Totally Bizarre Instruments
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Topic: Totally Bizarre Instruments
Posted By: James Lee
Subject: Totally Bizarre Instruments
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:06
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Just a bit of fun...post some examples of the strangest musical gear you've run across. A chance to rob unsuspecting sites of bandwidth and amuse your friends! My first offering, what I think of as the perfect prog axe: http://www.edromanguitars.com/featured/expensive/wood_950.jpg"> ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:10
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arf arf! that's a killer guitar. looks like the unlikely progeny of the tree at the end of Sleepy Hollow and the prow of a galleon from Pirates of the Caribbean. Can you imagine the tap-esque moment when whatever addled axe-hero ordered that thing attempts to swap guitars with a roadie mid song heh heh. |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:13
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:13
| ah well it was an ibanez triple neck 2 sixes and a 12 http://www.engadget.com/entry/5955275649663618/ - http://www.engadget.com/entry/5955275649663618/ |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:16
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:20
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stupid but I've always wanted one of these - it's a Rush thing
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:22
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that's a sweet one! I wonder why they didn't mention multi-neck paragon Rick Neilsen:
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:25
didja ever see that one with 12 necks he had done - sort of a sun and it's rays type of affair - 
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:27
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:28
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can I post this one?
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:30
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Oh, we have a contender for ultimate prog guitar: |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:32
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No!!!!! I wanna Wangcaster. That's the funniest guitar ever
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:34
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??? Brian Eastwood Guitars rule!
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:36
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http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/page9.html - http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/page9.html speechless...just love the guy's work. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:39
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The Botar - designed to be played with a bow!!!
http://www.dramm.de/botar-ge.htm"> |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:46
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 13:50
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 21 2004 at 21:03
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Nice, but they missed a golden opportunity to incorporate the volume and tone knobs into the overall design ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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arcer wrote:Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: November 22 2004 at 05:02
 Oh stop it! ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Wizard/TRueStar
Date Posted: November 30 2004 at 15:39
| Please explain to me how "The Stick" works? |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: November 30 2004 at 15:50
A Brief History of the Stick
A member of the guitar and bass family, The Stick introduced a full two-handed piano technique applied directly onto the strings. It has a longer natural sustain than guitar, and yet is extremely percussive, the "drumming" of fingers executing sharp, staccato rhythms. It also has a strong and distinctive bass voice. And so, the techniques of four major instruments - guitar, piano, bass and drums - are all brought together on this single TouchboardŽ instrument. The technique came before the instrument, a sudden discovery while playing my guitar in 1969. No known guitarist, bassist, or fingerboard player had ever before used a basic three and four fingered technique in each hand simultaneously to play independent lines, scales and chords. It was unique, yet basic and logical - both hands aligned parallel to the frets and perpendicular to the strings, the fingers of each hand fitting sequentially into selected fret spaces at any point along the board. This is the common orientation of a fingering hand, more or less at right angles to the neck, and has from antiquity been the manner in which pickers, pluckers and strummers of stringed instruments finger-stopped their notes, usually with the left hand. I dedicated this fingering role to both hands, each addressing the board from opposite sides, and I began to perform, teach, and demonstrate this new method, as well as inventing and manufacturing a new instrument to fully realize its potential. By 1970 I was playing L.A. clubs with jazz guitarist Barney Kessel, using this light-touch method of independent hands to play simultaneous bass, chords and melody on my modified guitar. Later that year I built a bodiless version out of an ebony board and called it "The Electric Stick". Refinements of the instrument and the method then evolved together, with my first production run of Sticks in 1974, as well as my first nationally televised Stick performance on "What's My Line" that year. Stick Enterprises was founded in 1974 to manufacture and distribute the Stick. Since then we have added many new features and created a variety of related tapping instruments, including 8, 10, and 12 string models, an 8-string NS/Stick bass guitar, and related accessories. Emmett Chapman, President, Stick Enterprises, Inc.
This is from the Chapman Stick website; http://www.stick.com/history/stick/ - http://www.stick.com/history/stick/ The photo Sigod posted is a Warr guitar, similar to the stick. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: November 30 2004 at 16:13
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for the Chapman Stick!Posted By: goose
Date Posted: November 30 2004 at 16:15
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And to Wizard/TRuestar, look at http://www.stick.com/method/ - http://www.stick.com/method/ for a demonstration |
Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: December 04 2004 at 03:32
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anyone heard of a theremin
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: December 04 2004 at 09:19
yep |
Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: December 04 2004 at 18:48
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I am amazed that someone actually knows what I'm talking about. You ever played one b4? It's a blast! |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 01:09
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theremins always make me think of cheesy 50s horror movies.
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Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 01:30
| well there's good reason for that, considering it's been used in the soundtracks of 90% of those movies. But, if used correctly, it can make a violin like or vocal sound. there are also some that can take in MIDI files and allow you to manipulate sound effects. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 07:09
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sadly I've never played one, no. My friend was going to get one off eBay but then realised he couldn't play any musical instruments |
Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 12:57
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well those things are seriously fun. If you get the chance, play the Moog Theremin. It's the best one. ------------- "O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love 'n you should have us all O' you should have us fall" "Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 17:27
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Roland has a similar device called the D-beam, and Korg does it with their Kaoss equipment. Both are similar, but use invisible sensors rather than an electrostatic antenna. It is really mindbogglingly amazingly fun to make sounds by moving your hands in the air. We had some discussion about the theremin a while back- I'll see if I can dig up the thread. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 17:48
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http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=332&KW=theremin - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=332&am p;KW=theremin Peace JL
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Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: December 05 2004 at 23:48
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There is also this thing called the Tannerin, which was used in The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"
------------- "O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love 'n you should have us all O' you should have us fall" "Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart |
