Chaos Butterfly and Matt Davignon are bringing their unique forms of immersive improvised electroacoustic music up and down the West Coast. If you like this...
... yup, it is an Asian free reed instrument, known in China as the Sheng. it works and is played played (and sounds somewhat) like a harmonica. unlike the...
Lander Bouwen wrote: no, but it's the nicest one of those i ever saw...it's one of those inochinese multi reed thigs, i forget the name.. wish ... -- "The...
hey, start by looking up the 'ken, from northern Thailand and Laos. Each type has a separate name, so this is just a starting point. These things sound ...
Brian Ransom
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Dec 2, 2005 12:32 am
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That looks like bone mounts on that Sheng, like some western pipes. It really is very attractive. I've heard recordings of a Thailand 'Khene', but not playing...
There are variations throughout Asia. I acnnot tell you what the differences are. An ex girlfriend bought one for me in China where she lives. They are fun and...
Hi everyone: I'm interested in making more home-made instruments for use in sample creation for morphing into ambient music. I have had good fortune playing...
I love the crash sound the silverware makes when I dump it out of the dishwasher basket. Not exactly ambient, but maybe you could soften and stretch it in...
... i dunno about soft ware, but most pawn shops have used wrenches for 25 cents each, which would cost 10.00 new.. wish ... -- "The Essence of Tyranny is the...
... As others have said, it's a Chinese sheng - a fairly typical 17-pipe version, although it is a little unusual in that it appears to have a wooden wind...
In Peter Murphy's Band (if my memory serves) THe percussionist had a set of double ended wrenches(of course his were new and clean and shiny;), but the point...
while you are shopping thrift stores for hardware and flatware, pick up an assortment of teacups and find some place quiet with a hard floor to record them...
they went to 30% off today at my store. perhaps they are closer to 50% off where you are. i believe a violin, trumpet, flute and clarinet are available. there...
... if you are at all interested in building instruments, then by all means buy Bart's book "Musical Instrument Design"...!! for a project like your wrench...
Did you notice Target having effects pedals in stock, by the way? My local store now has their own brand of distortion, wah, and chorus. I'm sure it's an...
i had forgotten to mention that, thanks. i'll keep an eye out for sales on those too. they seem pretty generic but might be a good target for circuit-bending,...
Hi everyone! I stole this idea from/was inspired by Novosonic, but scaled it up a bit since I play bass guitar... I built an instrument out of a stainless...
i would agree! makes me want to cobble something together out of what i have in the garage. i have to ask, what tools did you need to drill the holes in the...
Great job, it reminds me a little bit of "The Magic Pipe" that www.that1guy.com uses. As a matter of fact I've seen him play Iron Man live on it as well. ... ...
I've been contemplating building a variation on a prepared guitar and wanted to add strings, such a sympathetic strings under the other strings and add a...
Sorry, should have read http://windworld.com/products/catalog.htm#hardware pups at the bottom of the page. ;) chi ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
... i'm not sure that anyone ever came up with a source for the Gotoh buzz bridge (a direct descendent of Vincent Bell's design from the Danelectro/Coral...
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