Beneath a cloudless blue sky, a small, brown, hairy creature (who for some reason is very naked) sits on the grass and plays a large, long-necked instrument (possibly an oboe, or possibly it is some weirdly modern variant) while others play flutes and the bird equivalent of clarinets and various other brass instruments, and several drummers come up and perform some kind of syncopated beat with their knees.
Frank, please show and/or tell me about the bird equivalent of the clarinet and the tuba
OK, I lied. I lied about that. (And this is a long and not very good post in any case.)
The bird equivalent of the clarinet is actually the calliope. There are many different species of them, ranging in size from “tiny, like a canary” to “large, like an albatross” to “huge, like the arizona trumpeter.” The trumpet-shaped canary is shown in the diagram below (image credit: Wikipedia)
(The big one is the argentine canary. Apparently it eats some kind of insect.)
The tuba is, I guess, kind of a bird, too?
The smallest species, the zitting canary, is about as big as a bantam. There are bigger species, like the pied canary:
But there are even bigger species, like, you know, … the albatross
Like this one, except really big:
Look, it’s a bird with a clarinet in its chest. It’s beautiful.
It gets even bigger if you compare it to the biggest bird: the wandering albatross. (The albatross is “just an albatross” if I may paraphrase one of the great modern ornithological minds.)
I have no idea what it does with its albatross-style clarinet, but it can fly very well and does not have to worry much about hunting food.







