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CircuitEYE · Post by **CircuitEYE** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:37 am

Aloysius wrote:

They call this monstrosity a ''banjo''.

How do you keep a banjo player from drowning in a foot of water?
(below.....)

Take your foot off his head.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:29 am

People don't like bajos much, round these parts...

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:28 am

Aloysius wrote:

They call this monstrosity a ''banjo''.

And this baby monster is a godzuki... I mean banjuke

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:51 am

cron · Post by **cron** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:20 am

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:00 am

Does sampling a voice making weird sounds count?

I once sampled myself making "b" sounds (regular, egressive, ingressive) and called it a "Croatian Lip Drum." Some sfz round-robin trickery… and it was about as useless as you'd imagine.

I also recorded myself burping* to a metronome, did some pitch-shifting and time-stretching, applied an amp sim set on Disintegrate, then sprinkled some reverb, and it made pretty cool monster noises.

* My only notable talent is burping at will, alas.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:52 am

http://www.vegetableorchestra.org

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:05 am

Yatmandu · Post by **Yatmandu** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:29 am

sbj · Post by **sbj** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:34 am

Deep Purple · Post by **Deep Purple** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:45 am

I think the xaphoon was a missed opportunity - I bought one as I thought it was a good idea and I liked the idea of carrying one around, but I don't play it as much as I thought I would. It's great that it's a cheap, portable way of playing a single reed instrument, but it has quite a few design faults.

For a start, it introduces an unfamiliar fingering scheme - it's not boehm fingering, and it's not a six finger system - it's some odd hybrid of the two, which frankly doesn't make things any easier as every key requires learning a completely new fingering pattern. The other thing I don't like is that there is a lip on the integrated mouthpiece that I think is to stop the ligature from slipping off, even when it's been loosened - this implies that the reed should be on there permanently, as I have to completely remove the ligature to put the reed on. Not a good idea.

Still, it's an interesting instrument that has a kind of clarinet-like quality to it when played, without having to carry around a full sized clarinet.

sbj · Post by **sbj** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:55 am

Or how about just a straw

https://vimeo.com/51000433

sbj · Post by **sbj** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:31 pm

The more the merrier

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:51 pm

As a guitarist (of sorts) this appeals...

Deep Purple · Post by **Deep Purple** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:06 pm

Googly Smythe wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:51 pm As a guitarist (of sorts) this appeals...

Interesting instrument, but his playing bores the shit out of me

Let's see some unusual instruments