Tell me some thing blasphemous and/or sacrilegious

[fzer0@nerdculture.de]

@catsalad

π is exactly three!

[leeloo@c.im]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad
Someone's gotta post a picture of a Somali pirate with an accordion.

[moin@gruene.social]

@catsalad
I downloaded a church

[adam_wysokinski@fediscience.org]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad I've got a theory here: accordions, like opsin genes, were invented at least twice, separately. When the golden age of piracy was gone, the memories of accordions were repressed since strongly associated with socially unaccepted piracy-related aggression and violence. Hence, no trace in later history. However, they re-appear in movies as a great example of an archetype in Jungian shared unconsciousness. Anyone recall other social groups playing accordions? I'd like to develop my theory further.

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@AccordionBruce

A #Chronoclasm

(Which IIRC is the title of a #JohnWyndham #SciFi short story in The Seeds of Time which defined the term.)

[owlor@meow.social]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad It fucks me up knowing that the bodhrán was invented in the 19th century, cus it feels like something that must have been around forever.

Granted it does depend on who you ask, there are people who insist it's ancient, but I think it's a question of how rigorously you define it. Like frame drums are probably older than dirt, but we're talking about a specific type of frame drum.

[mamalake@beige.party]

@catsalad we are all god

[jeanniewarner@wandering.shop]

@davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad Concertinas are still 1835 ish. Now, I haven't found anything on the variations of the nearly 4,000-year-old Chinese version. https://concertinamusic.com/timeline/

[boredomfestival@sfba.social]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad next thing you know you'll be telling me Nero didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad in my heart there is a well-armed Somali pirate who dreams of duets with Weird Al, playing his accordion walking along the coast at sunset.

[boredomfestival@sfba.social]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad Neal Stephenson made a similar mistake in the Baroque Cycle: a character is killed by being stabbed with the endpin of a cello. Aside from the fact that this wouldn't be very effective structurally (the endpin is not robustly attached), the endpin didn't *exist* before the mid1800s (prior to that, the cello was held tightly between the legs, as the viola da gamba is today). A musician friend of mine wrote to Stephenson about this, (politely) pointing out the error. He told me that he received a reply, which read: "AAAARGH!"

[spartan_1986@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad What's the difference between Jesus Christ and the Pharaohs?

The Pharaohs had the good sense to put gold in their tombs to distract corpse buggerers.

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad On the other hand, a Samurai could have seen a fax image of one

[sellathechemist@mastodon.social]

@AccordionBruce @catsalad The accordion displaced the bagpipes (in their many variants) across Europe, pushing them to the margins - mountain valleys (Appenines, Pyrenees) on the mainland or islands (Sardinia, Ireland. Scotland).

[sinvega@mas.to]

@Theosoreass @AccordionBruce @catsalad (black sails theme intensifies)

[matthewskelton@mastodon.social]

@Theosoreass @AccordionBruce @catsalad noone would believe that the hurdy gurdy was a real instrument

[janstice@hachyderm.io]

@BoredomFestival @AccordionBruce @catsalad Nero might or might not have fiddled, but could have played the pipe organ…

[ignaziop1977@mas.to]

@leeloo @AccordionBruce @catsalad hegseth or trump with an accordion would work as well, but I have no desire to see their faces other than behind bars

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@Jeanniewarner @davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad

Yes, the concertina was the invention of Sir Charles Wheatstone, patented 1829, public launch 1835, so Tom the cabin boy couldn't have used one to play the Trumpet Hornpipe for Captain Pugwash[1] on The Black Pig. 3:O(> There were lots of competing designs, so as with computers: "Any student of the concertina has to choose between ten incompatible operating systems."[2] 3:O))>

[1] Pugwash is coeval with this moose!

[2] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-concertina-celebrating-sir-charles-wheatstones-invention-at-kings

[jeanniewarner@wandering.shop]

@Cadbury_Moose @davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad Thought you might enjoy reading about the Chinese one from an earlier millennium.