Interesting Instruments
Posted on: Mon, 04/07/2008 - 22:23
Interesting Instruments
Here's a few examples of some interesting or unusual instruments I've come across.
Chapman Stick - Fretboard tapping instrument:
Haken Continuum Fingerboard Midi Control Surface (and check out the modular synth behind him):
Guitar made from a shovel:
Got any more?
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I've seen the Chapman Stick before but never a shovel hah. keep looking for some more of these and post them as you find them this is too cool.
Here are a couple of different ones
Groove On!!!
I played a stick 4 two weeks when a friend of mine went out of town and left it with me. It was when it first came out and was very cool ! I was just starting to get sum great stuff going when he took it back. It was like a whole band - the drums, way fun !
http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable
The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà , Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
A digital Midi Controller for percussive sounds, nicely shaped and handcrafted:
http://www.zendrum.com
3 string bass I made out of stuff some one paid me to haul off when I was cleaning their yard. The strings are weed eater line , the tub has a bunch of bullet holes in it, the neck is a piece of 1 and 1/2 inch pipe with bolts for tuners!
That's really cool! Aside from anything else, I could never possible play in tune something like that. I need the frets! I'm not sure if it's in standard tuning, but you're in tune with yourself. :o) Maybe I should get out my weed whacker and see if I can make some noise. Love it!
Yep it's standard tuning ,but maybe not exactly 440 I just tuned it by pig ear. A D G I didn't have enough weed wacker line for the E or I would have made it a 4 stringer . I have a 4 stringer made out of the redwood from my front porch remodel ,but am having a hard time with the bridge piezoelectric pickup(hums a lot). I'll have to upload a pic of it. It's scale is 54" I think double bass is 42" and the steel one in the video is 46". I have 2 home made violins but I don't have any pics of them. One is solid body and the other is traditional construction ,but not traditional looking and is a 5 stringer (low C extra like a viola )