Happy Super Mario manualism music day
by Kyle Orland 
{ Dec 15th 2006 at 2:50PM }
We here at Joystiq were reluctant to do a Super Mario music day for much the same reason we hesitated to do a Tetris music day until last week. While there are hundreds of amateur videos of people plunking out the theme on guitar or piano, most of them are nothing special. But then we stumbled upon a trio of Mario themes done in a musical form that erased our ennui and have new life to the familiar ditty:Hand farts.
Technically called manualism, the method of making music by farting air out through your hands is apparently a dying art. We're still not entirely convinced all of the below performances are real -- heck, some of us can't even get the slightest toot from pressing our hands together, much less compose a whole song. Still, even if they're bogus, we feel the mere fact that someone went to the trouble of pretending to do the Mario theme in hand farts is worth noting. Enjoy!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lolza @ Dec 15th 2006 3:24PM
You gotta be shitting me
ryan @ Dec 15th 2006 3:06PM
the first one was good, the last two sound more like queefs'
Jess Q. @ Dec 15th 2006 3:18PM
I... Totally thought that image was of something else.
*steps quietly away*
christian @ Dec 15th 2006 3:31PM
bad thoughts jess, bad thoughts are now corrupting my mind!
moominsean @ Dec 15th 2006 3:59PM
the keyboard player in the third video is as happy as a little girl...
Mr. Khan @ Dec 15th 2006 4:34PM
lol, because "manualism" is an unfortunate nervous habit of mine, so i tend to do the same thing
Make Music
Mr Paul James @ Dec 15th 2006 5:11PM
I think the first guy is clearly just using his mouth to make rasberrys. You never see his face, but you can see his chin / neck move.
gnooly @ Dec 15th 2006 5:21PM
Weird Al has been using the talents of "Musical Mike" Kieffer since his first album. You can hear him on the beginning of "Eat It".
Sad that I know that...
burn @ Dec 15th 2006 6:53PM
ive totally seen this kind of thing before, its totally for real.
hand-farts, the best thing ever
Royale @ Dec 15th 2006 9:12PM
waste. of. time.
??? @ Dec 15th 2006 9:18PM
This version will get you into the holiday spirit:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8771550464105596795&q=rudolph+manualism
will @ Dec 15th 2006 11:31PM
Yeh "Musical Mike" Kieffer has a full on solo in weird al's headline news song...
Probably sad sad that I know that too...
Chris Brentano @ Dec 15th 2006 11:49PM
Wow, that's pretty advanced.
Dumdum @ Dec 16th 2006 4:58PM
HAHAHAHAHA