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09-18-2013, 12:03 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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I'd say the theremin, but strangeness is relative.
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09-18-2013, 03:05 AM | #4 (permalink) | |
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Definitely the contrabass flute, it's a flute on steroids, honestly I don't think a flute should be that big. Another weird thing about is not only it's size but all the flappy noise it makes.
I guess the Nychelharpa is also strange to me because the amount of strings and the complex way of stopping the string is done, compared to the four string and plain fingerboard of instruments in the violin family, but it does have a nice sound to it.
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09-19-2013, 10:52 AM | #6 (permalink) | |
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I'm actually looking into building my own theremin.
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The other day I actually got to try a contrabass flute at the store. Only a few flute makers produce them, and they are very expensive. Even the ones made from PVC pipe. The silver plated one they're selling on FluteWorld.com is $14,531.00. There is also a subcontrabass flute: This guy has better finger technique than the girl in the other video, so you won't hear the mechanism so much. It sounds a lot like a double bass, or maybe even the octobass. There is a relatively new flute invention called the Hyperbass Flute as well. I believe this is only part of it (pictured with some other low flutes). The Hyperbass is 32 feet of PVC tubing. Edit: The flute on the far right is an Alto Flute, which is what I play regularly. |
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09-19-2013, 01:15 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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I've heard that they're not too hard to make, I say go for it! Be sure to get some pics or a good video of it playing for us. I have a theremin that I bought and it's hard for me to get anything good without assaulting it with effects. Luckily I do noise music so that's fine with me.
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09-19-2013, 04:56 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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