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IAESTE Switzerland
Weinbergstrasse 41
8006 Zürich
Phone: +41 43 244 93 13
Fax: +41 43 244 93 39
Bd de Grancy 37
1006 Lausanne
Phone: +41 21 601 79 93
Fax: +41 21 617 87 79
Lauschuli's Karaoke Bistro
Lauschuli's Karaoke has over 4,000 karaoke songs in 11 different languages (E/D/F/I/Sp/Por/Jpn/Chn/Kor/Phil/Thai). You can walk there in 5 min from Zurich Main Station (Zürich HB) and the closest tram stops are Stauffacher and Sihlstrasse. It is also next to Bahnhof Selnau of the trains; S4 and S10 (Click the map link below.).
What to bring
- Money to buy one drink per person (They won't let you be there if you do not pay as you can imagine.)
- Any mood you have
- Yourself (and good people you know)
Some tips and manners to enjoy karaoke
- You can enjoy singing the songs of your choice in non-smoking atmosphere.
- Since you are not charged for songs you sing, each customer whoever is there should order at least one drink to cover the copyright costs for karaoke.
- Don't get drunk before you sing! Please care for others who hear your song. As long as you enjoy singing in a normal way, there will always be someone who wants to enjoy listening to you, I promise.
- Enjoy other people's singing. Give some hands to the effort and the courage of the singers. Learn some style. Don't even try to criticize the singers from other groups! What kind of better singer do you think you are? Do you think you are someone?
- Don't fight over microphone! There was a very unfortunate case many years ago in Japan where two singers wanted to compete for the same song and one of them had to die.
- Just experience the joy of singing. You will be very surprised with how nice it is to sing. There are two microphones. You can ask someone who knows the song to sing with you.
What if I am not a singer now?
No panic! There are still two ways to enjoy. First, you can be a singer anew. It is simply great. Either you pick up a microphone alone or sing with anyone of your choice. Second, if you want to take it easy, well, just sit back and relax. Enjoy undiscovered talents of your friends and the passion of some of your favorite person(s).
A brief history of karaoke
The biggest Japanese cultural contribution to the world ever, karaoke, was invented by Daisuke Inoue in 1971 in Japan. The original media was a loop of an endless 6.35 mm tape (8 track cartridge tape). 8-track was an innovation of the originally 2-track stereo tape that records 4 songs in parallel. It was revolutionary. Today, as you may know, karaoke equipments keep evolving at each of our living moment to give us even more variety of joy. Mr. Inoue was chosen as one of the most influential 20 Asian persons in the 20th century by Time magazine in 1999 Daisuke Inoue, Time magazine and awarded 2004 Ig Nobel Prize among others. Unfortunately, Mr. Inoue never properly patented his invention. So, he is not able to collect potentially 10 billion JPN per year loyalty..... (Some say he missed to collect some trillions of Japanese yen.).
Some cool karaoke stuff
Karaoke has highly evolved from the original format and spreaded its joy to all mankind. A few examples are;
Vokalod2, Miku Hatsune sings "melody.exe"!
Hollow Man's perfect sky is torn!