Strange Instruments

So, if you were given the chance, what's the weirdest instrument you would try out?

Can be more than one. Or you could just post a strange instrument you found.

BEHOLD!




THE HARP PIANO!

that looks pretty cool, id have to say a theremin

jcb.. wut the heck is that? lol im staring at it and i cant figure out how its an instrument!

Looks like someone stole a TV from the TV stand but left the antennas.

Diddgeridoo! Simple, but crazy sounds come out of this bad boy.

besides the upright position of the strings and no covering, whats the difference between a harpiano and a piano/harpischord?

Wow thats some nice wood work.

lol thats the great thing about a theremin you look at it like o.O. its an electrocic instrument which when you move your hand closer to one of the aerials it changes the pitch of a note and the second aerial changes the volume. its very cool stuff


like that

I LOVE the theremin! haha

I have a diddgeridoo :D They're hard work, but great to play.

Baudelaire, I think it's basically two instruments pratically glued together. Not quite sure how they're going to play the harp part though.

Empirism, the first part of that video, I thought it was like a new verson of a Koto, but it seems like a Piano instead, weird!

Speaking of Koto...



Bei Bei - Personally I love her work, she's amazingly talented. She signed my CD when I bought it, which was pretty cool.

holy! that theremin is insane! loooooooool i want one!

theremin all the way

cool stuff the theremin, quite cheap for top of the range aswell, considering getting one hmm...

I'd like to play a buhtfore.

id have a lot of fun with the theremin

id probly get bored of it in an hour or so lol

@Jazz

Oh well... *heading to the music store*...

Nice one, so beautyful.

JIMMY PAGE USED A THEREMIN,

in a live concert, it was either madison square gardens or earls court on either dazed and confused or whole lotta love...cnt remember

The Top 20 Strange instruments...
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=5866

I found this on the internet along time ago and saved the pic. I don't remember where it came from but I thought it was the coolest guitar I'd ever seen.

I forgot the image!

Must be a pain to find a case for it.

^ Does the top half of that have pickups even? Or are they on the bridge/saddles (piezos, I think they're called...)?

Okay, trupmet harmonica!




(The guitar's definately is'nt as crazy as MacandKanga's though!)

How can you even play that guitar? (The one macandkanga posted)

Heather's trumpet harmonica, now THAT is weird!

how does that harmonica work?

I figure the top guitar's strings are drone strings or whatever.

I'm not sure how the heck anyone can play either of them! I'm upset now, I thought I kicked bum on the chromatic harmonica, but then that thing comes along and I've no idea! :(

The guitar's realy crazy, although I have to admit it does look like a strange ornament from first glance.

schnikes! that's a big guitar!

I'm building a theremin with some friends tonight.

Paige playing the theremin seems like a gimmick to me. Professional "Thereminists" can really make that thing sing.

Make one for me while you're at it! :D That'd be some great fun.

how do they work?

The Melodica:


Gourd Banjo:

Whoa, that's pretty strange... How big is the top one? It looks like a tooth pick.

Those were the original shapes for banjos, weren't they?

doing the same thing foogered but also turning a guitar hero controller into a midi guitar. a fun little thing to use on stage with our synthest

Yes, I believe so. I think that banjos started out in Africa, and they used what they had for materials. I kind of want to make one, since my dad grows gourds for fun, so I have those at hand. I'm not sure how to do the neck though.

I may just make a drum out of one: Cut the top off and spread a skin over it and fasten it with tacks or something.

That would be so much fun, would you take a picture of it when you've finished making it? :D

Where do you plan on getting the skin though? I've never actually made one before, so I'm not really sure.

I'm not sure on that, so I'll definitely have to do some research. I've actually made some maracas out of gourds, and they sound okay. I cut a hole in them, and put pebbles in one and sand in the other. Then I put the piece I cut out back on, and fastened it with wood putty. Then I painted them.

Maybe I could make all my instruments out of gourds. I think an amp built into a gourd would be sick. :P

Hell yes that is the best idea going "gourd amps" i can see it now
Tabla's are made out of gourd and there the best drums going in my opinion (can't be use of all purposes of course nothing can) i just love that bass drum sound when they change the pitch . i want a set then i just need a teacher for those Indian timings additive rhythm ****s

dont turn it up to loud.. the gourd will explode!