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« on: November 29, 2014, 01:33:59 PM »

Thought it might be interesting to start a weird instrument thread.

I'm fascinated by Eastern music and recently saw a

. I would love to play one and the concept seems cool, as it does challenge a lot of fundamental structures for Western Music; but something about this seems kind of gimmicky to me. Don't know, maybe I'm just threatened by it. I do like the idea of being able to bend up/down to notes with a keyboard though. 

seems like a unique electronic alternative, with the downside being that it isn't acoustic.
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2014, 02:38:57 PM »

the fluid piano looks like they merged a piano and a guzheng/koto into one instrument. Which is really cool.

This blew my mind:


(keep watching)
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2014, 03:34:08 PM »



The Blaster Beam
is a big, weird custom instrument that Jerry Goldsmith used for the score of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2014, 04:32:38 PM »









https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Gu0qDAys0
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2014, 04:46:39 PM »

apparently this thing was used by florian fricke of popol vuh to create the



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'It was a large, ancient Mellotron-type instrument that had been designed by some crazy instrument builder,' Renate explains. 'For every key on the keyboard he had made a tape of that note which had been sung by a real choir

http://www.popolvuh.nl/pvchoir
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« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2014, 08:24:24 PM »

Some of my favorites.

aslatua: many names for these across West Africa




kou xian: some of these have up to 7 blades




udu: tricky to mic properly, so videos don't often make clear the strange, deep, liquidy tone of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj28nNaamB0

hulusi: three-pipe flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAh-Yp27hm4

otamatone: no comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLB70G-tRY

armonica: invented by Ben Franklin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEKlRUvk9zc

nike music shoes: performed by HIFANA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyFL_ZKgTaQ
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2014, 02:23:45 AM »

I would love to have one of this:

Hang:


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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2014, 10:57:00 AM »

Most of these honestly seem like unnecessary reinventions of the wheel that end up really just being other instruments with a different skin.
Some of them still sound cool though.
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2014, 12:12:42 PM »

Most of these honestly seem like unnecessary reinventions of the wheel that end up really just being other instruments with a different skin.

such as?
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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2014, 12:57:50 PM »

Never unnecessary, Torchkas.
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« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2014, 01:57:28 PM »

Such as the finger steel drum and the piano mandolin.
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« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2014, 03:30:11 AM »

Most of these honestly seem like unnecessary reinventions of the wheel that end up really just being other instruments with a different skin.
Some of them still sound cool though.

I'd say in art its ok if you reinvent the wheel. This is not engineering
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« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2014, 07:55:25 AM »

Such as the finger steel drum and the piano mandolin.

that's 2, not "most"
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« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2014, 08:01:32 AM »

I was talking about those recently "invented" ones anyway. Not the african and oriental instruments.
As I said as well, some of them are pretty cool.

Also:


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« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2014, 12:40:22 PM »

Interesting sound generation principles:

caxixi: two-material (basket/gourd) shakers: since one material is loud and the other quiet, you can get varied rhythms by changing the orientation of the instrument even if the shake remains completely steady




hurdy-gurdy: stringed instruments that produce sound by rotation of a resined wheel against the strings




nail violin: friction-based idiophone, same principle as the musical saw or armonica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moIQAikuueU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBeyKi9dEKc

aeolian harps: stringed instruments played by wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BQ_KeSfW4

hydraulophone: a class of instruments (flutes, reeded instruments) that use water flow instead of airflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVTcv7t_iCU

NB: The hang is a pretty significant departure from the steelpan -- they have in common being struck, pitched idiophones made of metal, but even leaving aside the difference between hand percussion and mallet percussion, they're different kinds of resonators.  The hang is typologically more like an udu, and plays more like one, although it's made of the same stuff as, and tuned using similar principles to, a steelpan.
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« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2014, 05:54:18 AM »

If you have a DAW, you might be interested in the Klanghaus VST samples-based. It's homemade instruments in the tradition of German industrial experimental music but could be used in OST's such as Limbo for example:
http://www.bestservice.de/en/klanghaus.html
The lenghty promo video is quite interesting:




Or you can just go to your local tools store and go in the style of Einstürzende Neubauten early years  Wink


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« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2014, 01:49:20 PM »

These are all fascinating and inspiring; thank you for sharing.  Also wanted to include the

.  Would love one but they're SO expensive.
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« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2014, 06:42:24 PM »

You can find some real gem on this thread, some of them are REALLY interesting!

One I love is the Bazantar, created by Mark Deutsch:


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