What instrument you don't play, but you'd like to?

[methodistgirl]

For someone's namesake, I would like to try a Krommhorn! I heard some
guys play one and couldn't stop laughing!:grin:
judy tooley

 

[Mat]

There are two instruments I would really love to play to

1) Hammond organ
2) Soprano saxophone

Maybe I'll play saxophone someday but Hammond.... That would be a miracle.
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[Krummhorn]

For someone's namesake, I would like to try a Krommhorn! I heard some
guys play one and couldn't stop laughing!:grin:
judy tooley

Hi Judy,

The Krummhorn (Fr. Cromorne) is a different sound for sure ... almost nasal in sound with an absolute attack and release when played on the organ. This became my most favorite solo organ stop ever since I first heard one 40 or so years ago. I'll admit, it is a strange sound to get used to ... and won't be pleasing to every listener ... and can be an amusing sound, too.

 

[pnoom]

Hi pnoom,

I read the prog-archives article with the "swisscheseophone" and must conclude that it remains in someone's imagination. Now, there is an instrument which looks like a terribly malformed hunk of swiss cheese - its called an Ocarina. Click the link below:

http://saria.coolfreepage.com/games/oot/ocarina2.gif


Honestly and respectfully, pnoom - you tried to gin up interest - I bit, but found no substance in the bait, insofar as the gruyerophone is concerned.

I'll give you an A+ for creative thinking though.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

I'll scan the photo from the liner notes if you want to see a picture of it.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi pnoom,

I've been playing the contrabass trombone for 22 years and even toot the tuba sometimes. Many quarts of air are needed for playing the contrabass trombone and the tuba properly. No cheese, not even fermenting cheese can give off the quantity of pressurised wind necessary to power a solo wind instrument, even if its an oboe. Hey, try using a tuba mouthpiece on a piece of garden hose - it works!!! Listen to some recordings of PDQ Bach if you want to hear something really funky.

Yes, do send that scanned picture as a private message to me

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

 

[Krummhorn]

That... wasn't a joke. It's a real instrument. And I'd really like to learn it.

Have you a picture of this instrument? I think the community here is intrigued by the existence of such an instrument.

There have been some fairly bizarre creations used for special musical effects - like those used in PDQ Bach, etc.

 

[pnoom]

I haven't scanned it yet. I will try and remember to do so tonight.

 

[pnoom]

As promised, here is the picture of Pascal Vandenbulcke playing the gruyerophone. And if you question its authenticity, you can see (if you look closely) the text from the next page of the booklet on the back, as the scanner captured it as well.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi pnoom,

Hahahahahaha - a fancy form of a kazoo :grin::grin::grin:

I still won't classify it as a musical instrument, rather, a noise-maker. I would also love to see the Physics about the bits of cheese providing quantity and pressure of wind plus the vibration propagation through the instrument. When you buzz into a brass instrument mouthpiece, the instrument will amplify those vibrations. The air column being blown into the instrument serves as a "projecting medium". The exponential end of the horn, ergo, where the bell flares, gives the instrument its specific sound character. The player, of course, modulates the dynamics, imparts rhythm, can also give color to the sound.

Inputting bits of cheese into the bell of the gruyerophone can, maybe, if they all of a sudden are, by human intervention, inhaled/ingested, provide sustenance and an energy kick to the poor, beleaguered player of said instrument, thereby providing an air column, by human intervention, to make a noise. Otherwise, the cheese bits are incapable of providing the mouthpiece buzz necessary in order to make the instrument perform its intended function.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

 

[pnoom]

Next time I see Pascal Vandenbulcke, I'll ask him.

 

[Sybarite]

Tenor sax – gorgeous.

I'd also like to have the chance to have a real go on a big drum kit.

 

[methodistgirl]

Tenor sax – gorgeous.

I'd also like to have the chance to have a real go on a big drum kit.

I have tried to play a saxaphone and couldn't do it. I didn't have the wind
for the instrument. A clarinet is very easy and is made somewhat like the
tenor sax.
judy tooley

 

[Krummhorn]

Sybarite ...

Tenor sax ... luscious indeed ... A favorite ensemble to hear is a sax quartet or quintet. When I worked at Disneyland (US) years and years ago, there was an all sax quintet called the Keystone Kops that would play in one of the plazas. It was absolutely thrilling to hear.

 

[musicalis]

I would like to know and play trumpet, but I'll never buy such an instrument as I am sure, if I do it, I loose my wife and perhaps I'll be killed by my neighbours.
J-Paul

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hello Jean-Paul,

Yamaha produces a system called *Silent Brass* - Click on the link below:

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,,CNTID%25253D30739,00.html

This way you can practice up a storm and still maintain domestic peace with your wife and your neighbors.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

 

[methodistgirl]

I would like to try out a nyckelharpa. It is a violin like instrument from
finland. I just saw one and heard it. It was a real interesting instrument
to hear. Here in Kentucky you have instruments that are simular for
blue grass music up in the mountainous regon of the state. This strange
instrument looks like a cross from a violin or in our terms a fiddle and an
autoharp. It looks like some of our bluegrass instruments. Now you only
get to hear the guitar, fiddle, and banjo in blue grass music.
judy tooley

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi Judy,

The nyckelharpa is a folk instrument from Sweden - click the link below to see and read some info:

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...tbnh=110&tbnw=124t3ROR-TZBYWMgAOG-tG0BQ&prev=

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

 

[Contratrombone64]

I'd rather fancy having a go on the bassoon but as they're WAY too expensive to purchase, even a cheap student model, I guess it'll be a pipe dream (no pun intended).

 

[methodistgirl]

Hi Judy,

The nyckelharpa is a folk instrument from Sweden - click the link below to see and read some info:

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...tbnh=110&tbnw=124t3ROR-TZBYWMgAOG-tG0BQ&prev=

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

I know I messed up on the orgin of the instrument. I still find this
instrument to be very interesting. I never saw one in person. The
closest to it is an autoharp and a violin together with both musicians.
judy tooley

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi Judy,

Yes, it is a very fascinating musical instrument. It is rich in overtones when played, which give it a very sweet and syrupy sound.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce