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29 May 2010, 12:05 am

leejosepho wrote:
oboe


there is something about the oboe, it reminds me of a yellow smileyface. it has been described as a plaintive instrument, but i find that the total opposite of the truth. it sounds smiley and happy to me, at least when played well.
now the english horn/cor anglais is a sad-sounding horn.
a really interesting instrument is the bass oboe/heckelphone. it sounds like a cross between a bassoon and an oboe.



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29 May 2010, 12:45 am

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Musical saw is nice.


i tried playing one of those things, and i utterly failed to get any sound out of it at all.


Were you using a mallet or a bow? I think mallets are tons easier with saws.


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29 May 2010, 12:47 am

auntblabby wrote:
leejosepho wrote:
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there is something about the oboe, it reminds me of a yellow smileyface.


It makes me think of ducks but that's probably only because I was raised on the Leonard Bernstein recording of "Peter and the Wolf"


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29 May 2010, 1:20 am

Sparrowrose wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Moog wrote:
Musical saw is nice.


i tried playing one of those things, and i utterly failed to get any sound out of it at all.


Were you using a mallet or a bow? I think mallets are tons easier with saws.


rosined-up bow. i had not heard of mallets used on the saw before. i was told it was the wrong kind of saw, it was too stiff and short, that i needed a 5' crosscut saw for it to work.



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29 May 2010, 1:49 am

auntblabby wrote:
Sparrowrose wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Moog wrote:
Musical saw is nice.


i tried playing one of those things, and i utterly failed to get any sound out of it at all.


Were you using a mallet or a bow? I think mallets are tons easier with saws.


rosined-up bow. i had not heard of mallets used on the saw before. i was told it was the wrong kind of saw, it was too stiff and short, that i needed a 5' crosscut saw for it to work.


Mallet isn't that common but I've seen it and tried it (using a glockenspiel mallet because that's what I had)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW55K2IS4x8


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29 May 2010, 4:33 am

auntblabby wrote:
leejosepho wrote:
oboe


there is something about the oboe, it reminds me of a yellow smileyface. it has been described as a plaintive instrument, but i find that the total opposite of the truth. it sounds smiley and happy to me, at least when played well.
now the english horn/cor anglais is a sad-sounding horn.
a really interesting instrument is the bass oboe/heckelphone. it sounds like a cross between a bassoon and an oboe.


Highly sensitive to everything, especially weather conditions, humidity, temperature etc, difficult to play in the beginning but very rewarding in the end. It gets under your skin so easily. :)



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29 May 2010, 5:33 am

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the gamelan produces a calming, ancient melodic sound, softly percussive and very round and full. there is much music that would benefit from this sound.


I love gamelan. I used to listen to gamelan music all day for a period.


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29 May 2010, 5:35 am

auntblabby wrote:
Moog wrote:
Musical saw is nice.


i tried playing one of those things, and i utterly failed to get any sound out of it at all.


That's really cool. I'd love to have a go, but I've never seen one.


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29 May 2010, 6:04 am

I love renaissance and baroque instruments like this ukulele:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4l0g1kMPsk[/youtube]



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29 May 2010, 6:10 am

Or some OTHERS

Renaissance lute:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mAyfRDQSUc&feature=related[/youtube]



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31 May 2010, 1:03 am

a contrabass harmonica.



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31 May 2010, 4:09 am

B-flat Hoover with detachable C sucker.

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31 May 2010, 2:56 pm

Guitar and Hammond Organ. I loved Jon Lord´s solos when he played with Deep Purple! :)


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01 Jun 2010, 3:34 am

the peterson beer bottle organ. sounds a bit like a calliope.



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01 Jun 2010, 3:55 am

auntblabby wrote:
the peterson beer bottle organ. sounds a bit like a calliope.


are they played by air passing across the tops? Tuned with different amounts of liquids?
It is so much fun learning about new and unusual instruments!


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02 Jun 2010, 3:27 am

Sparrowrose wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
the peterson beer bottle organ. sounds a bit like a calliope.


are they played by air passing across the tops? Tuned with different amounts of liquids?
It is so much fun learning about new and unusual instruments!


you might investigate oddmusic.com. some truly weird instruments there. anyways, the peterson beer bottle organ blows across the tops of beer bottles tuned by measured amounts of mineral oil [to avoid pitch change via evaporation of non-oil tuning fluids such as water].