Musical Genius

“	This fish is a musical genius!	”
	— Meryl, The Fish Emporium

Ludwig sings

A musical genius is a fish with musical talent that can be found in the Fish Emporium. They are priced at 30,000 shells, and their additional notes will state that they like singing. Musical geniuses sing mostly classical music and spawn eighth notes when doing so.

Some of the most famous songs sung by musical geniuses are by composers such as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and several others.

Pre-named fish

• Santa - Santa is a pre-named fish that is obtained by purchasing a regular guppy for 25 shells and naming it Santa. Santa sings Christmas songs instead of classical music.
• Ludwig - Ludwig is a blue and black carnivore with sea green fins that specializes in singing songs by Ludwig van Beethoven.
• Kilgore - A violet ultravore that intimidates other fish by playing the music of Richard Wagner. The only song it knows is Ride of the Valkyries.

Occurrence

Assuming January 1st of 2019 is day 1 and December 31st is day 365, fish with the musical genius attribute are available from The Fish Emporium on days that end in a 5 or a 9 as in 5, 9, 15, 19, and so on.

Fish Songs

Musical geniuses may play any of the following songs after every 5 feedings.

Composer	Song	Length	Extended
Bach	Fugue in D Minor	0:15	3:31
Bach	Toccata in D Minor	0:08	0:58
Beethoven	Fifth Symphony	0:12	0:36
Beethoven	Fur Elise	0:15	n/a
Beethoven	Moonlight Sonata	0:20	0:52
Beethoven	Ode to Joy	0:12	n/a
Chopin	Minute Waltz	0:16	1:04
Chopin	Polonaise "Heroic" Op. 53	0:11	0:48
Grieg	The Hall of the Mountain King	0:23	1:03
Grieg	Morning Mood	0:12	1:26
Joplin	Maple Leaf Rag	0:14	0:41
Joplin	The Entertainer	0:17	0:31
Khachaturian	Saber Dance	0:18	1:02
Liszt	Hungarian Rhapsody #2	0:16	1:18
Mozart	Turkish March	0:21	0:48
Rimsky-Korsakov	The Flight of the Bumblebee	0:16	0:33
Rossini	William Tell Overture	0:09	0:50
Tchaikovsky	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy	0:23	n/a
Wagner	Ride of the Valkyries	0:20	n/a
	Camptown Races	0:10	n/a
	Greensleeves	0:13	n/a
	O' Susanna	0:11	n/a

Gallery

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Trivia

• Occasionally, after four regular songs, fish will sing an extended version of one of their songs, prompting an unseen audience to applaud at the end.
• Startling a fish by tapping the glass will cause them to stop singing their current song, even fish that are not startled like ultravores and ball fish. This also occurs after being punched by Walter.
• This attribute is the most common among pre-named fish, with a total of three out of six fish having some ability to sing.
• In-game playback uses the sounds of a marimba.
• In-game playback is transposed one semitone lower than the actual notation. However, Fish Song players play in the correct key. The most efficient way to circumvent this is to convert the Fish Song files into MIDI files (which will also play in the correct key), and to emulate in-game playback, use a music notation software (e.g. Musescore) and change the instrument (sound) to Marimba, but this is outside the game.
• A possible way to correct in-game playback is to rewrite the Fish Song files one semitone higher, but this method is time-consuming, and Fish Song players/MIDIs will play in the wrong key instead.