Japanese band plays ‘William Tell’ overture with toy train and bottles, internet in awe

While musicians have often produced melodies with glass bottles Xylophones, taking the sonorous science to a whole new level, a group of Japanese musicians created the William Tell Overture with a toy train and bottle combination. As many as 130 members from the AKB48, an all-women Japanese idol theatre—band group recreated the most popular overture of Guillaume Tell, from Gioachino Rossini's is one of the 39 operas who practised the complex bottle notes on the piano first then aced it with a toy train and bottle placements. 

In a 45 second footage shared by Rex Chapman on Twitter, which has now accrued close to 1.5 million views, the AKB48 group achieves the magnificent percussion tune in one of Japan’s biggest pop acts. First, one of the band members resonated with the tunes on the glass bottles, following which, a runaway toy train trails in the middle of glass bottles causing overture’s musical notes in succession. The clip was originally aired on Japanese TV in 2017 and was shared on Facebook page Dynamite Music, and has once again resurfaced. “How do you tune bottles,” the music center wrote in the caption.

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Overture a 'musical magic'

“When you fill a bottle with water, its mass increases, which makes it vibrate at a slower speed. The slower vibrations create slower sound waves, which our ears listen as a lower note,” the center explained. Further, it added, “The bottles in this video would have each been filled to an exact level and it would have taken ages to set up.” I think you’ll find it’s the Lone Ranger theme tune,” a commuter wrote, appreciative of the group’s talent. Sharing another similar video, in which a man can be seen roll blading alongside strategically placed bottles, a commenter wrote, “Slightly different approach.” Many others shared spectacular footage of the technique calling the group’s overture as “musical magic”.

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