[Sarisberie] THUNK!

[Sarisberie]

I didn’t see him die. But I heard his head hitting the bucket.

This is my first ever OAATP (One At A Time Please) so I don't know if it will work. Could someone link to, or define, OAATP rules here as I can't find them? Thanks.

[doriana_]

OAATP rules

Is he a H/A/M? H/C/M? an animal?

[Sarisberie]

OAATP rules

Is he a H/A/M? H/C/M? an animal? H/A/M

[BalinTheDwarf]

Is the bucket a real, physical bucket?

[Sarisberie]

Is the bucket a real, physical bucket? No.

[JenBurdoo1]

Was he beheaded?

[GalFisk]

Did his head hit the bucket before he was killed? During? after? Long after?

[Sundowner64]

Is he still alive?

[Sarisberie]

Was he beheaded? Yope

Did his head hit the bucket before he was killed? During? assume this after? Long after?

Is he still alive? no & FA

[GalFisk]

Was he ever alive?

[trebor2]

Did you hear it in person?

[Sundowner64]

Is (or was) he a real person? fictional?
Is this a theatre play?

[Sarisberie]

Was he ever alive? no

Did you hear it in person? yope-ish... can you reword?

Is (or was) he a real person? fictional? this
Is this a theatre play? otrt, explore

[GalFisk]

Is it film? Video? Game? Pretend? Radio play? Audio book? Book?

[Sarisberie]

Is it film? Video? Game? Pretend? Radio play? Audio book? Book? none of these...

[Sundowner64]

A piece of music?

[GalFisk]

Visual art? Auditory art? Performance art? Participatory art?

[trebor2]

Podcast?

[Sarisberie]

A piece of music? yes

Visual art? Auditory art? as in, 'a piece of music', then yes Performance art? Participatory art?

Podcast? no

[GalFisk]

Did you hear a recording? A broadcast? A transmission? A webcast? Something else conveyed electronically?

[trebor2]

Is some instrumentation (like a drum hit or pounding a low chord on a piano) meant to evoke the image/sound of a head hitting a bucket?

[Sarisberie]

Did you hear a recording? A broadcast? A transmission? A webcast? Something else conveyed electronically? no

Is some instrumentation (like a drum hit or pounding a low chord on a piano not these...) meant to evoke the image/sound of a head hitting a bucket? but yes

[GalFisk]

Is the sound made by a percussion instrument? Stringed? Woodwind? Brass? Electronic?

[Sundowner64]

Is this a classical piece of music?

[Sarisberie]

Is the sound made by a percussion instrument? Stringed? yes, plucked Woodwind? Brass? Electronic?

Is this a classical piece of music? yes

[Sundowner64]

Is this a classical piece of music? yes
Then I guess I know what it is and will stay out for the rest.

[BalinTheDwarf]

Did you hear it as part of a live performance?

[trebor2]

Is our goal to figure out the specific piece of music?

Is this part of a symphony? Opera? Was it composed by Rossini? Tchaikovsky? Mozart? Beethoven? Wagner (ugh)? Liszt? Handel? Bizet? Puccini?

Is it also known for its use in cartoons? Is it based on the French Revolution? Another set of events known for beheadings?

[Sarisberie]

Is this a classical piece of music? yes
Then I guess I know what it is and will stay out for the rest.

Did you hear it as part of a live performance? yes

Is our goal to figure out the specific piece of music? See below...
Is this part of a symphony? yes Opera? Was it composed by Rossini? Tchaikovsky? Mozart? Beethoven? Wagner (ugh)? Liszt? Handel? Bizet? Puccini? no to all, but many of these are in the same era
Is it also known for its use in cartoons? No, might you be thinking of Rossini's William Tell Overture being used in Bugs Bunny? Is it based on the French Revolution? Another set of events known for beheadings? no

OK, you've solved the puzzle, it's all over bar the shouting, so...

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Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique' features a scary fourth movement, 'March to the Scaffold', in which the composer imagines himself being taken to the scaffold to be beheaded. Just before the fanfare at the end of that movement there is a moment - played pizzicato (plucked) by the strings - where you can hear the composer's head falling into the bucket. [at 6:22]

Well done to everyone, hope that worked as an OOATP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598i8b3HGrw

[Biograd1]

I don't think I can hear anything that sounds like a head (really anything for that matter) falling into a bucket. There is the loud bang on the drums at 6:25, but before that all I hear is woodwinds.

[Sarisberie]

I don't think I can hear anything that sounds like a head (really anything for that matter) falling into a bucket. There is the loud bang on the drums at 6:25, but before that all I hear is woodwinds.

yes, just at the end of the solo oboe at 6.25 (not 6.22 as I said previously, sorry) there is a sudden bash on the drums. Immediately following that is a strings pizzicato (i.e. plucked) in an octave. Then there is the drum roll. The pizzicato sound is the head falling into the bucket.