Some church organs, also, especially late 19th/early 20th C. Basically the whole point of theatre pipe organs (properly called ' unit orchestras').Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window: The titular Totto-chan causes trouble in class when she spots a one-man band under the window of her classroom and calls him over for a performance.He then proceeds to use it to control a zombie Tyrannosaurus rex. The Dresden Files: In Dead Beat, Butters constructs a suit to make himself into a One-Man Polka Band.The Discworld We R Igors Diary 2015 has a bit about a one-man-band who was made "better" by an Igor and can now play the guitar and concertina simultaneously. She still has the old outfit in her attic, and when Sister asks about her past for a school report, breaks it out and performs in it once again for a local adults-only talent show, much to her husband's annoyance. The Berenstain Bears: The Big Chapter Book And the Giddy Grandma reveals that Grizzly Gran used to perform in vaudeville under the stage name "Wanda the One-Bear Band", wearing roller skates and a suit that included a giant drum, a harmonica, a saxophone, a horn and a bell.Pretty much a Dead Horse Trope these days (except for the very occasional street performer), but a Period Piece or Historical Fiction may still have them as background characters. (In fact, we have another trope entirely about them.) Of course Rule of Funny says the more instruments the funnier - and of course they're all badly tuned and played with no sense of melody or rhythm, prone to causing the person stuck in such an arrangement to tumble and get tangled in the resulting mess. Some definitions of One-Man Band define it as "being able to play two or more instruments at once." Others say " three or more instruments at once," and some purists even define it as "three or more instruments at once while able to remain mobile while cranking out the jams." "At once" is definitely the real key phrase needing to be emphasized here while it's true that, through the magic of overdubbing, such musicians as Todd Rundgren, Prince, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney have played all the instruments on some of their albums, we wouldn't refer to any of them as One Man Bands. Say you need some cheerful music to draw attention, but can't find anyone to help you.
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