The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Basvarken on February 13, 2016, 02:24:12 AM
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Never heard of these before.
Glass Harmonica invented bij Benjamin Franklin in 1761
From Wikipedia:
"In Franklin's treadle-operated version, 37 bowls were mounted horizontally on an iron spindle. The whole spindle turned by means of a foot pedal. The sound was produced by touching the rims of the bowls with water moistened fingers. Rims were painted different colors according to the pitch of the note: A (dark blue), B (purple), C (red), D (orange), E (yellow), F (green), G (blue), and accidentals were marked in white.[11] With the Franklin design, it is possible to play ten glasses simultaneously if desired, a technique that is very difficult if not impossible to execute using upright goblets. Franklin also advocated the use of a small amount of powdered chalk on the fingers, which under some acidic water conditions helped produce a clear tone."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEKlRUvk9zc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPfoFZYso8
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That is so cool!
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Remarkable!
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Very cool, but a bit unwieldy to take to blues jams. :vader:
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I'll drink to that...! :mrgreen:
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Ben showed up at a blues jam with one of this and was never invited back.
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Ben showed up at a blues jam with one of this and was never invited back.
Thus establishing a tradition for harp players in the generations to come...
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I want one!
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This instrument was the centerpiece of a PBS Sherlock Holmes mystery recently. The lady playing it went insane. Too complicated to spell it out here, but it had to do with chemicals leaching out if the poorly made glass. Weird!
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Oops, it was a film, not PBS. "Mr. Holmes" is about Holmes at 90 and trying to solve an unsolved case. A good flick imho. ;D
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I believe he went into the wrong direction for his invention to win mass appeal ...
"With the Franklin design, it is possible to play ...
drink!!!
... ten glasses simultaneously if desired, a technique that is very difficult if not impossible to execute using upright goblets."
A promising invention, yet ultimately misguided.
Has anybody called David Gilmour yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3AosAlaODw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7QgXW8SsnU
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A promising invention, yet ultimately misguided.
Has anybody called David Gilmour yet?
Now that is awesome.
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Here's another strange musical instrument. Not the sound I'd expect from a bass slapped by marbles.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/this-ludicrous-new-instrument-makes-music-with-2000-marbles/
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hence the expression 'to loose one's marbles'. :o
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Rube Goldberg lives!!
(http://users_v2.section101.com/memberdata/ru/rubegoldberg/photos/rubegoldberg_photo_gal_4153_photo_143261428_lr.jpg)
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That marble machine needs a treadle instead of a hand crank. Poor guy probably went off to collapse at the end of the song.
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Here's another strange musical instrument. Not the sound I'd expect from a bass slapped by marbles.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/this-ludicrous-new-instrument-makes-music-with-2000-marbles/
Wow - steam punk meets Edward Scissorhands and it even sounds good too - I'm impressed. Tubular marbles, alright!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
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Beautiful... and totally pointless, which makes it even more endearing in its eccentricity... :mrgreen:
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Wow that was great!
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I like what he does with fretting the bass strings. Took me a minute to realize what was happening because they weren't showing the bass portion when it entered the song.
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It just dawned on me as well, he's not tapping, but actually fretting as the marbles hit the strings giving the bass that mildly slappy sound.
If this guy did a CD, I'd buy it no sweat, I really like the "early Oldfield transported into the present"-character of his music. And his mad scientist-spiel of course, plus he really seems to enjoy what he is doing and is not sour-faced about it.