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Youtube adds vuvuzela button

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I had assumed that the "Vuvzela button" would feed the audio through the bandpass filter that got rid of vuvuzelas.

A great way to celebrate World Cup, and the victory v. Viacom =)

Yep. Going to find some of their videos now to see if I can vuvuzela them :)

Well it makes competitive Starcraft more exciting. (I kid!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ1IUQRTtNw#t=5m40s

Anyone know if you can enable the vuvus with a query string?

hacked together a little vuvuzela bookmarklet and chrome extension last week fwiw

http://github.com/jgv/Add-Vuvuzela

Coincidence that xkcd also has a vuvuzela-related comic today? http://xkcd.com/757/

Um, vuvuzelas have been a running joke since the first world cup match. Given that it's still World Cup time, I wouldn't call that coincidence so much as them both making the same popular joke.

That's a air horn, not a vuvuzela.

If you hover over the comic, then some more text appears which mentions vuvuzelas.

I had never heard of a 'vuvuzela' before just now. So true is the saying 'you learn something new every day'.

I dont see what the fuss is about. the sound of football matches is still annoying, horns or not.

Oh my gawd, I didn't realize they were SO OBNOXIOUS!

What determines the frequency of the hum? is it tube length, or characteristics of the vocal chords or something? I ask because I can just see someone trying to make the hum span the audible frequencies, so it can't be filtered.

It is like a bugle or any of the brass instruments. The tone produced is dependent on the vibration of the player's lips as well as the length of the tube.

I haven't played one, but I'm sure you could play numerous overtones like you can on a bugle.

They seem to be mass produced, resulting in most of them having the same length. That, along with the fact that the average sporting fan probably doesn't have much embouchure, would explain why there's a single tone that is much louder than any others.

Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics, has an article in New Scientist explaining how they make their noise.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19041-what-makes-the-s...

This is awesome. +1

Jeezuz, HN. Just because a sport isn't American doesn't mean it's "intellectually gratifying".

Edit: Oh FFS, bring it on. I'm gonna post Terrible Towel videos and watch how fast they get killed.

It's not about the sport, it's about youtube.

right.

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