Rackett consort David Munrow

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • A consort of Renaissance racketts played by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London from the Reed Instruments episode of 'Early Musical Instruments'.
    It is performed by the Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow. It is from a UK TV series 'Early Musical Instruments', broadcast in 1976. It consisted of six half-hour episodes, each devoted to a family of instruments, this being from the Reed Instruments episode - others being Recorders & Whistles, Brass, Keyboard & Percussion, Plucked Strings and Bowed Strings.
    The whole series of six episodes is available on a fully licensed DVD from: www.davidmunro...

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  • @epikur394
    @epikur394 10 месяцев назад +203

    If you want to lure ducks, this is your instrument of choice😂

    • @rickwilliams967
      @rickwilliams967 7 месяцев назад +2

      Right? Not sure what people are enjoying about this.

    • @currysues
      @currysues 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@rickwilliams967lol, a singing duck quartet?

    • @hansleeuw2840
      @hansleeuw2840 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@rickwilliams967 It is quite a distinctive sound wouldn't you agree? I always enjoy hearing new sounds.

    • @NathanEllisBodi
      @NathanEllisBodi 7 месяцев назад +3

      Only Tudor ducks though.
      It's like a Chanter that's gone through puberty.

    • @oldboy9267
      @oldboy9267 6 месяцев назад

      it has a pleasantly unique, warm tone@@rickwilliams967

  • @formerastronaut
    @formerastronaut 7 месяцев назад +72

    "And here's some guys playing the Final Fantasy victory music on some pepper-grinders."

  • @barrypoupard7009
    @barrypoupard7009 Год назад +32

    A very dense sound. Well now we know the origin of the "making a racket expression".

  • @romanninjaprincess4477
    @romanninjaprincess4477 Год назад +27

    Yeah imma be sharing this with people, this is an awesome instrument

  • @theusher2893
    @theusher2893 7 месяцев назад +5

    Can we take a moment to appreciate their astounding coordination

  • @CanisCalligulis
    @CanisCalligulis 6 месяцев назад

    What a surprising delight these rackets are! Nice sound!

  • @TschimmiCash
    @TschimmiCash 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great! Thank you!

  • @jamiehobbs3750
    @jamiehobbs3750 2 года назад +5

    Incredible!

  • @MrShoryuken1
    @MrShoryuken1 6 месяцев назад

    Well, now I know what instrument they used in the old BBC Hobbit radio production...

  • @christophmunch4796
    @christophmunch4796 7 месяцев назад

    Hilarious! How they make these sounds totally seriously! Could be out of a comedy show. Adding to this impression is the repetitiveness of the piece and that they go into sort of a "swing" feel at the end (which sounds as if they try to swing but fail)!

  • @organatron
    @organatron Год назад +6

    Caro Ortolano

  •  4 месяца назад +1

    Les Kazeaux Deluxe!

  • @BrookeNina-r2n
    @BrookeNina-r2n 15 дней назад

    Thomas Kenneth Jackson Linda Anderson Thomas

  • @MsMsmak
    @MsMsmak 6 месяцев назад

    Monty Python sketch material.

  • @Z-Ack
    @Z-Ack 6 месяцев назад +1

    I imagine this is what is played for midget wrestling when they’re walking to the ring…

  • @humblebees_
    @humblebees_ 7 месяцев назад

    floppy disk drive

  • @karlrovey
    @karlrovey 7 месяцев назад

    Not quite as buzzy as a Krummhorn consort.

  • @PRH123
    @PRH123 6 месяцев назад

    Unprecedented level of unsuccessful attempts at juvenile humor amongst these comments.

  • @someGuy-os3kg
    @someGuy-os3kg 6 месяцев назад

    I bet women fell at their feet back in the day.

  • @robertwilson123
    @robertwilson123 7 месяцев назад +331

    David Munrow who took his own life at the age of 33 in 1976, made the outstanding contribution to understanding and recording early music of his age. David brought a lost musical medieval past to life...a past which is the basis of all current European music. His collection of instruments went to the Royal Academy of Music and he was recognised when NASA Voyager took a recording of an early music galliard into space for eternity.

    • @brendancoburn427
      @brendancoburn427 7 месяцев назад +22

      I remember being watching his programmes on the Open University, when I was a young teenager. He triggered an interest in me for Early Music, and I have never forgotten him.

    • @ZacHawkins42
      @ZacHawkins42 7 месяцев назад

      Selfish prick, I hope his family found some closure.

    • @art2liv4
      @art2liv4 7 месяцев назад +7

      Sad, but thanks for the lovely racketts.

    • @dgolfere-wgt5194
      @dgolfere-wgt5194 7 месяцев назад +2

      any idea why he done that?

    • @art2liv4
      @art2liv4 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@dgolfere-wgt5194 Why does anyone? Bio on Wikipedia.

  • @MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr
    @MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr 7 месяцев назад +137

    when you upgrade the kazoo to an actual woodwind

    • @Macvriendin
      @Macvriendin 7 месяцев назад +5

      I think it's not a kazoo, al though the sound is quite similar. In a kazoo you have to sing yourself on 'huh' sound to make a melody. This racket has finger holes that create the melodies.

  • @АнтонМан-ч9к
    @АнтонМан-ч9к Год назад +147

    My old printer does sounds like this

    • @mason11198
      @mason11198 Год назад +14

      how much to buy it off you LOL

    • @yepiratesworkshop7997
      @yepiratesworkshop7997 7 месяцев назад +6

      My first wife used to fart like that.

    • @alphabeets
      @alphabeets 7 месяцев назад +2

      😂😂

    • @germansnowman
      @germansnowman 7 месяцев назад +2

      In that case, I recommend the Device Orchestra channel.

  • @johnsrabe
    @johnsrabe 7 месяцев назад +133

    I think they’re playing Henry the Eighth notes.
    Thanks. I’m here all weeke.

    • @andro4384
      @andro4384 7 месяцев назад +8

      all weeke 😂😭🙈😩

    • @nmbygodsgrace
      @nmbygodsgrace 7 месяцев назад +4

      Stellar comment! Thanks man…I needed the laugh!

    • @GuitarUniverse2013
      @GuitarUniverse2013 7 месяцев назад +3

      remember to tip your waiters

    • @johnsrabe
      @johnsrabe 7 месяцев назад

      @@GuitarUniverse2013 Mine scroll is for sale in the gifte lobbye.

    • @terryreknaw6152
      @terryreknaw6152 6 месяцев назад +1

      😂👍👍

  • @Microtonal_Cats
    @Microtonal_Cats 7 месяцев назад +148

    I was going to go to sleep but now that I've heard 4 guys playing lute music on duck calls, I have questions.

    • @yepiratesworkshop7997
      @yepiratesworkshop7997 7 месяцев назад +6

      They do sound better -- and dress better than the Duck Dynasty guys.

    • @charliespinoza1966
      @charliespinoza1966 7 месяцев назад +8

      That is a devastatingly succinct description 😆

    • @homestead.smallholding
      @homestead.smallholding 6 месяцев назад +2

      The preview of your comment said "I have a quest.."

    • @yorganyog
      @yorganyog Месяц назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂 I don't agree but your comment is the best and undertstandable 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @TalkingWeirdStuff24
    @TalkingWeirdStuff24 10 месяцев назад +49

    I didn't know a Rackett was an instrument until about 5 minutes ago when I had this video recommended while searching for videos of Bass Shawm music (y'know, like you do on a Saturday night at 9pm), and I am already very fond of the Rackett. Pretty song and it was nice to see a whole quartet: just watching their differences in posture was interesting. Also, this good man uses the word sepulchral: these are the kinds of videos I live for, truly.

  • @Microtonal_Cats
    @Microtonal_Cats 7 месяцев назад +52

    I've listened to this video about 10 times today since I found it. Lovely on its own. Also would be a great fanfare for the entrance of a drunken king in a Woody Allen movie.

    • @rickwilliams967
      @rickwilliams967 7 месяцев назад +1

      Lovely is a strong word.

    • @hansleeuw2840
      @hansleeuw2840 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@rickwilliams967 What is it with all the haters of that instrument's sound? Lovely is a subjective term. It is not on you what another person's subjective appreciation is, especially regarding a sound so clearly removed from the main stream. I personally like the large number of overtones without the nasality that a hobo can have giving it a strong emphasis on the consonant chords that are played.

  • @saggerhead
    @saggerhead Год назад +292

    To me, this sound is sublime. I wish rackett consorts were as common as Starbucks

    • @antippas
      @antippas Год назад +42

      I wish Starbucks were as common as racket consorts.

    • @RenaissanceEarCandy
      @RenaissanceEarCandy Год назад +17

      That's definitely the best sentence I've read all year.

    • @MA-naconitor
      @MA-naconitor Год назад +5

      Then you wouldn't want to live in Andorra

    • @TalkingWeirdStuff24
      @TalkingWeirdStuff24 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@antippas Maybe we can get a trade going? With who or what I don't know, but there must be something out there that can strike this deal!

    • @ian.mikyska.94
      @ian.mikyska.94 7 месяцев назад

      @@MA-naconitor What's the Andorra connection?

  • @avenuex3731
    @avenuex3731 7 месяцев назад +4

    It’s sounds like your bagpipe has a cold.

  • @Pocketfarmer1
    @Pocketfarmer1 9 месяцев назад +13

    As a child ,being noisy and boisterous, my mother would occasionally say ,” stop that awful racket.” Little did we know it was an instrument! Much like bombardment came from bombards before canons existed .

  • @skulengu6854
    @skulengu6854 Год назад +19

    It sounds to me like a baritone kazoo. But admittedly, I sort of like it for it’s oddness.

  • @oscah_whisky
    @oscah_whisky 7 месяцев назад +22

    When they went into compound time, I really started groovin'!!!😄

  • @synthdude
    @synthdude 6 месяцев назад +7

    0:39 I believe that's Alan Lumsden. He was one of my lecturers at Middlesex University years ago. Top bloke, into Early Music big time. I think he was in the London Serpent Trio.... Didn't appreciate it at the time, glad he's preserved here 😎

  • @randomexcessmemories4452
    @randomexcessmemories4452 Год назад +31

    I simply adore the sound of a rackett, and these medieval musical instruments are so incredible to hear!

  • @Thrillrider10
    @Thrillrider10 Год назад +29

    It sounds a little bit like the crumhorn, but with a much fuller tone. Very unique sound.

  • @stephenrivera4382
    @stephenrivera4382 7 месяцев назад +18

    I just LOVE the sound of Racketts and Crumhorns!

  • @shellyspiano
    @shellyspiano 7 месяцев назад +21

    LOVE it - Thank you. I had the privilege of meeting David Munrow when he came with the Early Music Consort to Kingston Art College (UK) where I was studying, in about 1970. James Bowman was one of their number - his lovely deep speaking voice the opposite of his sublime counter-tenor one. He is still one of the best, in my opinion (and he sadly left us last year). Munrow was lovely and it is believed the loss of his father was a contributory factor to his suicide. Tragic.

    • @LMB2301
      @LMB2301 6 месяцев назад +1

      So sad to hear about James Bowman. I saw him in concert many years ago, he had a sublime voice! I still listen to recordings of him. May he and David Munrow rest in peace.

    • @shellyspiano
      @shellyspiano 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@LMB2301 For me, James Bowman's voice is still one of the very best of the counter tenors.

    • @annabelwaterfield6108
      @annabelwaterfield6108 4 месяца назад +1

      James was wonderful, both as a singer and as a person. Everyone's got a James story, and they're all nice.

    • @shellyspiano
      @shellyspiano 4 месяца назад

      @@annabelwaterfield6108 Indeed☺

  • @iwokeupthismorning2
    @iwokeupthismorning2 7 месяцев назад +4

    Sounds a bit like heavy metal guitars, or I guess that’s the other way around 😅. Seriously this video is super interesting, a gem to have people gathered together to beautifully share this music. And so well executed. A time machine somehow

  • @sapper82
    @sapper82 Год назад +29

    I used to love David Munrow's Pied Piper back in the early '70s. A huge loss to the musical life of our country.

    • @GuildensternTube
      @GuildensternTube Год назад +4

      for the world

    • @ankavoskuilen1725
      @ankavoskuilen1725 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@GuildensternTubeYes, for the world. I am from the Netherlands and I was a huge fan! Still am, come to think of it.

  • @russbetts1467
    @russbetts1467 Год назад +21

    Nice to see David Munrow again. I saw him in London, shortly before he died. Such a waste of an amazing musician.

    • @johnwaine2332
      @johnwaine2332 7 месяцев назад

      I too saw David Munrow at a concert in London shortly before his death.

    • @nathanielsnyder7396
      @nathanielsnyder7396 7 месяцев назад

      surely tragic on some level to lose someone so young in that fashion, but how could anyone who has seen this series-especially someone who saw him play in person-call it a waste. he gave what it was he had to give, and it’s still enriching lives to this day. hardly a waste.

  • @bendenisereedy7865
    @bendenisereedy7865 7 месяцев назад +2

    Listen to a 70s British band called Gryphon if you like this sound.

  • @thesoundsmith
    @thesoundsmith 8 месяцев назад +2

    i find the timbre very kazoo-like. I love the sound of may medieval instruments: sackbut, crumhorn, theorbo,etc This is not a favorite. Musicianship top-notch, tho.
    Can we talk about RICO charges for Racketteering? 😉-

  • @adrianrosenlund-hudson8789
    @adrianrosenlund-hudson8789 Год назад +13

    What a wonderful sound

  • @AlexHamlinMusic
    @AlexHamlinMusic Год назад +12

    1:23 it starts to get real greasy.

    • @forveillelier
      @forveillelier Год назад +1

      What?

    • @RenaissanceEarCandy
      @RenaissanceEarCandy Год назад +2

      ​@@forveillelierI think he means that's when it really kicks in

    • @aleksanderweiss6835
      @aleksanderweiss6835 Год назад +8

      @@forveillelier I think he means that's when they really bring the mustard

    • @forveillelier
      @forveillelier Год назад +2

      @@aleksanderweiss6835 the best part

    • @CriticalofOnions
      @CriticalofOnions Месяц назад

      This is the part where the drums would play half time and people start slamdancing methinks

  • @michaeldeloatch7461
    @michaeldeloatch7461 7 месяцев назад +5

    Never was more aptly named any instrument on this planet. 😆 (Spoken as a lifelong David Munrow fan BTW.)

  • @Luqmaninbmore
    @Luqmaninbmore 11 месяцев назад +6

    I got to play one of these for a semester in college. Didn't get a chance to perform with it, though.

  • @andrejshamin1452
    @andrejshamin1452 7 месяцев назад +1

    Вау, какой необычный характерный звук. Сразу возникает ощущение больших каменных залов, гигантских каминов и нарядной толпы в средневековых одеждах.

  • @OrionAerospaceKSP
    @OrionAerospaceKSP Год назад +19

    What a rackett!

  • @michelnagumaqmorton
    @michelnagumaqmorton 7 месяцев назад +6

    Awesome ! thank you , I make flutes for over 27 years and its the first time I see and or hear these , wow !

  • @virtuosomaximoso1
    @virtuosomaximoso1 6 месяцев назад +1

    Music professor slams open the door. What is all this racket? Looks around, ohh never mind.

  • @JuliaGarbe1
    @JuliaGarbe1 10 месяцев назад +7

    One of the best videos on RUclips

  • @readthetype
    @readthetype 7 месяцев назад +1

    Why is there no such thing as a 80s metal band that plays only these?!? Humans are stupld.

  • @robertbate5790
    @robertbate5790 8 месяцев назад +3

    I cant say I've heard of the instrument, but the sound is quite familiar. Used a lot in medieval music to films etc.

  • @jacktar9567
    @jacktar9567 8 месяцев назад +24

    love the Rackett & all early music.... RIP David....a sad loss to us all❤

  • @samucam7589
    @samucam7589 6 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine being beheaded in for stealing a chicken in medieval times and this is the last thing you hear

  • @nickjanczak9665
    @nickjanczak9665 7 месяцев назад +3

    Medieval kazoos!

  • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
    @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 7 месяцев назад +2

    I saw these guys play during The Summer of Love at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Great show, great acid test...

  • @joe1hundred
    @joe1hundred 7 месяцев назад +2

    we making it out of the dark ages with this one! 🔥

  • @jock-of-ages73
    @jock-of-ages73 6 месяцев назад +1

    Algorithm is particularly random tonight!

  • @davivify
    @davivify 7 месяцев назад +1

    Lovely, um, Rackett. How did we not know about this, essentially, double bass kazoo?

  • @CJ4S147
    @CJ4S147 7 месяцев назад +1

    These chaps are making quite the racket and one wonders if there is any correlation between the figure of speech and the instrument. One of the coolest and most useless bits of new information I’ve gotten in a while is exactly what this auditory cross between a bagpipe and a coronet actually is.

  • @francescobasta4725
    @francescobasta4725 7 месяцев назад +1

    Could the gentleman with the black jacket by Andrew van der Beek, whom I met at the Lacock seminars he used to organize in the 1990’s ?

  • @swamihuman9395
    @swamihuman9395 7 месяцев назад +3

    - Those guys made quite the rackett! :D

  • @therandomchannel9373
    @therandomchannel9373 Год назад +7

    Literally listening to this on repeat

  • @letMeSayThatInIrish
    @letMeSayThatInIrish 7 месяцев назад +1

    So glad I don't live in the renaissance.

  • @darrenhirst9900
    @darrenhirst9900 Год назад +5

    It sounds like the kazoo I love the sound.

  • @tcuisix
    @tcuisix 7 месяцев назад +1

    Sounds better than harpsichord

  • @Doug791
    @Doug791 7 месяцев назад +1

    Is this an unseen Monty Python sketch ?

  • @Londonfogey
    @Londonfogey Год назад +4

    Bloke on the right looks like a young Bill Nighy, before he wore specs.

  • @Tetsugakusha75
    @Tetsugakusha75 7 месяцев назад

    This instrument looks like a tiny Alexandria Lighthouse.

  • @duelenigma7732
    @duelenigma7732 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'll have the cakes and ale . Thanks

  • @yepiratesworkshop7997
    @yepiratesworkshop7997 7 месяцев назад +1

    Damn, these guys can give Duck Dynasty a run for their money.

  • @marcbrasse747
    @marcbrasse747 7 месяцев назад +1

    Now we know where the saying comes from!

  • @FunnyBecauseItsTrue
    @FunnyBecauseItsTrue 7 месяцев назад +1

    ...what's all that rackett?

  • @jddrew1000
    @jddrew1000 3 месяца назад

    Ohhhhhh so THAT'S what that sound is. I've heard it in Renaissance recordings but couldn't figure out what it was. Never cared for it lol

  • @joedee1863
    @joedee1863 7 месяцев назад

    Man ! This music is so dull it would make flowers wilt.
    How about some rock N roll played on these big kazoos ?
    Maybe Queen's number " another one bites the dust" 🤪

  • @DeadKoby
    @DeadKoby 5 месяцев назад

    Fun.... I wasn't expecting it to sound that cool.

  • @GuitarUniverse2013
    @GuitarUniverse2013 7 месяцев назад

    I thought on my rock 'n' roll musicians took their own lives but this is really sad… I find these oddball instruments fascinating. These rackets sound like someone playing music in unison through a very large comb.

  • @petezah2686
    @petezah2686 7 месяцев назад

    Reminds me of the soundtrack from Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles on Nintendo GameCube.

  • @AaronGlenn88
    @AaronGlenn88 6 месяцев назад +1

    Power kazoos

  • @TheRightONe-et3gh
    @TheRightONe-et3gh 7 месяцев назад +1

    is that Monty Python?

  • @EC-xc9gy
    @EC-xc9gy 7 месяцев назад

    PDQ Bach kazoos.... were accurate sounds?? Was there a bike whistle, too!?

  • @rickwilliams967
    @rickwilliams967 7 месяцев назад

    Must be from Alabama. Sounds like a goose getting boned. And I don't mean in a butcher shop.

  • @camthesaxman3387
    @camthesaxman3387 Год назад +4

    Sounds like a low pitched kazoo.

  • @eddigsdiscoveries1332
    @eddigsdiscoveries1332 19 дней назад

    It almost has a flute like quality in the mid to upper register. Very silky sounding.

  • @666toysoldier
    @666toysoldier 3 месяца назад

    Eventually, someone discovered you could get the same sound with a comb and tissue paper.

  • @awesomenesssquash
    @awesomenesssquash 7 месяцев назад +1

    this shit slaps

  • @yorganyog
    @yorganyog Месяц назад

    I love the sound and melody. I woukd to design and 3d print some and be advised also. Who could help me?

  • @Steven.T.Y.
    @Steven.T.Y. 7 месяцев назад

    They're playing giant multiphonic duck calls...

  • @rubenskiii
    @rubenskiii 2 месяца назад

    This is important. Very important.
    I need 5 hours of this.
    _My Lord, be it thy i heareth?_

    • @rubenskiii
      @rubenskiii Месяц назад

      I keep coming back to this ever since i discovered it!

  • @Sp3ktral22
    @Sp3ktral22 3 месяца назад

    I would love to hear a Drum and Bass flip on this! Now that would be sublime.

  • @Station_Master_13
    @Station_Master_13 7 месяцев назад

    I imangine it could sound extra funky if u tried, like a medieval sax

  • @kenholt2487
    @kenholt2487 7 месяцев назад

    To me, those sound very much like krumhorns, except maybe a bit richer.

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something 7 месяцев назад +1

    Reminds me of the music from old PC games.

  • @AntiEstablishmentRhetorician
    @AntiEstablishmentRhetorician 7 месяцев назад

    It's one thing to hunt foxes. It's another to wear a dead fox on your head. Shame on David Monrow.

  • @Dulcian_14
    @Dulcian_14 25 дней назад

    The Rackett Is My Favorite Instrument

  • @simongross3122
    @simongross3122 7 месяцев назад +1

    Brilliant! Where can I get some?

  • @themagicboy6548
    @themagicboy6548 7 месяцев назад

    looks like they're blowing into collapsed telescopes

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier 7 месяцев назад +1

    I must be ignorant. I’ve never heard of these instruments. Amazing.

  • @OfficialWorldChampion
    @OfficialWorldChampion 7 месяцев назад +3

    i love the piece

  • @lukehebert6207
    @lukehebert6207 2 месяца назад

    This is what an Egyptian house cat monarch hears when walking into the throne room