# Farting in Key

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farting-in-key/260636>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 20, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farting-in-key/260636 "2004-08-20T01:46:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farting-in-key/260636/1 "2004-08-20T01:46:20Z")

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Is there a way to control the pitch of a fart? Would it be possible to fart out a song? For example “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farting-in-key/260636/2 "2004-08-20T02:09:02Z")

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Didn’t Cecil do an elaborate report on a Frenchman who had a dynamite farting act in the late 19th or early 20th century?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farting-in-key/260636/3 "2004-08-20T02:10:46Z")

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[You won’t believe that Cecil covered this!](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394.html) While you didn’t know that he did, it more properly belongs in CoCC. So away we go…

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**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farting-in-key/260636/4 "2004-08-20T12:22:59Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> [You won’t believe that Cecil covered this!](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394.html) While you didn’t know that he did, it more properly belongs in CoCC. So away we go…

There is a British film

> **[Le Petomane (Short 1979) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271609/)**
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> Le Petomane: Directed by Ian MacNaughton. With Leonard Rossiter, Madelaine Bellamy, John D. Collins, Michael Cronin. The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonations with his self-described...

starring the late, great Leonard Rossiter as M Pujol. Unfortunately it does not appear to be available anywhere, although it has been, ahem, aired on TV in the UK at least once.