1976: MUSICIANS BEHOLD! The KALEIDOPHON! | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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- “It’s the mixed marriage between a violin and a plastic drainpipe.”
David Vorhaus demonstrates his wonderful new instrument, the Kaleidophon, as well as an array of excellent jumpers.
The instrument is played entirely using the left hand, leaving the right hand free to manipulate the sound.
Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 2 December, 1976.
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You can tell this guy is chilled and intelligent. He knows exactly how the electronics work. Smart guy.
I would love to see lookmumnocomputer create one of these!
In the last two seconds it almost became a very different video!
he was just playing his...instrument ;)
@@Zontar82 I think maybe 80% of playing that instrument is in the hips.
You had made tender, sweet love to that presenter and gave her the best orgasms she'd ever had in her life right after.
That’s wild!
Fantastic instrument to produce, groovy, spacey sounds. Also very symbolic of manhood, they way he holds it, while sitting down. 😅
A week later Anarchy In The UK was released & he binned it 😂
2:20 "Would it cost a lot?" ...as they pan across to what is now a highly valuable VCS3.... "The most expensive single item in this prototype is this plastic drain pipe." So back in 1976, a VCS3 was worth less than a bit of plastic pipe 😉
I think he's just talking about the "controller". The VCS3 was *never* cheap (just "cheaper" than a modular Moog)
You see that VCS3 of his ? Its serial number is 001 . That's because he was close friends with Peter Zinovieff the creator of the VCS3
So its a fancy ribbon controller for the VCS3. I wants one...
Groovy ☮️☯️⚛️
yeah got some very 60's mood from that
I have a suspicion that I saw this when it was broadcast, as the instrument seems familiar to me. It's kind of like a Chapman Stick only far cheaper, and arguably a different approach, with its preference for ribbons over strings.
They interviewed him again in 1979 where he showed even more of his crazy self built equipment
Brilliant lol.
So cool
That's rather nice. I like it!
This is so cool
I wonder who he was and what he went on to do next? I guess this instrument was the grandfather of the synth guitar?
He was in a band called White Noise. I don't know them but they're notable enough to have a Wikipedia page and Google images show recent pictures of him still playing instruments like this.
@@GhastlyCretin Oh, great thank you for the info.😃
It looks like he went on to be involved in the development of the Fairlight CMI, which was a big deal in 80s recording studios. It was copied a lot, too!
@@GhastlyCretin wow thanks for the gen! I was just wondering about him and his technical background- disappointed the beeb didn’t include any of that in the description.
@@jojojo8835 especially as one other member of White Noise was Delia Derbyshire , of BBC radiophonic workshop fame . They were very close friends.
Copies of white noise 2 strategically placed around the room 😊
I want one.
Far out man!
Why did you cut out the part where he plays the track from his album?
Dig the top man
I think he got a Pulsar LED watch on his arm. Anything cool here.
I never knew that sound they played on PBS in the 80s was from a dongitar...
Looks like a VS3
The first one made! He still has it :)
👍🏻
Is this from "Tomorrow's World"? If so, it possibly only survives as it was shot on - or transferred to - film.
It survives because the BBC has (or maybe had) one of the best archive departments ever especially since the 70's.
Was born in the USA. He's 80 now. Doesn't seem real....
Would have liked to have heard it in a performance accompanying other instruments.
You can listen to the album he had just made in this video, it's called White Noise 2
If that's Judith Hann asking the questions then we know where he got the idea for his hairstyle.
@DavidHilowitzMusic