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Author: | Jayesskerr [ Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:22 am ] |
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Hmmn, what all is out there. Post YouTube videos if you can find 'em? My contribution. Mark Wood's "Wood Violins". I've known about these for a while; really cool stuff! http://youtu.be/Ka0a9HSNs_Y |
Author: | john.e [ Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:20 am ] |
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfp1ayQ9h0[/youtube] |
Author: | Sominus [ Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:55 pm ] |
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Since we're showing off Mark Woods, here is my son on stage with him... |
Author: | AnDroiD [ Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:54 pm ] |
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Kadabra, huh? a little too buzzed with fingers on strings right now...think i'll stick with Stick. (really cool lookin'. they make it in bamboo?) |
Author: | paigan0 [ Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:48 am ] |
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This is a very old instrument, but new to me: the Swedish Nyckelharpa. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=10737 But I learned about the LinnStrument from Jacubert's Shame 2016 post. It's a new way to play keyboards: Quote: I'm fascinated by the mention of the Linnstrument, so I poked around and read this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/linnstrument/. It's called "The instrument that's the key to electronic music's future." Sound on Sound from the 2015 NAMM with Roger Linn, inventor: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLh6G1aLuzo[/youtube] The next new, cool instrument to me that wasn't Stick-related: The Marcodi Harpeijji and its inventor, Tim Meeks. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKkJpQUiqQ[/youtube] All of these instruments are keyboard-type instruments and new and cool to me--especially the LinnStrument. Thanks for the thread, Scott! |
Author: | paigan0 [ Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:43 am ] |
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This article actually recommends playing the LinnStrument "like a Chapman Stick": http://www.keyboardmag.com/gear/1183/th ... yers/52488 Quote: The LinnStrument comes with guitar strap pins that can be screwed into any of its four corners, and Roger recommends holding the unit like a Chapman Stick, i.e., on a diagonal with your left hand wrapped around the top left quadrant and your right hand around the bottom right. I tried this, but my left hand strained to reach the bass notes in the bottom left area. It would help if you could flip the note layout of the left-hand split part so that the lowest notes started with the top left pad, but I could see that steepening the learning curve as you’d need to think about two mirror-imaged note layouts at once. I reverted to placing it flat on a desktop with my hands in “keyboard player” position. Sweetwater has them here for around $1500: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LinnStrument I've asked my Sweetwater dude for some more info, and I might end up putting one on that 2-year interest-free $5000 credit card Sweetwater foolishly approved me for (foolish for me--smart business for them!). Anyone with some experience with the LinnStrument care to tell me more about them and your experience(s) with them? Thanks! |
Author: | Captain Strings [ Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:23 am ] |
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This instrument has been around in this form since about 1960 or so. And nothing sounds remotely like it - especially in the hands of someone like my friend Tommy White. Here he stretches out on the C6 neck of a D-10 Emmons. The pedals and knee levers alter the tuning in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways in real time while the strings are ringing. I've often pondered adding 3 or 4 thumb levers on the back side of a Stick to alter the high strings on the bass side tuning for more advanced chord options and maybe a whole tone raise on the 3rd string on the melody side. The way I envision it the back of the Stick neck would resemble a simpler version the linkages on a clarinet. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZoPTJNmiCw[/youtube] |
Author: | Gnat [ Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:55 am ] |
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what about and Eigenharp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF38B38dSHo |
Author: | Jayesskerr [ Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:52 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Other innovative "interesting" instruments... |
paigan0 wrote: This article actually recommends playing the LinnStrument "like a Chapman Stick": http://www.keyboardmag.com/gear/1183/th ... yers/52488 Quote: The LinnStrument comes with guitar strap pins that can be screwed into any of its four corners, and Roger recommends holding the unit like a Chapman Stick, i.e., on a diagonal with your left hand wrapped around the top left quadrant and your right hand around the bottom right. I tried this, but my left hand strained to reach the bass notes in the bottom left area. It would help if you could flip the note layout of the left-hand split part so that the lowest notes started with the top left pad, but I could see that steepening the learning curve as you’d need to think about two mirror-imaged note layouts at once. I reverted to placing it flat on a desktop with my hands in “keyboard player” position. Sweetwater has them here for around $1500: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LinnStrument I've asked my Sweetwater dude for some more info, and I might end up putting one on that 2-year interest-free $5000 credit card Sweetwater foolishly approved me for (foolish for me--smart business for them!). Anyone with some experience with the LinnStrument care to tell me more about them and your experience(s) with them? Thanks! Paigann you sonofabitch! Now I want a Linnstrument so bad I can taste it. Dammit... The gear lust continues... |
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