any imstrumentalists out there?

[buzzingtalk]

any one on this board play instruments?

a few weeks ago i started learning how to play the saw.

for those not in the know, check this bad boy out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6WIsP48 ... re=related

its fun as fuck, not as hard as it looks either. get a saw from a shop, a cello bow and some resin and ya sorted. wanna record some of it and sample it for ym dissertation in the new year, sawcore!

[Beatmonkey]

Yea I've seen it done a few times, never had a go but it looks fun, would be the sorta thing I'd enjoy playin. Have you ever seen those "thunder in a can" (fuck knows its real name) instruments, I made myself one of them. You can't do massive amounts of things with it but you can get rhythmical patterns going on not just random bursts of thunderyness. (If you havn't seen one it's the cardboard bit from bog roll with a wooden/plastic plate glued into the bottem that has a spring attached in the centre)

But the weird instrument I lust after the most is a hang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd58pPgmivI <--Altho thats recorded with a contact mic so isn't quite its natural sound, look at some others for that) portable steel drum vibes, you couldn't fail The only trouble is you have to fly out to switzerland, go to the makers and get it made specialy for you which costs about a grand not includeing travel. And they only do it a few times a year in stricly limited numbers.

[buzzingtalk]

oh wow that hang drum sounds georgous!! i want one!! but i looked em up online and yes, as you said, they are verry difficult to get hold of. ive never seen/heard of one till today...one of those and a saw would sound sick.

[Beatmonkey]

oh wow that hang drum sounds georgous!! i want one!! but i looked em up online and yes, as you said, they are verry difficult to get hold of. ive never seen/heard of one till today...one of those and a saw would sound sick.

Yea not many people have heard of hangs, the people who make them like that exclusivity factor. I talked to one bloke who used to be a fairly average percussionist working hard but still never really getting many gigs. Then he got a hang and suddenly as he traveld around everyone and anyone wanted to jam with him so now hes got loads of connections. But yea its a beautiful sound, nice and verby