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QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
no, its not size,
and its not weight, that way lay 
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QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Not-so-bald-eagle Posted Jul 19, 2009
an instrument of torture
piocking it up might be easy but 'playing' it.....
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 19, 2009
I cannot recall the name of the instrument for the moment. It may be 'melodiphon' or somesuch. It is the instrument that you wave your hands in front of, and 'sounds' issue from it.
If you try picking it up to play it, it screams like a tortured cat!!!
You can only play it by, as I said, moving your hands NEAR it!!
GT
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
you old dark horse you
TING.
correct +3 you play it by moving your hands near it, making it difficult to pick up and play at the same time
points for the name
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jul 19, 2009
But you also don't pick up a lot of other instruments to play them. I don't see why they don't count.
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 19, 2009
Ah one of those! 
Bill Bailey uses one to hysterical effect aping the BBC News! 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6322151172263809254
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 19, 2009
GOTTIT!!
It is called a Theremin!!!
GT
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
this instrument is played by NOT touching it with both hands
large instrument you dont pick up are usually to heavy to pick up, yet you still put your hands upon them to play them.
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
TING. +3 theramin
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
+1 bonus point for anyone that can provide the next line of the title....???
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 19, 2009
Think lil got that, Post 10 Taff!!
GT
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
thats right lil did get it, i missed it in the glee of awarding a
lil +1
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
thats right lil did get it, i missed it in the glee of awarding a
lil +1
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 19, 2009
Taff!!
Good Q, by the way. Not many have heard of that wierd beast!!!
GT
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 19, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzEBLa3PPk
"That's one way to shift a piano...."
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
can't link now but i assume it's
TEA...tea mr. shifter..........OOOoooookkkk!!!!!!
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 19, 2009
I don't know why I remember this I used to collect cards of the monkeys and apes that starred in the PG tips commercials. (Brooke Bonde - the spy had a blonde wig, I see to remember.)
I'm sure the back of the cards had these little snippets on and the one for Mr Shifter was something about the chimp had been trained on a real piano and refused to play on the hollow one they dropped down the stairs.
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 19, 2009
Correct, Clive!!
How they finished the commercial eescapes me!
GT
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 19, 2009
i'll give you a +1 for that clive
QI - Dad! do you know the piano's on my foot?
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 19, 2009
Not a QI?
Damn. 
Fair enough.
I'll take that challenge. *puts on his Gyles Brandreth hat and scarf* (you recall the epsisode with the Gerber child on the baby food, I presume?)
The removal men - had a dirty little secret - one of them was a girl! 
Further more the chimps names were Sue and Mickey, and they were owned and trained by Molly Winifred Badham,who founded Twycross Zoo.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/molly-badham-397930.html
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