It was very satisfying when I got a hold of him. It was his daughter, and I said I have to get a hold of him. Called his work, no-one answered there, but suddenly I found another number on the address. I called a number which I found for that address. After scrolling a bit back and forth I found it. I went on street view and compared it to the original car picture. Then I found this road and thought this must be it. So I went to Google Earth, I put in HГёgehaug and made a 600 meter circle around it. One of the pictures was from inside of the car and it showed a reflection on the window of the GPS. So on this forum I managed to filter all his posts, and I found one with some images. But he didn't have any contact information, no e-mail, nothing, and I had to get a hold of him like today, because it would be too late tomorrow. For some reason the guy had listed up his studio equipment. I searched for the instrument name and only Norway, and found a guy, just a username on a BMW forum. It's work that I enjoy doing, but it was nerve wrecking at the same time. And then suddenly I realised itвЂ™s not coming in time. We bought it and we scheduled the shoot in Morocco. I remember one of you tweeting about trying to find one. But we were thinking of playing the fancy midi toot. It wouldn't make much sense to play it really. And it doesn't have the same sound as on the soundtrack. Yeah you can play it as an oud, but it wouldn't sound good. I'm a bit of a musical instrument nerd so I really love that. There was some heavy engineering to do there. But we had it made down at the music store. We had some different suggestions, but we ended up with a combination of an oud and a trombone I think. Then we started thinking: what does he do? Well he plays the toot of course. That was just something I thought about at that time. I think BГҐrd and Christian were sitting at the office, talking about this legend, and I came into the office and said 'oh, that's Mr.

I just wanted to make a song about a mystical figure. Write some lyrics, we'll do this, we'll order in some pizza and some beers.вЂќ They just put their life on the shelf and we made another song. We'd planned to go home, but they said вЂњthis is cool, let's make this song. But with these guys, we were working on Trucker's Hitch or something, and then we just started jamming on another song. Norwegians are traditionally very much like 'ok, we'll work tomorrow from ten to four and I have this appointment where I have to go'. TootДЇrom the 5 August 2015 interview with Ylvis Suomi: The video cuts to him playing in front of an adoring audience, the new incarnation of Mr. Toot runs away in disgrace, a young boy finds the discarded toot and begins to play it.

The audience walks out and leaves him facing a sea of empty seats.ДЄfter Mr. Ibanez he discards his hat and robe, changes into a sleek white suit and ties back his long hair behind a screen before debuting his new look and sound. He pitches his toot out the window of a tower and orders an electric guitar. Toot becomes jaded due to his success and decides to trade in his traditional instrument and costume for something more modern. The sound of it has a hypnotic effect on the residents of the city, who throng the streets to dance and cheer for Mr. The toot he plays is revealed to be a peculiar combination of an oud (Middle Eastern string instrument) and a trombone. Toot has long hair and and a beard and wears a distinctive tall, red hat. Toot is played by a heavily disguised BГҐrd. The video is set in Istanbul (actually Morocco) and features Vegard as the narrator of the action. Victoria Hanna - Adir AdirimДЄdir Adirim, the song Mr Toot is based on. As the song says, 'Though you can kill the man, you can never kill the toot.'Д«alkan Beat Box feat.

However, his discarded instrument is found and a new Mr. Toot's ego and he rejects his classic instrument in favour of something more modern, a 'fancy MIDI toot' (an electric guitar with a MIDI processor.) He changes his name to 'Mr Ibanez' and holds a concert featuring modern music, a smoke machine and laser lights. When he plays from the rooftops of Istanbul, the entire city stops to dance to his irresistible rhythms. Toot, the master of a mysterious instrument called a toot. The song features solo vocals by Vegard, who narrates the cautionary tale of Mr. They also added a synthesizer bridge in the middle of the song that was not in the original. Ylvis used the song Adir Adirim by Israeli group Balkan Beat Box as the base track, and wrote new lyrics about the 'legendary music man' of Istanbul, Mr.

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