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Post by crypto00687 on Jun 8, 2021 2:32:02 GMT -5
This thread is dedicated to strange and different instruments
I think that's pretty obvious
They may be strange and different, but they're still great
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Post by Bogus0Pomp on Jun 9, 2021 11:45:29 GMT -5
Speaking of musical saws, it's been said that the inspiration for the invention of the theremin was the musical saw. I don't know if that's true or not, but they do at times share the same sort of sound and use of glissando and vibrato in their playing.
Here now is a duet of theremin and musical saw:
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Post by Bogus0Pomp on Jun 9, 2021 14:19:31 GMT -5
Here's another unusual instrument pairing, theremin and glass harp.
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Post by Bogus0Pomp on Jun 11, 2021 10:47:48 GMT -5
Stumbled across this video. I didn't know such an instrument existed, but given the physical characteristics of a carillon it makes sense that a practice carillon would be made.
Here's an actual carillon in action at the Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, FL.
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Post by crypto00687 on Jun 12, 2021 10:30:26 GMT -5
All of those videos are amazing. But the Carillon sounded like something out of a beautiful nightmare. Never gonna forget that sound.
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Post by Bogus0Pomp on Jun 18, 2021 17:23:09 GMT -5
This thread seemed like the appropriate spot to put this. On This Date in History 18 June 1867: Thaddeus Cahill, inventor of the Telharmonium is born. The Telharmonium is credited as the first electromechanical musical instrument, and Mr. Cahill was perhaps the first person to conceptualize streaming music, using his Telharmonium to broadcast music to subscribers over the telephone lines. Invented before the vacuum tube and the amplification it would provide, the instrument had to rely upon large scale dynamos and tone wheels, eventually growing to some 200 tons in weight. In the 1930s, with the benefit of vacuum tube amplifiers, Laurens Hammond would utilize the basic principles of the Telharmonium's tone wheels in a much smaller scale in the popular Hammond organ.
RELATED LINKS 🔗 The Telharmonium Was the Spotify of 1906 🔗 The ‘Telharmonium’ or ‘Dynamophone’ Thaddeus Cahill, USA 1897
Sadly it seems that there are no recordings of the Telharmonium still in existence, but there are photos...
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Post by crypto00687 on Jun 19, 2021 16:49:49 GMT -5
That's pretty remarkable
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