Just got this link in email and wondered how many other such things are used to produce “music” of some sort or other.
Links to the sounds, if you please.
Buddy Rich playing a theater.
My first exposure to the stylophone.
Most STOMP performances would probably qualify. E.g.
The Beach Boys Good Vibrations features an electro-theremin.
Or you can watch Leon Thereminplay his invention.
The harp guitar is beautiful as is the sound. Tony Seeger playsThe Messenger. Stephen Bennett’s Hendrix cover The Wind Cries Maryis also nice.
You want bizarre? I got bizarre. The Daxophone.
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Theremin is what I came in to say.
Here’s my favorite performance. Epicness ensues at 2:45.
Here are the Mound City Blue Blowers performing I Ain’t Got Nobody and My Gal Sal on guitar, banjo, comb, can and suitcase.
Many normal instruments have weird versions of themselves.
Before checking out some accomplished eefing first see/hear Rolf Harris-Eefing Chimp and scout out the “related videos” until you get to Hee Haw’s Jimmie Riddle and Jackie Phelps Eefing and Hambone act or further. I suppose it’s a stretch to call those effects “instruments” but why not?
I was always impressed with Fleegle of the Banana Splits when he played the Caliopo Saxaphio Trumparimba Claribaso Trombophone.
Theremin? Try the Thoremin.
No discussion of bizarre musical instruments is complete without a mention of the Waterphone. Lots of YT videos, here’s one:
I discovered it because of its use in the music for one of my favorite movies, “Let the Right One In.”
I find pre-Moog synthesizers (or electronic music instruments) kind of fascinating. The first was the Telharmonium, from 1897. Others include the Ondes Martenot, the trautonium, the Ondioline, the Clavioline, and the Hammond organ.
No love yet for Ben Franklin’s glass armonica? It’s like a rotating stack of loosely-nested glass bowls you play with wet fingers.
And let us not forget the Great Stalacpipe Organ. Unfortunately, that one’s not very portable.
Harry Partch wasn’t content with the sound of typical musical instruments, so he invented and built whole orchestras of new ones. Check them out here: http://www.harrypartch.com/
The Large Hot Pipe Organ, which is a pyrophone.
Kinda sounds like a woodwind Taiko drum.
A Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) invention - the lagerphone. Enjoy.