Yeah.....

I reck'n Prince has played one of these more than a few times.....

Each picture is worth a thousand words.....

MACHINE GUN BASS

Musical saw!




I actually had a band with a musical saw player!

Now that sounds like a fun band theSpark.....

Ever throw a few of these in?

The dulcimer actually makes a beautiful sound.

Now try bringin' this one onstage or into the studio....

It's called a windform and it's 6 meters or 20 feet long.....

is there a sound of that somewhere... ????

or a diy kit....

groovyiau said:

I'm sawry....I got your hopes up, and now I can't deliver....

But you may be able to see it for yourself if you're ever in the area...
Here's where it can be seen.....

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston,Tas. Aust.

dlirious said:

I would love to see/hear someone play this.

So ya gonna tell what that thing is groovy?
[Edited 8/30/06 10:22am]

THIS IS NOT a pic of guitstoopid!

This is called the chapman stick, there are several different versions of it
But I thought this picture would be fun for this forum.

These are , in a nut shell, 8, 10 or more, string guitars and bass's in one funkified instrument. You "Tap" it or play it kinda like a Piano in your lap, or standing up as so perfectly pictured

groovyiau said:

The Bonang

One of the lead instruments in Javanese Gamelan music.

The Bonang is composed of a double-row of horizontally mounted tuned bronze kettle gongs and is usually played with two padded beaters (tabuh).

This bonang belongs to the Southern California band "Monkey C" who play their own brand of Alternative Gamelan

guitstoopid said:

and....

Bass Stick

Another "virtual instrument" from the imaginations of Animusic.

This fretless bass was inspired by the Chapman stick, a multi-string instrument that is played by slapping the strings with hands and fingers. The Animusic Bass Stick has only one string and uses self-playing round hammers to pound out funky riffs.

Both the graphics and the music are entirely digitally synthesized. Virtual instruments are invented by building computer graphics models of objects that would appear to create the sound of the corresponding music synthesizer track.

How about "The Gas Tank Orchestra", which I think
probably speaks for itself....

What is that dlirious?

The one and only

dlirious said:

Actually what I was asking is..."what is that instrument?
[Edited 9/3/06 18:59pm]

the Schediphon(trombone/euphonium)

Double the pleasure ^^^^^

Yesterday I came across this instrument....



It's a Mayuri from 19th century India.....just kinda wondering what it
looks when someone plays it?

Beautiful instrument...

obsessed said:

It reminds me of the French horn..
an instrument I played in high school.


the Mayuri is beautiful.
It looks like you practically have to lay down to play it though

I'm trying to "see" French horn in that pic...not happenin' for me....

Violin was my high school instrument....they wouldn't let me in the band
where I wanted to be...said I didn't have the right kind of mouth, whatever
that meant...anyway they sent me right over to the orchestra teacher and
seeing as how I played violin in junior high, he put me right back on it..
Not my choice, especially since I was a lousy violin player...the orchestra
teacher soon figured that out....

He was happy I'm sure when I joined the acappella choir the following year
and dropped orchestra....choir was much better.

Sawry, I got off on a tangent here....must be a touchy subject for me...

So, were you a good French horn player?

Yup, those feathers could tickle the underarms I'd think....

obsessed said:

<-----this area

obsessed said:

I thought so in the begining
After one semester I realized it wasn't going to work out.
I became interested in the Bass Drum.
this instrument worked out much better.

and I was good at it

tony23k said:

That's what I didn't understand about the band for me...I couldn't figure
out why I'd need the right kind of mouth for a drum...