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Ocean Tardigrade
Registrace 16. 09. 2011
I invent and make musical instruments so that I can make the music I want to make. This channel has experimental tests and some finished music.
Bowed Sympathetic Instrument Test
This instrument is meant to make it easier to play particular microtonal scales by providing audio feedback about whether you have hit the correct note. The 7 sympathetic (resonating) strings are tuned to the intended scale. You play the other string (melody string) and listen for the response of the sympathetic strings. In theory, you could record the sound of the melody string separately using an electromagnetic pickup and just use that in a recording. I enjoy the sound of the sympathetic strings. The melody string has a range of over three octaves. I have only played slightly over one octave in this video because I am not confident playing the instrument yet.
The intended scale in this video is 1, 12/11, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 18/11, 11/6, 2: Tonic, neutral second, major third, half augmented fourth, perfect fifth, neutral sixth, neutral 7th, octave.
The intended scale in this video is 1, 12/11, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 18/11, 11/6, 2: Tonic, neutral second, major third, half augmented fourth, perfect fifth, neutral sixth, neutral 7th, octave.
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Bending Strings With Staggered Frets
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Some people wonder how you can bend strings on a guitar with staggered frets. This is how. When you bend the string, the string moves from resting on one part of a fret to resting on another part of a fret.
The Frogs Ate Time
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Cut and paste from video and sound of a test of the new buzzy bridge on the keyed tromba marina. To me it sounded like frogs, so I sang about them eating time.
Keyed Tromba Marina Test
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A test and description of the electric keyed tromba marina I am experimentally making. A tromba marina is played by bowing the string while touching the string lightly with the other hand to sound the natural modes of vibration of the string. These modes of vibration approximate the harmonic series, making the instrument sound a bit like a bugle or valveless trumpet. On this instrument, I have ...
Acoustic Pedal Steel 6 String
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I converted this bolt-on neck acoustic steel strung guitar to be a lap steel with two pedals. The pedals are connected to the mechanism on the guitar with bicycle brake cable. When neither pedal is pressed, I have the strings tuned E, Bb, E, G, Bb, E. One pedal raises the Bbs to B. The other raises the G to G#. I still have the other neck lying about somewhere if I ever want to convert it back.
Statue Of Gandhi
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Instrument tuned to 26 equal pitch divisions of the octave (26ed2 for short) at Bohemian Night open mike at The Fisherman's Cottage, Reading, Berkshire, UK.
Flute Free With Aluminium Foil
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Like the things you get free in cereal boxes, you get this musical instrument free in a box of aluminium foil.
Elder Tree
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A piece of music or poetry about the elder tree, Sambucus nigra, also known as witchwood, with a flute made of witchwood and percussion made of witchwood.
Patterns Of 120 Ragas
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I derived these patterns from information on www.tanarang.com The patterns are my attempt to generalise the information to provide simple rules for improvising in the ragas. My patterns are designed so that Mukhya Ang and the illustrative ,musical phrases given on www.tanarang.com are consistent with the pattern I give. That means that every illustrative phrase or phrase in the Mukhya Ang is pe...
Witchwood Oblique Flute Test
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I made this oblique flute from some of the wood from elder trees growing in the hedge outside my flat. The fingerholes are positioned for ease of playing rather than a particular tuning because I had never successfully made a flute out of elder before and it didn't seem reasonable to spend time trying to tune the notes of the fingerholes. The mouth technique is like that of a ney or a kaval. Th...
Doves
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A song about the doves that I encounter where I live. The guitaroid and bass guitaroid are tuned to 26 equal pitch divisions of the octave (26ed2 for short).
I Love Cthulhu (26ed2)
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This version is in 26 equal pitch divisions of the octave (26ed2 for short), which is how I usually perform it. The song was originally composed with a fretless guitar providing the chords.
Dulcigurdy Explanation
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An explanation in response to a request for more information about the instrument in my video "A Dulcigurdy Needs No Gap Betwixt Strings & Fretboard".
Sympathetic String LED test
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An experiment to find out how easy it would be to set up a musical instrument with sympathetic strings so that when you play a particular note, a particular LED lights up, there being an LED for every note in the scale used. Equipment used: 12 power supply, LED, 1000 Ohm resistor.
Bass Drum Simulator And Snare Simulator Sticks
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Bass Drum Simulator And Snare Simulator Sticks
Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Lowest and Highest Together
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Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Lowest and Highest Together
Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Highest Pitch
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Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Highest Pitch
Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Medium Pitch
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Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Medium Pitch
Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Lowest Pitch
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Bass Drum Simulator Stick (Latest) Lowest Pitch
Antidisestablishmentarianism (Improvisation)
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Antidisestablishmentarianism (Improvisation)
Hurdy Gurdy With Bass Keys Test Part 1
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Hurdy Gurdy With Bass Keys Test Part 1
Bowed Lyre With Sympathetic Strings Test
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Bowed Lyre With Sympathetic Strings Test
New Strumkit Test (New Snare Engagement Mechanism)
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New Strumkit Test (New Snare Engagement Mechanism)
Lyre As Tanpura: Better Jawari Than Last Time
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Lyre As Tanpura: Better Jawari Than Last Time
Very cool! Looks like the idea could be adapted into something like a tagelharpa, but with the melody string along the far edge.
@@IsaacKuo , thank you. It was originally intended as a bowed lyre, but I had trouble getting a good timbre on the melody string, particularly on the high notes, without a fingerboard.
your imagination and skill is inspiring! Love this instrument!
Thank you.
So cool as always
Thank you.
This is glorious! Absolutely amazing timbre and lovely playing
Thank you.
Very cool idea! Could be quite useful for training your ear to new-to-you scales in addition to just sounding neat. I love your inventiveness and passion for doing what interests you; it's very inspiring, thank you for sharing it.
Thank you.
This sounds like some David Firth music
Cool song! It reminds me of some of the songs Jacob Barton created in the Sagittal Songbook as singing exercises.
@@stephenweigel , thank you.
dude i love your stuff, i see you everywhere there is microtonal music lol
@@nomad_0036, thank you.
All of this is underrated. Before it's time, I guess.
@@cubicinfinity2, thank you.
That's amazing.
@@cubicinfinity , thank you.
This would be a very fun version of rock paper scissors
So when you bend the string and it crosses a vertical area where there's not a fret anymore, the string can sustain while changing pitch to where a different fret is? Or does having an additional finger behind the main finger make it like it's "fretless?"
The first. The string slips from one section of fret to another without noticeably losing volume. It can make the relationship between the pitch produced and how far you pull the string a bit odd.
you have an interesting quality about you which i feel when listening to you
@@applegarden2448 , thank you.
Genius :D
@@davidking9707 , thank you.
What an extraordinary sound. I love it!!!!!
@@davidking9707 , thank you.
too much fun... 🙂 big thumbie thang hopping up, #2
@@jdmagicmusic , thank you.
What a great instrument for the harmonic series! One time I saw an African keyboard instrument that has keys you could hold down that activated a string, but it held down that string instead of activating its nodes. Great sounds!!!
Thank you.
It really is a trumpet-like sound. At 1:30 I'm hearing Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman !
Thank you. I was glad to find a well known popular tune that had a distinctive riff that could be played with the notes of the harmonic series.
oh is that how they made that terribly out of tune horrror music for 1900s movies?
@@itisinickt , no.
woodworking, musician, luthier, great combo!
Thank you.
What a brilliant idea! I've never could imagined that it's even possible to make polyphonic hurdy-gurdy!
Thank you. Others have made polyphonic hurdy gurdies, including this one made by Wolfgang Weichselbaumer. czcams.com/video/jNgWhgLW9zc/video.htmlsi=9J-1n_yw-yBAzJcW That's deliberately polyphonic, but some are accidentally polyphonic, for example having one string for the natural scale of the instrument and a different string for the accidentals.
Whoa radical
Thank you.
i love the warmth of it it gives a sence of nostalgia and comfort watching an old film on CRT TV as a child in a warm room by a fire on a cold winters day sort of feeing maybe an erol flynn movie
Thank you.
Cool stuff. There was this 3d printed harp "tunefast harp" that used 1 string wounded around ball bearings at specific distances so that you only need to tune 1 string, maybe something like that could help reduce the amount of sympathetic strings.
Thank you. I have thought of similar designs, but wouldn't expect it to work in practice based on my experience. If they have got it to work then that's great. Thank you for letting me know about it. I will try to find out more. With sympathetic strings, the point for me is more that the strings can be tuned to very different relative intervals for different pieces of music.
The only video I have found so far that actually shows the tunefast harp being tuned shows it failing.
When I have tried similar designs and got them to work, it has been when I want to retune all the Cs in two or three octaves with just one machine head, all the Ds with another and so on. It works well with much longer sections of string and the angle that the string goes through when moving from one section to the other to not be a sharp angle. Because pitch varies as a function of tension, you can also join strings of different gauge together and change the pitch of each section by the same amount using one machine head. I haven't built an instrument on that particular principle, just demonstrated on a model that it works.
This video shows a system that allows you to speed up retuning to different scales, without having to change the tension of the strings: czcams.com/video/bvkIFgbpaIU/video.html
This uses tension retuning to tune 2 sections each of 10 strings. One section of each string is an octave above the other section. You can easily extend this principle to 3 sections of each string or 4 sections of each string. czcams.com/video/Fh_-S8qjIvg/video.html
I love the weird shit youtube sends me. This is brilliant. My bet is that it words because you're vibrating the heck out of the string so there are a bunch of bits of time where it's sort got enough string to get a harmonic. That's maybe why it sounds other worldly
Thank you.
Ill be watching, @@MabInstruments
Awesome! that sounds really fun to play.
Thank you. I haven't quite found the joy of it yet, being out of practice, but when I feel more comfortable or become less self critical, I will probably enjoy it more.
@@MabInstruments I can relate to that. I just love the gestures and expressive smeariness of slide guitar. It's fun to make other instruments more like trombones!
@@markfdesimone , I love trombone. I have been very tempted to buy one, but it might be too loud for my neighbours.
I like that song :)
Thank you.
The next Academy award for sound will feature this instrument
Thank you.
coolio... i once did a show at a place that i didn't know it was a mental asylum until i got there (and that was after my Danish poet friend, who'd gotten the gig and traveled w/me had given me what amounted to 2 large doses of LSD) when we arrived, he whispered in my ear just as i was coming on to the acid "Flower, they're not gonna let you out!" ...turns out it was a great show and they were more than happy to pay my fee and gave me a big bottle of nice champagne as well... oh, thumbs up of course ( the lyrics of this song are bizarre, love it! 😂🤣😂 )
That sounds like a very intense gig. Thank you for sharing the story.
@@MabInstruments oh intense it was! Mads said he could see the exact moment the acid REALLY kicked in, i was onstage playing 'For What It's Worth' and then just WHOOSH!!! and i still had another 45 minutes to an hour of alternating music & poetry w/Mads...
Fantastic instrument and performance! I've been experimenting with making a ukulele hurdy gurdy (Hurdele Gurdele?), but I am struggling to get the correct friction from the strings and the disk/belt that makes contact with them. What would you recommend?
Thank you. I'd need to see your design to get a better idea, but common problems are not enough rosin, too much rosin, the disk/belt not being made from a material that holds rosin well and the disk/belt being pushed too strongly or not strongly enough against the strings. Some people will also suggest that applying cotton to the strings is important, though that is not a path I have pursued myself, because every time I try applying cotton, it seems to make things worse rather than better.
If you are not using strings that are specifically intended to be bowed (for example violin strings or viola strings) then changing to strings that are specifically intended to be bowed may help.
If you are using a disk then there are questions of whether the disk meets all of the strings at the same height and what effect holding a string to the fretboard will have. My personal preference in this is to have the plane of the disk more or less parallel to the plane of the strings, having the disk behind the strings and the soundboard in front, though that is not very practical if you are trying to convert an existing ukulele. If you did follow the same pattern as me then I recommend having a raised O shaped section on the disk that engages with the strings and having an adjustment for how much each string pushes against the wheel.
This video of mine about an instrument with hurdy gurdy-like wheel and three strings of standard guitar scale length combined with a fretboard may possibly help. My impression is that it's easier to get guitar length strings to work with a wheel than ukulele length strings, but I may be wrong. czcams.com/video/DIPrd30tqQw/video.htmlsi=MKSZhnU1hzxOI1N6
@@MabInstruments Thank you so much for the generous explanation! I haven't yet bought any rosin, so I'm not able to try it on the nylon ukulele strings. Maybe rosin and cotton would work. The belt does work a little better on my steel string guitar. I will keep experimenting!
So THAT'S what it sounds like inside a serial killer's head.
Or what?..................................................................................................................... 🙃
If I remember correctly the alternative was to set up the system to give painful electric shocks to one person or more people with who or where, when and for how long the shocks were administered being controlled by singing, intended as a consensual form of erotic play.
Fascinatingly inspirational! Many thanks...
Thank you.
Brilliant!
Thank you.
Have you ever thought about selling these? I'd buy one
I have considered it. I'd happily make you one. Something that sometimes gets in the way of making instruments for people is the expense of sending them to different countries. I'm in the UK.
Man, I like my action low but this is ridiculous! *canned laugh track plays while I'm mauled to death by various audience members.*
Ok CZcams algorithm, I watched it. Also, if I'm understanding how this dulcigurdy works, it seems like the wheel is causing the drone strings to vibrate perfectly parallel to the frets. This would cause only minimal energy loss. If the axis of vibration was even slightly off parallel, the strings would strike the frets instead of sliding on top of them and the vibrations would be dampened out very quickly. On top of that you have the wheel that is adding energy back into the drone strings to keep them vibrating.
I agree, this is what I came up with as well.
I think you're right.. it's just limited to one mode of vibration, like a laser.
Now thats goofy
put the automatic chord player on that thing - very cool
Thank you.
And these knobs, these go to eleven.
That song sounds like his hat looks.
cool idea
Thank you.
Lorn unplugged.
Why is your banjo trapped in a guillotine?
It's not.
Just found this channel, thanks for sharing your inventions, crazy unique stuff!
Thank you.
I'm not sure if you've stumbled on something or trodden in something. Either way I wouldn't rush to give up your day job. If this IS your day job then I'd certainly give it up.
Neither this, nor anything else, is my day job.
An unusual, but very good song. Especially the melody and the harmonies are something absolutely revolutionary to my ears. I would say 'United Kingdom 12 points'!👍
if you were some bard in a mystical land... You'd be fired by the kings court and barred from playing in taverns.
I have been barred from a tavern in the real world, but that was for saying things on Facebook, not singing or playing an instrument.
The tavern I'm barred from is on the same road as the bookshop with no name.
You should make a sampler for this it would be so good for anything eerie/horror
Why is this man trying to play a chair back?
The sound of anguish