# My musical, medical anoscope! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360 "2007-04-09T20:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/1 "2007-04-09T20:10:42Z")
Here it is! Only somewhat noteworthy for its size (it’s a Fansler operative anoscope, meant to be used on people under anesthesia), it is far more interesting for its musical abilities! [Making the Music](http://home.wi.rr.com/elfbabe/qadgop/musical_anoscope.mp4) ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/2 "2007-04-09T20:30:36Z")
It’s a ben-wa anoscope! ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/3 "2007-04-09T20:39:58Z")
Somehow this reminds me of the silver bells in _The Polar Express_ that can only be heard by those who believe in Santa Claus. Ooh! Great idea! You can write a kiddie book about this magical anoscope and call it _The Colon Express_! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/4 "2007-04-09T20:43:12Z")
Thanks to you, **Qadgop** , I just now learned there _was_ such a thing as an anoscope. :rolleyes: Have you been drinking? You sound like you’ve been drinking. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/5 "2007-04-09T21:13:00Z")
Nope, he’s just old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/6 "2007-04-09T21:14:27Z")
**Qadgop** , it is my _sincere_ hope you aren’t supposed to play it while involved in surgery… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/7 "2007-04-09T21:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] **Qadgop** , it is my _sincere_ hope you aren’t supposed to play it while involved in surgery… :eek: [/QUOTE] Um…considering where it goes, I sure hope not! NSFW: http:/ /webmedia.unmc.edu/intmed/general/demo/gi/ando2001.htm All I have to say is whomever Hanes is, he should be taken out and shot for dreaming up that position! But it sounds pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/8 "2007-04-09T21:24:55Z")
Sign in lobby: “Ring anoscope to summon nurse.” ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/9 "2007-04-09T22:33:38Z")
I’ve gotten it up on YouTube! It took ages for them to convert it, but [here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMjI-cMn_ag)! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/10 "2007-04-09T23:13:27Z")
Now I’m almost - **almost** , mind you - sad that I work at the other end of the body. That is one heck of an “instrument.” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/11 "2007-04-10T00:29:02Z")
_Silver bells, Silver bells, It’s Qadgop time In the booty._ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/12 "2007-04-10T02:17:22Z")
The musical anoscope sounds like the perfect instrument to use with the [harmonic scalpel](http://www.hemorrhoid.net/harmonic.php). There may be a future for **Qadgop** in composing operating chamber music. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/13 "2007-04-10T02:48:28Z")
I’m picturing a handbell choir… only not quite. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/14 "2007-04-10T03:17:26Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] _Silver bells, Silver bells, It’s Qadgop time In the booty._ [/QUOTE] _Ring-a-ling, I hear them ring Give me some more Versed now!_ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/15 "2007-04-10T03:20:36Z")
[QUOTE=Fetchund] I’m picturing a handbell choir… only not quite. [/QUOTE] An assbell choir? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/16 "2007-04-10T05:01:17Z")
If Santa were a physician, we now know what sort of jingle bells he would have his elves wear. Elfbabe, you might wish to make yourself scarce next Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/17 "2007-04-10T05:14:08Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Um…considering where it goes, I sure hope not! NSFW: http:/ /webmedia.unmc.edu/intmed/general/demo/gi/ando2001.htm All I have to say is whomever Hanes is, he should be taken out and shot for dreaming up that position! But it sounds pretty! [/QUOTE] You think that link is NSFW, check out the videos\* \*REALLY NSFW ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/18 "2007-04-10T12:27:00Z")
i haven’t watched the video yet. Is the anoscope a percussion or wind instrument? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/19 "2007-04-10T13:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Bewildebeest] i haven’t watched the video yet. Is the anoscope a percussion or wind instrument? 😉 [/QUOTE] It’s more like that thing you clean the woodwinds with. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360/20 "2007-04-10T13:53:32Z")
I couldn’t link to it (got a page of odd looking code), but the youTube worked. How very…interesting. What is inside it and why? (do I want to know?) Between that and the Harmonic Knife (anyone else immediately think of Pullman’s Trilogy–this one for adults only?)–I think I’ll stand for awhile… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-musical-medical-anoscope/399360.md?page=2)