"He showed me how to strum and set me free to play. Three strings—past, present, and future—unified in one connective strum. I inhaled deeply to keep from crying. Yes, this is beautiful."
Oboe production. Quality musical instruments aren't cheap. Professional wind instruments are expensive, but nothing compared to professional (and historical) stringed instruments. Pipe organs, of course, are a separate entity, since they usually including an entire building. 😮
It seems this weekend my music making endeavours revolve around this #Instrument. This is my custom "modern" Jeli ngoni (also n'goni, koni, xalam, etc.), which differs a little from the traditional one in that it has a larger bowl-shaped body, wooden bridge, neck-through design, geared tuners and CNC'ed neck, compared to the traditional long-oval-shaped body, spike-lute (i.e. partial-through-neck) design, calabash bridge, leather ring tuners and dowel neck. #Ethnomusicology#Musodon
I find it frustrating that many articles state drums are the oldest #Instrument; often based on primates beating trees with sticks; a natural idiophone used for signalling, not a drum. AFAIK the oldest drum comes from China (5500BC).
Any skin, a finite resource until domestication of livestock (9000BC), would likely have be used for shelter and clothing. The flutes and rattles we know of are made from materials with less
essential utility; bone, horn, teeth, shells. #Ethnomusicology#Prehistory
Check out this super-cool instrument called a “DataBass.” Scott Mulvahill, the musician playing it in this video, is the person who invented it. It’s an upright bass with sample triggers affixed to the body. And it sounds absolutely delightful.
My long time musician friend and neighbour gave me some of his 'musical toys' as he called them.
Among them was a Japanese made Theremin that he "couldn't get going, but maybe I could make some use of it."
I did some digging and found out it's a Gakken Theremin Premium, made in 2008, sold for roughly $100 USD. I found the English manual pdf and got it working! Definitely finicky to calibrate but eventually I was able to coax around 3 and a half octave range out of it!
Similar in look to that of the tVox Tour, you wear a grounding strap on your left wrist, controlling volume, and pitch on the right. It has only one tone, but it has a 1/8" out jack, which I'm excited to plug into my modular envelope follower and see what happens!
okayyyyy if I play the pianosheet speed at at 0.25 speed i can play the easy part I've been particticing (first piece I'm working on for real,) without mistakes with both hands so I guess I have to practice practice practice and up the speed until I'm at the 1x speed! And then I can get to the hard part, practice both hand, repeat #piano#instrument#music
I love how that part is "fuck you in particular" (I know it's meant to be, which is funnier), but seriously I hate when I have to play it. I know it's going to be easier soon :)
Here are some guitars I've built over the past few years. The necks, freboards, and fretting were all done from scratch. Most of these have been commissions. All the hardware (tuners, pickups, bridges, strings) I buy from CBGitty. #guitar#homemade#luthier#music#bass#cigarboxguitar#instruments#commissions
Here is my most recent build, which I made for myself, and also the first guitar I actually built from a cigar box. I like to use hole-punched circles from holographic Pokemon cards as fret markers, poor man's mother of pearl. #guitar#cigarboxguitar#homemade#Instrument#luthier
#Farbe: Der Brooks Nachtkrapp Airborne (Chris Laut Signature Model) hat Farbe bekommen. Letzte Schicht fehlt noch. Ich freu mich derbe! 😎🤘😊🎸 Seid gespannt auf das Ergebnis!
The first time I saw a piano when I was a child I fell in love so I took classes and I remember that my teacher always had to tell me to open my eyes, because I closed them to feel the music through my fingers but she told me that I needed to read the notes 🤭 I love the power of music in my life.
The #planet is directly observed over 17 years by various instruments with different size of coronographs (the black disk in the #instrument occulting the star).
From 2004 to 2010 and from 2016 to 2018, the planet is too close to the star such as it is also behind the #coronograph.
β pic b is a young (12Myr) massive planet (~10Mjup) with period of ~20 yr 🪐