strange and unusual instruments

SisterMidnight · 05-14-2006, 08:40 PM

i was browsing videos on youtube and came across this one of the late michael "the guitarist from another planet" hedges playing a harp guitar..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7k...chael%20hedges

i guess this instrument has been around for awhile but i don't remember seeing it used much (i vaguely remember robbie robertson from the band having one) and it's different than just a double neck guitar like jimmy page played, tho he may have had a harp guitar too..

i just think it's very unigue and has a cool sound..

Yetzirah · 05-14-2006, 11:57 PM

wow, that really is amazing! i wonder how hard it is to play it!!!

cello_pudding · 05-16-2006, 07:05 PM

one of my professors showed the class a recording of a joke piece performed a long time ago. it had vaccuum cleaners and what not. there was a picture on the record of a guy with a sub contra bassoon. it was enormous, but i guess it's a real instrument. it was probably the only one ever made. you couldn't walk with it, and i doubt it could get through many doors.

SisterMidnight · 05-17-2006, 02:53 AM

that sounds huge! who would have the lung power to play it i wonder? i can't remember what a bassoon sounds like now.. i keep hearing oboe instead when i try to remember..

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Originally Posted by Yetzirah

wow, that really is amazing! i wonder how hard it is to play it!!!

it looks hard to me! like you almost need four hands.. but if you notice he's using hammer ons and pull offs and finger percussion on the guitar part when he's picking the harp part.. still i'm not sure i would have the coordination for all that

Yetzirah · 05-17-2006, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by SisterMidnight

it looks hard to me! like you almost need four hands.. but if you notice he's using hammer ons and pull offs and finger percussion on the guitar part when he's picking the harp part.. still i'm not sure i would have the coordination for all that

yeah, i saw that as well. but still - as you said... i think it still takes time to coordinate everything and so on...

Lazy Life · 05-17-2006, 08:44 PM

I saw a few guys plaing an instrument not disimilar to that one. It was like a mandonlin which had a full length neck with like a head and everything, then out of the head where all the machine head were bent another neck which rose to a full length too. It's hard to explain but the effect was the same, deep bass notes and twidly high bits over the top.

So it was like that, but a mandonlin with a single bent neck. Absolutley fascinating to watch.

ZachC · 06-08-2006, 11:29 PM

ive seen a guy live play the harp guitar and a mando guitar (a guitar tuned like a mandoline nothing special ) the guys was from nashville tennessee tom shiness is his name check him out

Gatsby · 06-09-2006, 05:04 PM

Thomas Truax has to have the most bizarre instruments

he builds them himself

http://www.thomastruax.com/

www.myspace.com/thomastruax

Gatsby · 06-09-2006, 05:11 PM

SisterMidnight · 06-10-2006, 03:15 AM

i've never heard of that guy.. i like him

he kind of reminds me of frank zappa for some reason..

i think the hornicator is my favorite, though the sister spinster is pretty cool too

05-14-2006, 08:40 PM	#1
SisterMidnight Jellyfishsting Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Is this heaven? Posts: 5,500	strange and unusual instruments i was browsing videos on youtube and came across this one of the late michael "the guitarist from another planet" hedges playing a harp guitar.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7k...chael%20hedges i guess this instrument has been around for awhile but i don't remember seeing it used much (i vaguely remember robbie robertson from the band having one) and it's different than just a double neck guitar like jimmy page played, tho he may have had a harp guitar too.. i just think it's very unigue and has a cool sound..

05-14-2006, 11:57 PM	#2
Yetzirah Eskimissima Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: in my own little world! :D Posts: 2,746	wow, that really is amazing! i wonder how hard it is to play it!!! __________________ Nothing to declare

05-17-2006, 08:44 PM	#6
Lazy Life Working on a Dream Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 146	I saw a few guys plaing an instrument not disimilar to that one. It was like a mandonlin which had a full length neck with like a head and everything, then out of the head where all the machine head were bent another neck which rose to a full length too. It's hard to explain but the effect was the same, deep bass notes and twidly high bits over the top. So it was like that, but a mandonlin with a single bent neck. Absolutley fascinating to watch. __________________ ...

06-08-2006, 11:29 PM	#7
ZachC Eskimo Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Asheville, NC USA Posts: 835	ive seen a guy live play the harp guitar and a mando guitar (a guitar tuned like a mandoline nothing special ) the guys was from nashville tennessee tom shiness is his name check him out __________________ Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed - alexander pope Visit me and my band at www.myspace.com/zcraftmusic

06-09-2006, 05:04 PM	#8
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	Thomas Truax has to have the most bizarre instruments he builds them himself http://www.thomastruax.com/ www.myspace.com/thomastruax __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

05-16-2006, 07:05 PM	#3
cello_pudding Eskimo Regular Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 185	one of my professors showed the class a recording of a joke piece performed a long time ago. it had vaccuum cleaners and what not. there was a picture on the record of a guy with a sub contra bassoon. it was enormous, but i guess it's a real instrument. it was probably the only one ever made. you couldn't walk with it, and i doubt it could get through many doors.

06-09-2006, 05:11 PM	#9
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	__________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

06-10-2006, 03:15 AM	#10
SisterMidnight Jellyfishsting Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Is this heaven? Posts: 5,500	i've never heard of that guy.. i like him he kind of reminds me of frank zappa for some reason.. i think the hornicator is my favorite, though the sister spinster is pretty cool too

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