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random thoughts about obscure or interesting musical instruments and the people who make them and play them

Monday, January 28, 2008

50th Anniversary of Legos

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Google had this awesome image up on their search window this morning, reminding us that today is the 50th anniversary of Legos (or rather th...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Blackbells Website is LIVE

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The Blackbells company is a new company who are bringing a new version of the Hang Drum to market. Their site is now live and features a rea...

How to Build a Hank Drum

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Over the holidays, I had some down time to finally build a new "Hank Drum" based on the plans by Dennis Havlena. Here's a link...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

The Vegetable Orchestra

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Here's an a couple of awesome videos of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. They make all of their instruments out of vegetables before the ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Manu Delago Hang Music

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I discovered Manu Delago's hang music. This guys plays some wonderful music on the Hang Drum. I love this video:
Sunday, January 06, 2008

US Hang Manufacturers

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Rumors abound that there may be some new US manufacturers entering the market with new Hang-style instruments. After some research this morn...
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Monday, December 31, 2007

The Art of Tuning the Hang

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Here's a great blog entry about how to purchase a hang: http://www.hangblog.org/2006/11/27/how-to-buy-a-hang/ Here's a paper written...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Amazing "New" Electronic Music

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Check out the instruments these guys are playing: More info: http://www.maywadenki.com/
Sunday, November 11, 2007

Dennis Havlena - "Hank Drum"

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This is an awesome discovery for those you (like me) to own a "Hang Drum" by Panart, but can't afford to buy one (last one wen...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

CCRMA Concert

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Discover the newest directions in music and technology under development at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acousti...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

NorCal NoiseFest

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The NorCal Noisefest is this weekend (Oct 12-14) in Sacramento, CA. Here's the website with details: http://www.norcalnoisefest.com/

Flickr set of Awesome instruments

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Check out this flickr set of awesome homemade instruments.
Friday, August 17, 2007

Stewart MacDonald the best place to buy stuff for Stringed Instruments

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I recently discovered Stewart-MacDonald online . They have anything (parts, strings, other stuff) that you could need to build or repair a s...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Music from a box

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I discovered this wonderful example of using sampled sounds to create music. The premise was to give a 3 year old a cardboard box, some rubb...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

DIY Electronic Music Projects

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Here's a website with a bunch of do it yourself electronic musical projects: http://www.home-wrecker.com/articles.html
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Balloon Instruments

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Here's a great site dedicated to the " Balloon Bass ", a very simple instrument made with two balloons. The site includes seve...
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

NAMM 2006 Oddities

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I found a great link to a website by Barry Wood , who has visited and reviewed products from the Winter NAMM event. On his website he highli...
Saturday, March 25, 2006

"Kalimba thumbs"

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I've benn making several kalimba's in the last couple weeks. One of the side effects of tuning a new kalimba, or even playing the ka...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Check out ChucK

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ChucK is Princeton Universitys: Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language. " what is it? : ChucK is a new audio programming la...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

New BLOG on Frame Drums

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I've started a new blog, focused on framedrums, hand drums and middle eastern rhythms. It's at http://riqq.blogspot.com . I'll ...
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