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15 May 03 - 07:59 PM (#953440) Subject: odd musical instruments ! From: Bill D ok, Rick Fielding, I got one for you!...uh, two....maybe three, depending on how you count....but you gotta take your shoes off! one man band, with short clip found at this page .... which is a subset of this page LOTS of other stuff..... |
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15 May 03 - 08:03 PM (#953444) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Bill D like THIS! a long 6th finger might help |
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15 May 03 - 08:27 PM (#953456) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Cluin I'm still intrigued by Linda Manzer's Pikasso guitar thingy. |
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15 May 03 - 08:35 PM (#953459) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Sorcha Isn't it Stephen Bennet who plays a harp/guitar? Might be somebody else, can't remember for sure. |
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15 May 03 - 08:42 PM (#953465) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Cluin Michael Hedges played one too on a few pieces. |
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15 May 03 - 09:09 PM (#953475) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST Listen to the combolins used in the Corries recordings. Go to the Corries web site to see them. |
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15 May 03 - 11:36 PM (#953537) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: PoppaGator Check out Phil DuGruy and his Guitarp: http://www.guitarp.com/guitarp.html which is part of: |
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16 May 03 - 05:09 AM (#953634) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: open mike then there is the lagerphone http://members.ozemail.com.au/~goreing/lagerphone.htm i think this guy is a mud cat... also a pole hanger... |
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16 May 03 - 07:00 AM (#953653) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Wilfried Schaum Really a fine collection, of which the lagerphone is a true and genuine folk instrument. One can see it in Germany, too, where it is known by the name of Teufelsgeige = Devil's violin. Wilfried |
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16 May 03 - 07:09 AM (#953656) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST,Philippa does anyone play the phonofiddle? (1 string and a horn attached for amplification) |
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16 May 03 - 08:07 AM (#953672) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Jeanie My dear departed dad was brilliant on tobacco tin with one hand and teeth with the other(which he tapped with the stem of his pipe). - jeanie |
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16 May 03 - 08:17 AM (#953678) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Jeanie By the way...most of his teeth were his own and he *did* keep them in whilst playing !! - jeanie |
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16 May 03 - 09:44 AM (#953725) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: JennyO Yes, I think the lagerphone guy is one of ours. I went back to his homepage, too, and liked the clock with the little numbers that follow you around. Cool! His link to the Wongawilli website is worth looking at. They are close to us, just down the south coast a bit - an excellent Australian bush band. I have a friend who started making lagerphones. I was saving bottletops for him. Then he and his wife took moved away from Sydney. Now I have bags of bottletops and no-one to give them to. I miss them too. Come back Ron and Pat! Jenny |
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16 May 03 - 10:38 AM (#953760) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Bill D I am sort of bemused that NO one has commented on my original link. I might have well as posted just the title. *wry grin*.... ah, well |
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16 May 03 - 10:44 AM (#953764) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: MMario it's a cat-herding type of day Bill. |
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16 May 03 - 11:06 AM (#953778) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Bill D gee...I thought I was putting out a saucer of milk! *grin*.... (I had a dog once, MUCH easier to get to do what you want....I'd say "sit up, or won't you?"...and he either sat up, or he didn't...) |
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16 May 03 - 11:23 AM (#953787) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Pied Piper This is a great site Bill thanks a lot for linking it. For some time I've been thinking about getting a soprano Sax, and now I find that some one is making Saxes out of bamboo with a simple system fingering. Cheers PP |
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16 May 03 - 11:45 AM (#953801) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: TheBigPinkLad Dig out your recording of the Beatles "Give Peace a Chance" ... that's not a drum ... it's a wardrobe. |
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16 May 03 - 11:48 AM (#953805) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST,alinact How about Ted Egan's Fosterphone for simplicity. Allan |
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16 May 03 - 01:08 PM (#953870) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST,Johnny in OKC I have a home made "boom fiddle", possibly something like your Teufelsgeige ?? It is a broom stick mounted with a tambourine (for banging with a drumstick), wood block, cowbell, bike horn, and a small cymbal on top. The whole thing bounces on a spring. This is a versatile rhythm instrument, but Juilliard refuses to recognize it, so it qualifies as Folk. Takes years to master the intricacies. JOHNNY in OKC |
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16 May 03 - 03:06 PM (#953945) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: open mike well a nyckelharpa doesn't seem odd to Swedes,,,,but then,,,,, anerican organization for this instrument swedish dept. of musicology Leif Alpsjo's site a nyckelharpa builder |
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16 May 03 - 03:59 PM (#953983) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST BillD I opened the site and marveled at the instruments but couldn't listen here at the office. Will do when I get home. Thanks. They look intrigueing. |
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16 May 03 - 04:47 PM (#954007) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: TIA Oooh cool, my kids and I will be there for hours, then hours more in the basement buildin' stuff. Thanks BillD! |
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16 May 03 - 05:00 PM (#954018) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Emma B Hey Mr Red, remember the 'Japan Banjo' I bought at a flea market in Greenwich? - perhaps someone will have a clue how to tune it! or what the hell it is!! |
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16 May 03 - 05:32 PM (#954039) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: CraigS There's odder instruments than this about, but nothing here to challenge the lightening feet of Dr Isiah Ross! |
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16 May 03 - 06:10 PM (#954064) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Little Robyn I liked Henry Kipper's tremelodeon! Robyn |
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16 May 03 - 08:33 PM (#954126) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Bill D One of the most interesting things for me was the Stoessel-laute , as a friend (Peter Sailer) in our local (Wash DC) folk society plays the standard 'folk' version. See here and here as he explains it, the Steussel/Stoessel was banned by the Nazis as something not in keeping with the philosophies of the party, and thus many were destroyed. I had not heard of the 'lute' version until I found this site. |
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16 May 03 - 08:49 PM (#954134) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST,Tim There are tons of odd ones out there. Last weekend I saw Dave Para play a hickory leaf. |
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16 May 03 - 10:40 PM (#954177) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Gorgeous Gary A couple of years back, my filk friends and I in the DC area held a small convention. Our main guest, Arizona filker, Celtic musician, and excellent banjo strummer Joe Betancourt brought along a friend and bandura player with him. We were mighty impressed... My personal favorite odd instrument (which isn't really all **that** odd...) is my uncle Don Ehrlich's Pellegrina, an ergonomic viola created by Oregon instrument maker David Rivinus. My uncle is the first violist to play one in a major symphony orchestra (San Francisco). -- Gary |
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17 May 03 - 11:06 AM (#954355) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: GUEST,reggie miles Bill, my friend Robert OneMan Johnson's version of Jesse Fuller's "foot diller" could qualify for that site. It's a 12-string bass that he plays with his foot. He calls it his foot piano. I'm not certain if my Nobro which is actually a hybridization of both the Dobro and National brand guitars that I made out of stuff I found at various garage sales would though. It doesn't have the freakish look of some of those things pictured there. I guess I've just got to get freakier. I'll work on that. I do have some ideas that fall into that freakier range but need more time to execute them. Let's see, I'll need to get the underground laboratory ready and I'll need a lab assistant with a name like Igore. Yeees, that's it! Then I'll need a brain, a gooood fresh brain, MAAHAHA! (he laughs deleriously out of control) |
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17 May 03 - 11:12 AM (#954363) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Bill D well, I saw a guitar made from a toilet seat once..(the commercial kind with a gap at the front)...you & Igor might start there even WITHOUT a brain! |
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17 May 03 - 11:41 AM (#954374) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: dwditty Not all that strange, but I just ordered a Diddleybow last night. One of its main components is an Altoids tin....the model I chose is ready to be plugged in as well. www.diddleybow.com |
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18 May 03 - 10:35 AM (#954811) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: Mr Red I remember seeing a picture of a cajun travelling one-man-band with several intruments one of which looked like a pedal driven Double Bass - bicycle pedals. Anymone out there put a name to the artist &/or the instrument? And there is a regular festival goer with what looks like an Appalacian dulcimer in a box with a lid and more frets. It was described as a Japan Banjo though the Jappaning of it was the black lacquer. I have yet to hear it played. |
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18 May 03 - 11:29 AM (#954839) Subject: RE: odd musical instruments ! From: khandu Anyone here ever play a Chapman Stick? k |
