubbing each instrument one at a time, such musicians as Todd Rundgren, Prince, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney have played all the instruments on some of their albums, we wouldn't refer to any of them as One Man Bands. Some definitions of One-Man Band define it as "being able to play two or more instruments at once." Others say " three or more instruments at once," and some purists even define it as "three or more instruments at once while able to remain mobile while cranking out the jams." To achieve this, complicated contraptions are often needed to play drums or cymbals strapped to the person's back. More common is a simpler set-up, such as a singer strumming a guitar as they tap the beat on a tambourine with their foot. Then do it yourself! The cliche one man band is a Street Musician who has a bunch of instruments creatively strapped all over their body with levers and cables attached to each limb. Say you need some cheerful music to draw attention, but can't find anyone to help you. Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, " Magic Duel"
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