This Instrument Is Not What You Think 

That song was Auld Lang Syne -- traditionally sung on New Years Eve

This honestly sounds like something that would be in little big planet

That bass melodica has got a great skanky sax tone.I want more!

That was Auld Lang Syne, a Scottish folk song that’s usually sung to commemorate the end of something, like at the end of the year on New Years Eve or at a funeral or at a closing ceremony. Your rendition nailed the vibe perfectly.

Why the hell don’t you make sound tracks for indie games. You would kill it.

I've always wanted to see a "wet-tuned" melodica. It's when each note plays 2 or 3 reeds that are slightly out of tune to produce a chorus effect. It's common in some accordions but I don't know if anyone makes a wet-tuned melodica

Melodicas are great, but yes, this thing is a different kind of beast. As a flute player I appreciate the difference. Thanks for an interesting demo!

The overtones of electric melodicas are great In the moment while playing some big big chords and the air stream is near collapsing... This cannot be simulated, but the usual sounds are mostly quite annoying but i can understand the motivation to work with these instruments

As soon as I saw the word "Andes" on it, I realized it's basically a keyboard actuated pan flute. I've never heard of such a thing, but leave it to you to find one. Pretty cool!

I love my Andes.... Super fun instrument

Auld Lang Syne is what you played.

The first time I saw this instrument was in a PoopPoopFart video (PPF now) who mainly used it for kirby song covers. I fell in love with it in that context but I could never convince meyself to get one.

Love the pedal (moist) and the beehive mmmm mmmm fun! As to your MOD Im thinking stand up the fluit floot flute section and ad some sort of foot pump bellows to the blowie part, so its like a mini foot pump organ

It would be perhaps interesting to mount some (piezo?) pickups on/in it.

That bass melodica sounds really nice!!!!

The little automatic one seems like it could have some potential for 3D printing custom discs. Might be a bit limited, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard for someone that knows what they're doing.

When you decide to go hangout with the bard between quests

Try adding an inflatable bag and turning it into a bagpipe. Maybe add some recorders to act as a drone.

Be careful, there's spammers posing as the channel in the comment section!

SIMON THERES SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE YOU REPLYING TO COMMENTS SAYING PEOPLE HAVE WON A PRIZE AND TRYING TO SCAM PEOPLE OUT OF MONEY. CHECK THE REPLY TO MY COMMENT ON THIS VIDEO AND BAN THEM FROM THE CHANNEL.

_The Go! Team_ have used recorders rather well in a few of their songs like "Get It Together" and "The Wrath of Marcie".

I just noticed in an older video you have a sticker that said "semen the creampie" and i had to pause it to stop laughing. My face hurts.

Add a contact mic, or similar, and bolt on an arduino or raspberry pi and a touch screen loaded up with fx VSTs. Quarter inch jack output and you're golden!

10:00 I was dancing to this. Not proud of it but I won’t apologise either 🌞

Makes everything sound like Yoshi's Island for the 3DS.

“I need to call my Mom.” 😂😂😂

You're a regular Mike Oldfield

Might be interesting to see if you can play the flute keyboard with one of those air mattress or beach toy inflator pump pedals. Not sure if that confers any particular useful advantage or quality, but it could be an idea to play with.

Sounds like happy video game,,, music,,,,or a cartoon❤

Play it through a Leslie speaker

This thing seems like panpipes to me, wondering if you add attachments to make all of them longer and have a deeper sound, because it is painfully highpitched

Ola Englund collab when

There’s so many inappropriate jokes here.

If they make a new Little Big Planet game.... you should be on the soundtrack

Everyone knows that you're a big fan of melodicas because everyone is a big fan of melodicas! It's is physically impossible to be otherwise.

Does it have MIDI?

worse , so much worse lol

It was the 4th grade when all of us cool kids wanted to play the drums or the saxophone or a cool instrument but our parents were broke so we only could afford the flute class. But no matter what we wanted to play music so we didn't care. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

aaah what does the leaver do though!?!?

I would have absolutely no idea how to include those instruments in a track and you did a great job. I imagine the blower motors could be replaced by a bellows which would be a lot quieter. I've never seen that Critter And Guitari sampler before it's crazy.

In big bold Boom Voice "SIMON THE MAGPIE ON HIS WACKY FLUTE ORGAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!"

Version of honer is so much nice

What if you lengthen the tubes

The melodicas are amazing and expressive instruments, they have a lot of potential in good hands and lips but the Andes has a very strident voice and its very hard to control the sound on it, unfortunately we will never see an Alto Andes because of the manufacture price and small public for it. You have a very charismatic channel, good video.

You should try to submerge the flutes in water to create a bubbling melodica.

I also have a couple melodicas and a chord organ or two, but I've never seen a bass melodica. I need one!

PPF used to have one of these

People say I'm nuts for spending $200 on a Korg NTS-2. I think you've got me beat bud. Lol Sounds awesome though. 👌 👍

what if you created some sort of controlled motorized air pump to make it a drone?

It's Auld Lang Syne. Which is actually one of my favorite songs. One of my favorite standards anyway. At most holidays you get cheery music or solemn liturgical laments. But the only mood that fits you when you're drunk on New Years, after the ball has lowered in time square and the numbers have all changed, as the party has passed its apogee and people are milling about, figuring out how they're getting home or coupling off and finding some privacy, is bittersweet. That's just how everyone feels then. And that song just fits. That's why I like that song. You'll usually find me somewhere playing it over and over on an acoustic guitar at that point.

Use that panflute keybed as a start for a mini pipe organ?

Simon the Flautist

I know that song as amazing grace

Thank you for being so invested Simon. Thank you for showing us all the awesomely terrible instruments there are out there, you friggin rock. I might try making one of these lol

They used this instrument for the melody in Gorillaz - broken

MIDI convert it for giggles

I actually have one of those, and the biggest challenge is finding a suitable use for it. The upper half of the keyboard is way too shrill and I can't stand hearing it. I wish they had built it an octave lower ... but doubling the pipe length would make the instrument too big, maybe?

This guy sure can twiddle a knob

I purchased a Suzuki Andes 25 F Flute keyboard a couple months ago, but it came without the two mouthpieces and neck strap that were supposed to be included. Have had no success contacting the company I ordered from. Do you know if the mouthpieces from your keyboard melodicas fits interchangeably with the Suzuki Flute Keyboard? I need a mouthpiece...URGH! I agree.... your melodica keyboards sound much better than the Suzuki

This is probably like blowing into an ocarina, you can bend a lot up and down by varying the air pressure. To play cleanly you need a steady air stream, otherwise it sounds goofy. The Tuneyville piano thing with the records is pure genius, I love it

I wonder if you can make something like a bagpipes bag for the mouthpiece. That way you could maybe use a bellows to add air while you play?

This either sounds like Spongebob, or Dark Crystal.

I feel like both of those toys were from like about the 1970s or so I feel like them melodica flute toy was from the 70s and then there’s the flute melodica piano thingy that I feel like it could be from the 70s or 80s who makes that flute piano toy thing because I want to find one

You're a mad man, Mag pie, and I'm here for it.

I literally bought a melodica today

oooh! hirokazu ando used this on the kirby's epic yarn soundtrack, at the very least on the song whispy's forest

That was Scottish folk song Auld Lang Syne!

It would be cool to hack some kinda rotating valve into it for a vibrato effect

That thing sounds like a slide whistle with keys. Is it the world's smallest Calliope?

2:30 being from a french Canadian background, sounds like the folk song "ce n'est qu'un au revoir" or translated to "its only a goodbye"

It’s like Zamfir and Liberace had a baby…?

when you started playing along with the first song it sounded like a trippy version of Norwegian Wood for like half a second

Add the lights from one time vapes. They have some thing where it reacts to öh luft passi ng though

If anyone can find me a MIDI compatible melodica, that would be ace ❤

Auld Lang Syne is correct, or We're Here Because We're Here

Play it under water. Gotta play it under water

Bro thats what I said haha im back right now sober lol

Oh the bass one though!

In theory you could 3d print your own records for that thing.

Looking into making my electric Melodica have stereo outs and my first thought was "I wonder if like Simon the Magpie or someone has any videos on melodicas"

Design a better a case for it pls, a professional one

its just a shitty recorder with a keyboard. that sound is way to funny

1:35 Did you just do the Spongebob fog horn?

This is your funniest & coolest video in ages…. 😂

Flutes are monophonic, but this is polyphonic so it's cool

Pipe organ

That is so neat

This is friggin fantastic.

Put soap water inside to blow bubbles.

Use an electronic car tyre inflator to power it

Helium!

Cool !

Make all your videos 13:12 long

I'd definitely be interested in seeing a diy version of the flute piano.

Just sounds like a more cute recorder

They are down to $149 now on Amazon.

That song is the Dutch national anthem

I thought it was the Arthur theme at first

I want to buy the flute piano

sounds like yoshi's island