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March 2

Long-shot song identification

Hello all, this is a really difficult question.

Can anyone tell me what song plays in the background of this clip? (For the record, the two hosts are listing all the home runs hit in MLB that night.) The melody of the background music starts at about 0:55, and the song is looped in the background. For the record, I've heard the song played elsewhere, on ESPN I believe, but I haven't been able to locate those recordings.

I would be greatly impressed and appreiciative if anyone could provide any information.

User:Heyoostorm^_talk! 14:52, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having a REALLY hard time hearing it, but perhaps it's a theme from This Week in Baseball a popular highlight show that ran for a long time. --Jayron 32 16:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I can't hear it, but I'm absolutely certain it isn’t the theme song from TWIB. Seared into my brain. --24.76.103.169 (talk) 18:30, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, were you saying it isn't a theme from TWIB? Thanks to both of you for replying. User:Heyoostorm^_talk! 23:07, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely neither the opening or closing theme from TWIB. Some sort of nondescript jazzy number which they're talking over. I didn't listen to it all the way through, because there's only so much of those two clowns I could take, but it's definitely not one of the TWIB themes that I remember, which are the perky opening number "Jet Set" and the dramatic closing number "Gathering Crowds". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:50, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is the difference between a guitar and a ukelele?

Some sites say its the size, but a guitar and a bass guitar have different sizes and arent different instruments, an bass saxophone and a tenor saxophone will have different sizes and aren't different instruments. They talk also about different tunings for the string, but I can tune my guitar strings with a different tuning and this wont be inventing a new instrument.... 2804:7F2:68C:C9BA:9918:266A:7CA0:F8B5 (talk) 22:08, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would start by reading our articles guitar and ukelele. Off the top of my head, the ukelele is generally smaller than the guitar, has four strings instead of six, and its strings are tuned quite differently. --Thomprod (talk) 02:36, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that a bass saxophone and a tenor saxophone "aren't different instruments". It's not just about size, but also about range and timbre, for example. You can play really low notes on a bass sax that can't be played on a tenor sax. Even where the ranges overlap, the same note, e.g. a middle C (C₄, c′, ca. 262 Hz), will sound completely different when played on a bass sax than it will on a tenor sax. ---Sluzzelin talk 09:06, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The OP's basic premise is flawed. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:53, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, unless we want to talk about why it has a distinct name. I think it would be news to many popular music fans that the guitar and bass are not different instruments, but we can agree that they are still quite similar and share a common ancestry, as it were, and so could broadly be considered different "kinds of" guitars. It's right there in the name. But a uke is not often called a "ukelele guitar". Matt Deres (talk) 14:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

However, the history is not always straight-forward. The modern bass guitar was developed as an electric instrument, the first really successful bass guitar was the Fender Precision Bass, which was designed along a common design philosophy as the other Fender solid-body electric guitar, and the acoustic bass guitar really came along later, like the 1960s,; while there was some influence from "bassy" guitar instruments such as the Guitarrón mexicano, it really comes along later than the electric bass. The P-bass was essentially designed to replace the Double bass and not any guitar-like instrument. So, if we look at the history it really goes double bass --> electric bass guitar --> acoustic bass guitar. Which you would not have guessed based on the history of the standard 6-string guitar. --Jayron 32 15:23, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization is a tricky thing; there are often some edge cases that don't easily fit into any categorization scheme. Modern stringed instruments are often put into "families" based on things like common construction methods, etc, so (ignoring electric instruments for a second) you can get things like the Violin family (violin, viola, cello, double bass, etc.), the Lute family (including Lute, Oud, Bouzouki, etc.), and the guitar family, including baroque guitar, vihuela, acoustic guitar, and yes, the ukulele, in the sense that "guitars" written broadly usually include instruments with a flat back, sound hole, fretted neck, etc. (but then again, are Ovation guitars lutes because they have a rounded back?). Ukuleles have a distinct name because of the differential history from the instrument that evolved into the modern dreadnought guitar, but they have a common history and common construction techniques. --Jayron 32 15:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly, bass guitarist Jonty Banks of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (the only member of that ensemble who does not play a ukulele) calls his instrument a 'bass ukulele', as it has four strings like a ukulele (and unlike a guitar). I saw them play live in concert once though, and it is clear he does this for comedic purposes. Turner Street (talk) 12:01, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are 4-string guitars too. See tenor guitar, the most famous player of which was Eddie Freeman. --Jayron 32 12:47, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While my ukelele gently weeps. --Lambiam 21:32, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]