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Musical Body Parts
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In old movies, whenever you see a pair of women's legs in stockings getting out of a car, it's a safe bet they'll be accompanied with a smoky saxophone solo. When they show a skeleton on a childrens' show, odds are good they'll be playing xylophone music to go with it. But what instrument should you play when the earlobe is the bodily part under consideration? And how about the pancreas? This game is an attempt to address the issue. Either suggest a bodily part, and the music to go with it, or just the part, or just the instrument, and see if the colelctive wisdom of this forum can help out.
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Castanets, I'd say. They kind of sound like the click-clack sound of grossly overgrown toenails hitting on a wood floor. Now how about the prostate?
A garden hose with a trumpet mouthpiece inserted, this being about as sensible as the prostate. The larynx?
Ocarina? Uvula?
A viola perhaps. This one should be easy- the eardrum?
That's easy. Ringing in the ears with a Tamborine, but what about the vagina?
Cello. Beecham (it is said) once remarked to a lady cellist thus (or roughly thus): "Madam, you have between your legs something that has fascinated the minds of men for generations and all you can do is sit there and scratch it!". Who here plays the Armpit?
The French horn. How about the spinal cord?
That's a Gamelan if I'm not mistaken. I'm not so sure about the Collar Bone
A Ukranian Bandura, I think- it's curve resembles that of a collarbone. But how about the Stapes bone?
A 1/10th scale violin. Skin?
The one-stringed fiddle has a suitably thin, stretched tone.

Are we running out of parts? The brain has to be the mighty Wurlitzer ascending from the cinema pit, with fifteen manuals, three pedal boards, a vast array of stops and couplers, and played by the mad organist whose brain it is. Little does he know that he is merely providing commentary for the pictures on the screen, not creating them.

We may not be running out, but I think we've covered all the bases, pretty much. Bones, joints, limbs, organs, have all been well-represented. Ah, here's a new one: the coccyx.
A Pushtu rabab fits the bill. The pegboard at its one end resembles the point of the coccyx. How about the nasal sinuses?
The Duduk fits the bill perfectly. How about the lymph nodes?
Something pretty obscure, obviously. And as the lymph nodes are intimately related to the immune system, I suspect something wierd and mysterious. Perhaps the Great Stalacpipe Organ? On which note, b'dum tish, I think we should finish this game off.
Audience
shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Simons Mith
The hurdy-gurdy (it plays all of two notes) . . .
The appendix. Used in the middle ages and renaissance, but not so useful anymore. The appendix, is theorized to have been useful in the past, but now is a vestigial organ. But what about the Lute? Will this question bear fruit?
The Lute - why, the uvula, obviously! Now, it's time to tell me why
An instrument should be used to accompany a thigh!
A Cuica. A squeaky chafe-y sound... Some people claim it sounds like a chicken. Mmmm Chicken thigh. How about nose hair?
Jew's harp? (Rather late, I admit, but that one just came to me while I was browsing this old game.)
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