Rare instruments (1 Viewer)

[Beanstalk]

So basically us humans have been making the same music for eons...just using different instruments for our arrangements, as they are invented...so what's next?

In this world of mass production it looks any new instruments are either gonna be electronic or variations on a guitar or piano...quicker learning curve n' all.

Anyone play any rare bizzarre instruments?


I played the bassoon when I was younger...rare-ish...and the spoons, of course.

 

[coast to coast]

I have a charango, but its not especially weird. Like a mandolin in a way or a ukelele (position) - ten strings in five sets of two, but the notes are arranged oddly. not like a guitar starting low and getting high. the highest and lowest strings are the octave apart set in the middle. sound lovely.

 

[the departed]

not really on-topic but i despirately want a hammer dulcimer.

 

[Beanstalk]

not really on-topic but i despirately want a hammer dulcimer.

Man, that looks hard...

 

[theinvisiblerep]

After seeing the Arcade Fire, I want a Herdy-Gerdy.

 

[Unknown Convict]

not really on-topic but i despirately want a hammer dulcimer.

get a santoor!

http://www.santoor.com/

 

[BC]

or a cymbalum (as used by these legends:

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i'm planning on making a daxophone (apparently its not too difficult) which was invented by hans reichel (www.daxo.de). its like a load of wooden strips which are plucked, bowed or struck, attached to contact mics. he famousely based his instrument on the sonic range of the badger. it has an amazing sound. here is a short demonstration of it:

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[Unicron]

After seeing the Arcade Fire, I want a Herdy-Gerdy.

After I saw them I quite fancied the the idea of having a q-chord/omni chord.

They've got a celesta too.

 

[coast to coast]

I can also do a deadly impression of a theremin.

 

[Pantone247]

I play one of these... it's tricky...

 

[cookiemonster]

my girlfriend got me a componium for my birthday, best present ever :heart:

 

[chrisjedijane]

I mess around on the accordion evey now and again, but I guess it's not all that rare.

plus i'm complete shit at it.

 

[Pantone247]

I've a childs accordian, I think it's in C and you can get away with stuff in G too, fun to play but your back and shoulders do be in bits after an short time

Love to get a full piano accordian but they're crazy money

 

[bloopitybloop]

hey pantone, how much was your autoharp?!

 

[Pantone247]

hey pantone, how much was your autoharp?!

tis not mine, I have it on a longish term lend from a friend who's wife bought it for him... which was pretty cool of him, I'm told I can hang on to it so long as I keep learning and playing it 8)

so I have no idea, sorry!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i have a piano accordian too - not a big full size one though and i cant play it but that hasnt stopped me playing gigs or recording with it. theres some sort of bagpipes/uillean pipes that a friend of my dads made in the attic at home and although ive tried and tried i cant get any sound at all to come out of it/them. i think they might be broken... i used to sometimes sellotape a tin whistle and harmonica to my electric kazoo and play it through effects and shit - was grand. my favorite yoke (apart from my acoustic gtr maybe) is the chord organ i got for €25 at that market on the corner of dorest st and NCR a few years ago. its like this one:

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I have a piano accordion that my ma bought me when I was 11. It was good value for money. I still use it. Problem is it's so loud. I got a lapharp off my gf but I've yet to learn to play it.

 

[chrisjedijane]

Love to get a full piano accordian but they're crazy money

Mine's a piano accordion - I got it off some guy who lived in the middle of nowhere, and he had literally hundreds of accordions lining the halls of his house. AFAIK his wife died in a fire or something a couple of years ago, and he just went crazy with collecting the accordions... It was pretty mental, but he sold me it for £150 which was a pretty good deal.

 

[shower another shower]

Made an attempt at playing tabla for about 8 years. Had a few teachers and spent two years practicing 8-12 hours a day. Have about six sets. Play only about 20 a week now. Had to stop as it was doing my head in. Hope to go back to it in the future, but takes an incredible amount of dedication.
Hammer dulcimer and santoor are the same thing. Santoor is just the Indian name for it. The Indians play a few Western instruments in classical music.

 

[the departed]

if anyone knows of somewhere in this country where i might get such a thing(dulcimer/santoor) then let me know...i WANT ONE>