I've had the pleasure of playing some of these such as the lazer harp and the hang metal drum things. I must say that the sound from that last one is haunting and beautiful!
I've actually heard the stalacpipe organ and it's a very beautiful instrument, although kind of creepy when you're standing there in the cavern and hear one song coming from all over the place. If I remember correctly, some of the stalactites used are close to a mile away.
Benjamin Franklin didn't invent the Glass Harmonica, he adapted existing designs to make an improved sounding device. There are several different people credited with making it, each added something new to existing designs. Franklin was just the last one to do so.
The only hang drums I've seen were played solo - the idea that you could play harmony, or with other hang players could make for a very interesting sound. Some of those other instruments produce hauntingly beautiful sounds.
music is what created life and keeps it moving!! musical instruments is something more valuable then diamonds and gold because it sings us to our amazing escapes!!
#9, #5 & #2 are really cool, I can live without the rest. That guy that makes instruments outta all sorts of bits n bobs etc: that's a pretty cool craft, but I don't really consider that that should be seen as "new musical instruments". I reckon we'll hear new kinds of music - especially film scores - coming from the Wheel Harp, and I'd really love it if the Sharpsichord could be altered a bit to make it a bit more like other instruments in terms of size, mobility and playability because that instrument needs to be added to little Gypsy-Jazz small bands, the really raw, rattley kind of sound, and music that has that kind of character to it.
I've been thinking it would a cool challenge, where a sound is electronically synthesized and someone tries to make a non-synthesizer instrument that mimics the sound as closely as possible. It could be made from any materials, so much potential
Thanks for the video, and thank you for the final words that keep the boundaries open for others. I believe you used Vera Meyer with the beginning sequence playing the glass harmonica. I met her summer of 2011 in Cambridge while the university regatta races were in session. I volunteered to be a type of organ grinder monkey spinning the instrument as she played the Harry Potter theme and the national anthems of various countries to the visitors from other countries. Boston/Cambridge was a great place to meet many strange buskers. I caught Leonard Solomon near Brattle St., and I mentioned that I knew his work from the Ellipsis Arts releases that Bart Hopkin (a man who greatly supported experimental homemade instruments) put out (Leonard was on the blue "Orbitone..." one, while Ken Butler, who you featured was on the yellow "Gravikord...." one). As we talked he mentioned that he declined an appearance on America's Got Talent; I can't remember if it was because of the shameful way guys like Ken Butler or Art Paul Schlosser were treated (and that's cool that they regarded you well on the show, Special). Regardless, cool guy to meet. My travels took me to Pittsburgh where I saw an odd instrument near Katz Plaza in 2004. It was a "Cloud Harp", and it was a 70's retro wood style post-modern public art construction that sent a laser up to "read" the atmosphere and cloud patterns" and then would generate a variety of various random sounds corresponding to the meteorological conditions (Vimeo has some clips-get on the ball, RUclips!)-some noisy, some low and ambient. very Lynchian. Also, the Willy St. Food Co-op in Madison attracts great buskers. One guy played Bach pieces on a hang there. Speaking of college towns, one traveling banjo doctor who delved into really deconstructing music was Eugen Chadbourne. His favorite "noisies" to bust out are the electric rake or electric toaster whether or not the venue will allow him to use them or not. He has been" in cahoots" with Michigan's own Frank Pahl who has designed many bizarre musical automatons (one using those kiddie cornpopper pushers and a steel drum). Bart Hopkin profiled Frank in one of his newsletters. A couple more instruments to check out from the ellipsis Arts series Hopkin put out are Sarah Hopkin's Harmonic Whirlies, Stiltophones, and Waterphones (the kind Tom Waits was playing in Mystery Men).
i listen'd to the the earth harp for too long. i nearly cried at the slow tone and tempo the chick made . and i wish the sharpsicord was patented and made sale. cause i want one
The laser harp is not a new instrument since Jean Michel Jarre already used it in 1981 in the concerts in China. However you have forgotten the 2 most revolutionary of all musical instruments. The synthesizer with which you can get millions of different sounds and effects and the sampler, with which, taking samples of sounds you can make music with them. The best example of what can be done with the latter is the album Zoolook by Jean Michel Jarre. A mythical musical album.
Can I suggest checking out Ellen Fullman's Long-string instrument? The Earth Harp has longer strings, granted, but given that Ellen's instrument pre-dates it by many years and is fundamentally the same, it seems hard to suggest the Earth Harp is a musical instrument invention?
For the record, a Tesla coil generates high-voltage, high-frequency, low-amperage currents. Static electricity is high-voltage, zero-frequency, (potentially) high-amperage. The following is from www.teslasystems.com/faq/ Static electricity generators and thunderstorm clouds cause large amounts of electric charge to build up in one area, and an opposite charge to build up in another area. If the voltage rises sufficiently high, a spark will jump between these two areas. The spark will generally last only a fraction of a second. In contrast, the output from a Tesla Coil actually oscillates between a positive and negative voltage very rapidly (usually hundreds of thousands of times per second).
I remember like a year ago me and my friend found this really cool video of this dude called Special Head who did a cool trick on some talent show. Halfway through this video I realized who it was by...
+Special Head I suppose that's fair on the pyrophone. It was never built until modern times but the design is from Franklin if I recall correctly. If you're familiar with the (old) Star Trek movie and the sound of a V'ger in it, that's the most well known sound example of a blaster beam. It's a 12-18 foot instrument with some variety of metal string and movable pickups. You play it with artillery shells generally and it makes bizarre, otherworldly drones. I'm not sure what your cutoff for new is so it may not apply either as it was constructed in the early 70s. Edit: Another prominent example I forgot about is the sound of Jang Fett's bombs in the asteroid belt scene in Attack of the Clones.
I would like to hear Randevous IV, Equinox -J.M.Jare ; Arrival, I have a dream, Chiquitita -ABBA ; Ensamer Hirte, Ciocarlia -G. Zanfir ; Mariage D'Amour, For Elise, Love Story, Romeo & Juliet, Winter Sonata,The Sound of Silence, Ballade pour Adeline -Richard Clayderman ; Right here waiting -Richard Marx ; The blue Danube -Johan Strauss ; I what to break free, -Queen ; ... singin by the musical instrument Yaybahara .
Some of these give some pretty unique sounds (I like #10 the most, I think). But Hybrid Visions sounds awful, with more emphasis on shoving junk together than on producing a good sound. Like it was done for the sake of visual art, rather than musical.
That wheel harp... I'm in love.
Earth harp sounds so gentle and beautiful ^.^ It must be really fun to play it!
Homura Akemi cute cat
I've had the pleasure of playing some of these such as the lazer harp and the hang metal drum things. I must say that the sound from that last one is haunting and beautiful!
9:25 sounds so beautiful!!!
+Alex Fa Agreed, that's fantastic...
WOOOOOH
Dude you are honestly really good at explaining things. Please do more Top 10s, this one is so much more in-depth than most I've seen on youtube
I've actually heard the stalacpipe organ and it's a very beautiful instrument, although kind of creepy when you're standing there in the cavern and hear one song coming from all over the place. If I remember correctly, some of the stalactites used are close to a mile away.
Wow as a musician this vid opened my mind !!
Really great! Thanks for making video and sharing! I've made a few weird instruments myself, but none as weird as these! I just love them all!
I've watched a lot of these Top 10 lists or compilations on the topic, and I can tell you: this is the first good one!
Benjamin Franklin didn't invent the Glass Harmonica, he adapted existing designs to make an improved sounding device. There are several different people credited with making it, each added something new to existing designs. Franklin was just the last one to do so.
Some of these sound incredible!
The only hang drums I've seen were played solo - the idea that you could play harmony, or with other hang players could make for a very interesting sound. Some of those other instruments produce hauntingly beautiful sounds.
I love you,Special Head! I really loved you when you went on America's Got Talent,and I still like you!
music is what created life and keeps it moving!! musical instruments is something more valuable then diamonds and gold because it sings us to our amazing escapes!!
#9, #5 & #2 are really cool, I can live without the rest. That guy that makes instruments outta all sorts of bits n bobs etc: that's a pretty cool craft, but I don't really consider that that should be seen as "new musical instruments".
I reckon we'll hear new kinds of music - especially film scores - coming from the Wheel Harp, and I'd really love it if the Sharpsichord could be altered a bit to make it a bit more like other instruments in terms of size, mobility and playability because that instrument needs to be added to little Gypsy-Jazz small bands, the really raw, rattley kind of sound, and music that has that kind of character to it.
The Hang is the best.
Direct, simple and very musical.
I've been thinking it would a cool challenge, where a sound is electronically synthesized and someone tries to make a non-synthesizer instrument that mimics the sound as closely as possible. It could be made from any materials, so much potential
7:48 that reminds me of the marble machine by wintergatan
Thanks for the video, and thank you for the final words that keep the boundaries open for others.
I believe you used Vera Meyer with the beginning sequence playing the glass harmonica. I met her summer of 2011 in Cambridge while the university regatta races were in session. I volunteered to be a type of organ grinder monkey spinning the instrument as she played the Harry Potter theme and the national anthems of various countries to the visitors from other countries.
Boston/Cambridge was a great place to meet many strange buskers. I caught Leonard Solomon near Brattle St., and I mentioned that I knew his work from the Ellipsis Arts releases that Bart Hopkin (a man who greatly supported experimental homemade instruments) put out (Leonard was on the blue "Orbitone..." one, while Ken Butler, who you featured was on the yellow "Gravikord...." one). As we talked he mentioned that he declined an appearance on America's Got Talent; I can't remember if it was because of the shameful way guys like Ken Butler or Art Paul Schlosser were treated (and that's cool that they regarded you well on the show, Special). Regardless, cool guy to meet.
My travels took me to Pittsburgh where I saw an odd instrument near Katz Plaza in 2004. It was a "Cloud Harp", and it was a 70's retro wood style post-modern public art construction that sent a laser up to "read" the atmosphere and cloud patterns" and then would generate a variety of various random sounds corresponding to the meteorological conditions (Vimeo has some clips-get on the ball, RUclips!)-some noisy, some low and ambient. very Lynchian.
Also, the Willy St. Food Co-op in Madison attracts great buskers. One guy played Bach pieces on a hang there.
Speaking of college towns, one traveling banjo doctor who delved into really deconstructing music was Eugen Chadbourne. His favorite "noisies" to bust out are the electric rake or electric toaster whether or not the venue will allow him to use them or not.
He has been" in cahoots" with Michigan's own Frank Pahl who has designed many bizarre musical automatons (one using those kiddie cornpopper pushers and a steel drum). Bart Hopkin profiled Frank in one of his newsletters.
A couple more instruments to check out from the ellipsis Arts series Hopkin put out are Sarah Hopkin's Harmonic Whirlies, Stiltophones, and Waterphones (the kind Tom Waits was playing in Mystery Men).
8:19 finally a good use for a condom!
go get em Ken, right on Andy
I'm inspired to create my own instrument.
The Spoon are a well-known folk music instrument in austria since a long time
The hang is also called the space drum
nice work on putting that top ten together. it's a big world out there
i listen'd to the the earth harp for too long. i nearly cried at the slow tone and tempo the chick made . and i wish the sharpsicord was patented and made sale. cause i want one
The laser harp is not a new instrument since Jean Michel Jarre already used it in 1981 in the concerts in China. However you have forgotten the 2 most revolutionary of all musical instruments. The synthesizer with which you can get millions of different sounds and effects and the sampler, with which, taking samples of sounds you can make music with them. The best example of what can be done with the latter is the album Zoolook by Jean Michel Jarre. A mythical musical album.
My grandpa used to always play with spoons, so I don't see it as a weird instrument.
The Chateau Poulie, sounds great as ambient, but there are no other video in RUclips about it
Forgot about the Viola Organista, something that only recently became real.
Cool video
Wow this was awesome! I want to play all of those!
These all make my head hurt and feel trippy
6:22 that’s actually a exhaust mixer from an aircraft jet engine
The hang is just a steel drum
7:30 wintergatan marble machine
Can I suggest checking out Ellen Fullman's Long-string instrument? The Earth Harp has longer strings, granted, but given that Ellen's instrument pre-dates it by many years and is fundamentally the same, it seems hard to suggest the Earth Harp is a musical instrument invention?
For the record, a Tesla coil generates high-voltage, high-frequency, low-amperage currents. Static electricity is high-voltage, zero-frequency, (potentially) high-amperage.
The following is from www.teslasystems.com/faq/
Static electricity generators and thunderstorm clouds cause large amounts of electric charge to build up in one area, and an opposite charge to build up in another area. If the voltage rises sufficiently high, a spark will jump between these two areas. The spark will generally last only a fraction of a second.
In contrast, the output from a Tesla Coil actually oscillates between a positive and negative voltage very rapidly (usually hundreds of thousands of times per second).
i would love that last one!!!!
Also Harry Partch's orchestra of JI instruments with up to 43 note per octave.
If that wheel harp is a really thing I really would like one its like a violin piano
WONDERFUL!
what about the Wintergatan marble machine?
Why isn't the "Wintergatan marble machine" on this list?
Nice
I can remember ken Butler from MTV back when they played music.
i love them all!!!
Best: Number 10 and 1..
From the previous: the glass harmonica.
+Special head didn't I see you on America's got talent?
Two dudes playing those metal drums were soooooo high lol
where is marble machine by wintergatan?
outstanding!
The zeusophone... That was awolnation playing
dope
thank s danny
3:11 the first real life instance of background music in real life lol
I'm watching this to do my school work
love you and your vidz
thankz
9:42 The -Siamese- conjoined triplet guitar.
I remember like a year ago me and my friend found this really cool video of this dude called Special Head who did a cool trick on some talent show. Halfway through this video I realized who it was by...
Nrº 9 looks like a something you'd see in a dark jedi band.
No mention of the pyrophone or blasterbeam?
+Special Head I suppose that's fair on the pyrophone. It was never built until modern times but the design is from Franklin if I recall correctly. If you're familiar with the (old) Star Trek movie and the sound of a V'ger in it, that's the most well known sound example of a blaster beam. It's a 12-18 foot instrument with some variety of metal string and movable pickups. You play it with artillery shells generally and it makes bizarre, otherworldly drones. I'm not sure what your cutoff for new is so it may not apply either as it was constructed in the early 70s.
Edit: Another prominent example I forgot about is the sound of Jang Fett's bombs in the asteroid belt scene in Attack of the Clones.
Hey if you haven't already, check out the marble machine...... It's amazing!
Can someone please tell me how the song is called that was played on the wheel harp?
the hang is based on the steel pan from Trinidad and Tobago.
Apparently any piece of junk that makes noise is now a "new instrument"
.....except the wheel harp. That one seems interesting and viable.
the hang and earth harp are pretty cool too
#8 reminds me of the sponge Bob episode when sponge Bob made the giant statues of him so the jelly fish would stop fucking with him .
What about the wintergaten marble machine?
2:25: BIOSHOCK CONFIRMED!!!!
The sharpsicord reminds me of a Caha di Orgel.
thanks
i like hang guys very much what's their band called?
Check out That 1 Guy. He has a very strange electrical instrument that he plays.
Yayyyyy for the YAYBAHAR!!!!
1:56 song is Awolnation better kill my self gravity remix
0:55 Wow, Benjamin Franklin Is The Best!
Next time would you mind doing New instruments? These have all been out for quite a long time.
I wonder how a hang attached to a Yaybahar spring/resonator system would sound...
What about the marble machine by wintergatan
#1 Sounds like something used q few thousand yeqrs ago
the best one was that 1000 foot stringed harp
It's official. I want s zeusaphone.
Number 8 can become a horror movie scene
I love the yaybahar
I SO WANT A YAYBAHAR......AWSOME....
But where's wintergatan's marble machine it's supposed to be on the list
I would like to hear Randevous IV, Equinox -J.M.Jare ; Arrival, I have a dream, Chiquitita -ABBA ; Ensamer Hirte, Ciocarlia -G. Zanfir ; Mariage D'Amour, For Elise, Love Story, Romeo & Juliet, Winter Sonata,The Sound of Silence, Ballade pour Adeline -Richard Clayderman ; Right here waiting -Richard Marx ; The blue Danube -Johan Strauss ; I what to break free, -Queen ; ... singin by the musical instrument Yaybahara .
musical is used loosely here!
guys whats the name of the song played on the zeusaphone? I used to listen that song but just cant remember the name.
Some of these give some pretty unique sounds (I like #10 the most, I think). But Hybrid Visions sounds awful, with more emphasis on shoving junk together than on producing a good sound. Like it was done for the sake of visual art, rather than musical.
I think Stan Laurel lead the way, when he played his bed like a harp....!!!
He was first....
3:18 AK-47 😂😂
i want a dron!!!
ahhhhh what is the song from the wheel harp?
4:31
The dron sounds like a metal song begging
Sounds like Dazed and Confused by Zeppelin.
This has a lot of harps
Number 3 is the most Euro-vision shit ive ever seen.
And the yabrahand sounds like a violin combined with a didgeridoo
"new music instruments"? didnt realize ben franklin was so current.