Interesting Musical Inventions

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A friend told me about some speakers that were made out of concrete (the membranes were concrete too) .. He's still looking for the plans, because , while I believe it, I can't imagine it..

Here's a Lego Harpsichord http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord1thumb.jpg And it actually plays.

Seen any other wild inventions?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Also:

Dumbest homemade guitars ever.http://www.bunnybass.com/pictures/amusing/toiletguitar.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

How about the mutantrumpet?
http://www.levity.com/benneill/images/publicity/mt2-large.jpg

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

''Dumbest homemade guitars ever.''

cool...now you can guitar wank all you like. literally.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Rashaan Roland Kirk invented both the stritch and manzello - i'll see if i can find some photos... ¥

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

harry partch came up with roughly eight bazillion different
instruments to play his microtonal music....things with names
like cloud chamber bowls, zymo-zyl, spoils of war,boobams, etc.
definitely very weird, whatever else you think of it.

― n.b., Thursday, 26 September 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

According to the Penguin Jazz Guide, "In a music shop basement Kirk discovered a manzello and a stritch, rare horns apparently used in Spanish marching bands. The manzello approximated the pitch of the soprano saxophone... and the stritch was an off-pitch alto saxophone."

Mustn't forget Hans Reichel and his amazing daxophone!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 26 September 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I recently saw someone busking in Paris with a kind of trumpet/bagpipe hybrid - very Mulligan & O'Hare...

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I started to make a Theremin/Electric guitar. Not sure if it would be playable, but it would be capable of a lot of noise.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Still the best: Ben Franklins built this gadget out of glass bowls and a spinning wheel, and the musicians hands had to be wet for it to work. It made eerie, theremin-like sounds. I forget the name of it. Harmolodia, I think...

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Thursday, 26 September 2002 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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