The Cool/Rare/Weird Instrument Appreciation Thread

grindy · 02-02-2016, 06:56 PM

Some great vintage soviet industrial played on various weird-ass instruments.

OccultHawk · 02-03-2016, 01:52 AM

This is a cool thread. The videos where they sit around and talk about their instruments instead of playing the damn things are aggravating as hell though.

grindy · 02-03-2016, 04:07 PM

Vibraband

Mouth xylophone (?)

WWWP · 02-03-2016, 08:28 PM

My band acquired a TaishoGoto (Nagoya Harp) several years ago and have a few songs that feature it.

Very cool Miyazaki ST feel.

grindy · 02-04-2016, 04:28 AM

^So that's how that sound is made! Cool instrument. Never saw that one before.

Here's the Sabionari guitar, the only currently playable Stradivarius guitar, in action.

WWWP · 02-04-2016, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

^So that's how that sound is made! Cool instrument. Never saw that one before.

It's nice, isn't it? Thrift store find, believe it or not.

**Frownland** · 02-05-2016, 11:07 AM

^Lucky bastards

Here's about as close to the daxophone as you can get (although it's still pretty far from it)

Some instruments are right outside our own homes

grindy · 02-05-2016, 11:14 AM

Ah, nice! Jon Rose and his fences. Didn't know he got the Kronos Quartet to play them.
Apparently Hans Reichel once organized a daxophone quartet to be played by KQ, but they found it to be quite difficult and the whole project more or less failed.
I really hope someone will eventually master the dax as well as Reichel himself.
There's a freshly released album by Junji Hirose and Kazuhisa Uchihashi called Saxophonedaxophone. Really hope it'll utilize the instrument in an appropriately cool way.

**Frownland** · 02-07-2016, 12:19 AM

https://vimeo.com/41333672

Can't find too many videos of this, and one of them is ****ing sideways, but I can say that I want a Stamenphone.

Stephen · 02-07-2016, 06:08 PM

02-02-2016, 06:56 PM	#11 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Some great vintage soviet industrial played on various weird-ass instruments. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

02-03-2016, 04:07 PM	#13 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Vibraband Mouth xylophone (?) __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

02-04-2016, 04:28 AM	#15 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	^So that's how that sound is made! Cool instrument. Never saw that one before. Here's the Sabionari guitar, the only currently playable Stradivarius guitar, in action. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

02-05-2016, 11:07 AM	#17 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	^Lucky bastards Here's about as close to the daxophone as you can get (although it's still pretty far from it) Some instruments are right outside our own homes __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-05-2016, 11:14 AM	#18 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Ah, nice! Jon Rose and his fences. Didn't know he got the Kronos Quartet to play them. Apparently Hans Reichel once organized a daxophone quartet to be played by KQ, but they found it to be quite difficult and the whole project more or less failed. I really hope someone will eventually master the dax as well as Reichel himself. There's a freshly released album by Junji Hirose and Kazuhisa Uchihashi called Saxophonedaxophone. Really hope it'll utilize the instrument in an appropriately cool way. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

02-03-2016, 01:52 AM	#12 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	This is a cool thread. The videos where they sit around and talk about their instruments instead of playing the damn things are aggravating as hell though.

02-07-2016, 12:19 AM	#19 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	https://vimeo.com/41333672 Can't find too many videos of this, and one of them is ***ing sideways, but I can say that I want a Stamenphone. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

02-07-2016, 06:08 PM	#20 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,847