Seven-bladed jaw harp
The experimental instrument played in this video is a variation on the kou xiang (a Chinese jaw harp). This one has seven blades though and is well tempered, referring to a common type of tuning in 20th century Western music. The sound reminds me a bit of Frampton on a talk box.
UPDATE: You can buy one here!
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The background music from Labyrinth would sound amazing on this thing.
Where can you buy one of these?
UPDATE: You can buy one here!
hmm, this appears to be something less than a jaw harp and more like an mbira that uses your mouth as the soundbox. sounds neat, but too fiddly.
also, does it come with the hat?
It's so lo-tech, but if you had told me it was electronic music I would have believed it.
but on the more electronic side,
take one jaw harp,
add psychedelics,
add loops,
et la voila!
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This is highly entertaining. I kind of want one, but what I would produce would be on the level of a party-favor kazoo, so I won't bother.
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Another post from David (with the dieing dating club and the dust in the eyes rabbinic custom) that opens up so many avenues to the imagination and creativity, inasmuch one doesn't take them too literally.
Thanks D.
64 Euros, $81 USD, $182 CDN
ouch!
kinda like a $1,200 harmonica.
More like $102CDN...
Well-temperment is not common in 20th century music. It's s twentieth century term that describes several different tuning systems from the 17th and 18th centuries. Nearly all 20th century classical music uses "equal temperment," which is not at all the same thing.
Cool video, though.