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Title: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on March 31, 2014, 09:59:40 am
Even if you have never played a musical instrument, you probably know tons of common instruments and what sound they make. Everyone knows what a trumpet sounds like. If you hear a violin, you know it's a violin. This thread is to share really strange musical instruments. Post images or youtube videos of odd and obscure musical instruments that you find interesting. CRPG has a really diverse player base, so I hope some of you guys can provide info on cool folk instruments that originated where you live.

To get things started:

The bazantar. It is an upright bass mixed with a sitar. Sitars have small strings behind the main ones you actually pluck. The bazantar is a bass that has sympathetic strings like that. Wonderful drone chords to accompany the notes you are actually playing. It almost sounds like a regular bass passed through some really strange digital filter.


The hurdy gurdy is basically what would happen if a violin and accordion had a baby. Instead of plucking the strings, you turn a crank and use keys on the side of the instrument to play specific notes. It also has a really funny name.

And here's a group of gamelan players. The gamelan is from southeast Asia. It's played similarly to a xylophone or marimba - you strike blocks of metal with a mallet play each note. There's something about the timbre and chord progression of gamelan music that makes my hair stand up on the back of my neck. It just sounds spooky and ominous. Visions of demons and ghosts from the far east...


I've got more to post soon, but I'm excited to see what you have to share.
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Grumbs on March 31, 2014, 10:18:52 am
The Hang:

Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Vibe on March 31, 2014, 10:42:59 am
The meat flute

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Post by: Sniger on March 31, 2014, 10:59:07 am
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Post by: Moncho on March 31, 2014, 11:06:50 am
An interesting one is the dulzaina (dolçaina) in my region, usually accompanied by a tabalet (a type of drum), which accompany traditional dances and processions. The dolçaina has a very potent voice that can be heard from a distance and is used to let people know that something festive is going on in the main square of villages.

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Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Utrakil on March 31, 2014, 11:29:47 am
Xaphoon or bamboo sax.
It basicly is a Saxophon mouthpiece on a flutebody.
It is nice and small but gives the warm jazzy and full sound of a Saxophone.
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Daunt_Flockula on March 31, 2014, 11:38:07 am
The glass harmonica was invented around the 16th century. It is played by producing sounds from different sizes of glass goblets by friction.

The strange thing about this instrument is that later in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was believed to drive the performer and listening audience mad because of its high-pitched nerve-stimulating impact. Below is what Wikipedia says about it:

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One example of fear from playing the glass harmonica was noted by a German musicologist Friedrich Rochlitz in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung:

    The harmonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood that is apt method for slow self-annihilation. If you are suffering from any kind of nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it.

Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on March 31, 2014, 11:45:23 am
And here is a meat-flute-guy playing a flute:

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Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Sniger on March 31, 2014, 11:51:51 am
Quote from: Utrakil on March 31, 2014, 11:29:47 am
Xaphoon or bamboo sax.

cool! sound also reminds of harmonica, just not so aggressive. good stuff
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: BlindGuy on March 31, 2014, 11:53:43 am
Excepting the meatflute, cause Ive never hears a decent note be played on that, excepting PFFFFFT-sharp, very nice thread, I've heard all these before except that glass harmonica, sounds very strange. I like the bamboo sax, vve should give kids those instead of the recorder to play at school, cause recorder is THE VVORST THING.
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Christo on March 31, 2014, 11:57:11 am
Quote from: Vibe on March 31, 2014, 10:42:59 am
The meat flute
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Vaib y u do dis
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Kafein on March 31, 2014, 12:42:38 pm
The Larsen effect.

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Post by: _schizo321437 on March 31, 2014, 01:05:05 pm
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Post by: SixThumbs on March 31, 2014, 05:00:58 pm
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Post by: Clockworkkiller on March 31, 2014, 09:02:14 pm
Where Can I learn to play meatflute?
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Joseph Porta on March 31, 2014, 09:27:46 pm
Quote from: Vibe on March 31, 2014, 10:42:59 am
The meat flute

Oh u
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Joseph Porta on March 31, 2014, 09:29:42 pm
Quote from: Christo on March 31, 2014, 11:57:11 am
Vaib y u do dis

Muhaha tenne did not remove the spoiler  :twisted:
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Tore on March 31, 2014, 09:31:03 pm
it's called skin flute
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Bob_Ross on April 01, 2014, 12:51:42 am

If you thought theremins were strange, here's another one of Léon Theremin's inventions: the theremin cello.
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: [ptx] on April 01, 2014, 01:27:00 am
Obscure:
Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Tiger on April 02, 2014, 04:35:33 am
Looks like chinese GuZheng, but I really like the GuZheng :D

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Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Sniger on April 30, 2014, 12:28:19 pm
not very strange or obscure but its less than 1000 DKR and i just bought one!


sorry for the asian language, but this is the one i could find with the best sound (also little fun gimmick in the end of the vid :) )

Title: Re: Strange, unique, and obscure musical instruments
Post by: Radament on April 30, 2014, 03:57:35 pm
The Theremin is sure my favourite

here's how is it used
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and here what awesome sound can be produced
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