From the History Channel...Star Trek Auction...
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From the History Channel...Star Trek Auction...
Forgive me if someone has already posted this here.
I was watching the History Channel, and they had a documentary about Star Trek and the 3-day auction at Christy's of all props, costumes, models, etc., related to the show.
The flute/whistle that Picard "played" in two episodes, with its box, went for $40,000. They showed a few seconds of Patrick Stewart commenting about the flute, and said, "It doesn't play, it's not a real flute."
Just a bit of flute/whistle trivia. If the History Channel plays the show again, the flute is shown in the last half hour of the 2-hour show.
Lost
P.S. The large model of the Enterprise from Star Trek-The Next Generation, went for $500,000.
I was watching the History Channel, and they had a documentary about Star Trek and the 3-day auction at Christy's of all props, costumes, models, etc., related to the show.
The flute/whistle that Picard "played" in two episodes, with its box, went for $40,000. They showed a few seconds of Patrick Stewart commenting about the flute, and said, "It doesn't play, it's not a real flute."
Just a bit of flute/whistle trivia. If the History Channel plays the show again, the flute is shown in the last half hour of the 2-hour show.
Lost
P.S. The large model of the Enterprise from Star Trek-The Next Generation, went for $500,000.
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Re: From the History Channel...Star Trek Auction...
Next you'll be telling me the phasers didn't really stun either. Dang.Lost-in-North-Dakota wrote:They showed a few seconds of Patrick Stewart commenting about the flute, and said, "It doesn't play, it's not a real flute."
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Re: From the History Channel...Star Trek Auction...
It's ok. Really.dlovrien wrote:Next you'll be telling me the phasers didn't really stun either. Dang.Lost-in-North-Dakota wrote:They showed a few seconds of Patrick Stewart commenting about the flute, and said, "It doesn't play, it's not a real flute."
Who needs phasers?
Every part of the ship from the engines all the way down the to spoons and the toilet seats could be programmed to emit a particle beam.
We don't need no stinkin' phasers.
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Here is the flipside:Brian Lee wrote:I think THIS sums it all up nicely.
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?f ... erThanKirk
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Looking closely at the whistle he played, it actually looks like a well-decorated Clarke. The straight, angled fipple looked just like it; however, for the Inner Light theme, it actually sounds like a feadog or generation from some of the distortion inbetween some of the notes in the higher register that are reminiscient of manufactured whistles.
Here's a nice montage/music video someone made of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUKsNM15W0
Here's a nice montage/music video someone made of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUKsNM15W0
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Recorder? You mean like that thing Milli Vanilli used? That's so 80's! But they weren't allowed to show fipples on TV back then anyway, so that's why they went with that little feral flute thing or whatever. Anyway, that show sucked after Dr. Smith got kicked off over that thing with Penny. Good thing it turned out OK with the obelisk and everything. Cool show.The Weekenders wrote:Yah, that Capn Kirk really played the recorder in that Star movie thing. Yeah. Goood tune too. Sounded like the Aran Boat Song, but not as good.
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Quite a bit more about it all here: http://users.pandora.be/geert.bonte/tre ... flute.html
I just tried playing along with a couple of the links on this page on a D and it does not work. I seem to remember when I was looking into this some time ago that it's actually on an Eb on the show. I will have to try that tomorrow.
There are several versions of the song out there....
I just tried playing along with a couple of the links on this page on a D and it does not work. I seem to remember when I was looking into this some time ago that it's actually on an Eb on the show. I will have to try that tomorrow.
There are several versions of the song out there....
The keys for the first four audio links on that page are Eb, D, Eb, D. Set your phasers on 3rd octave D though (i.e., to kill).BEC wrote:Quite a bit more about it all here: http://users.pandora.be/geert.bonte/tre ... flute.html
I just tried playing along with a couple of the links on this page on a D and it does not work. I seem to remember when I was looking into this some time ago that it's actually on an Eb on the show. I will have to try that tomorrow.
There are several versions of the song out there....