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Mozart's "The Magic Root Beer Bottles"

Posted at 11:13 AM on February 4, 2010 by Rex Levang
Filed under: Fun finds

Here's a YouTube clip that's currently making the email rounds.

I give this guy a lot of credit, not just for his musical and production chops, but also for not choosing one of the same old classical favorites that gets re-arranged over and over(William Tell, Hallelujah Chorus, Fur Elise. . . .) Actually I give him credit for what he did choose--a section of the Magic Flute overture--since in that opera, panpipes appear, and the instrument that he's playing on is, in effect -- well, just take a look.