Really cool that someone managed to come up with something genuinely new and novel, with specific features that other similar instruments lack. Whether or not this ends up taking off (I think the world has been hesitant to embrace new instruments for a reason), hats off to the inventors for the excellent work done here.
its conical bore, instead of cylindrical (the tube gets wider throughout it's entire length, instead staying the same width all the way until the bell, like a clarinet) making it more like a fretless (soprano) saxophone
I think the price is high, considering there is no keywork or special hole placement. We just need the Chinese to make some clones for a few hundred dollars.
as goofy as this instrument is, I also just know that in like 10 years someone is going to be playing one of these and make the greatest music that I have ever heard
wow wow wow, as I understand, this tape covers the strip-shaped air duct, and where it's pressed down, everything higher up on the air duct is closed. To press down like a string to make the wind system work, and what a sound, simple and ingenious
It’s not really, it’s just a slide saxophone, and the design for the 3D print was posted to thingiverse a decade ago. The idea is cool, which is why it’s been around for a while; this iteration is just startup trash, sadly.
To play a fretless instrument is already a kind of crazy in my mind (I have played the clarinet in my teens, now I play the bass - with frets), but to imagine somebody waking up one morning and think, I wish I had a fretless woodwind instrument :D Congrats, this is true innovation, that actually looks something useful for the music scene.
What an incredible instrument I hope to save enough to purchase one one day, I've been fascinated by your design now for over a year so glad these made it to market, I can't wait to see them in action, in the hands of talented musicians
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A little pricey for my means, but golly you guys thank you SO MUCH for not obfuscating the mechanism! I’ve got a cedar tube and some strip magnets, and I’m not above mutilating a clarinet for the mouthpiece. I’m gonna try and DIY up my own!
@@NuncNuncNuncNuncyes they do. There's quite a lot of classical music written for sax, as well as orchestra with sax. There's even quartets with a sax Though almost all written before the mid twentieth century..
Probably it was the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in 2022! :) Here you can read about it more: glissonic.com/2024/05/10/part-2-what-has-happened-so-far-with-the-glissotar/
I’ll be honest, haven’t played an instrument since piano back in middle school ~25 years ago but this is genuinely innovative enough to make me want to practice it
Over the past 120 years, several attempts have been made to create sliding saxophones. You’re probably thinking of the King C Saxoprano. In this blog post, we showcase instruments similar to the Glissotar, including the King C Saxoprano: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/
I can't afford it, but it's a very normal price for people who have to make a living selling very small batches. Same everywhere, for example recumbent bikes.
@@chickenbobby666I'm in the process of creating a similar instrument (with a double reed rather than a sax mouthpiece). I'm making it out of wood, and I'm about 15 hours into it. (10 hours of modeling, 2 hours of material recovery, 3 hours of turning). And I'm almost done. If we consider the French hourly minimum wage (lowest legal salary), that’s €140. The materials didn't cost me anything but if I had to buy them it would cost me around a hundred euros at most. Considering that I have 10 hours of work left (in reality much less), it would cost a total of €390. We put in the margin, and that’s €500, then taxes (20% in France): €600. There is no industrial process, it is wood, made by hand. I imagine they use very different techniques but $1900 is just excessive. (and @Johnanderson9337 I could share the digital model if you want. (when it's finished))
If you don't mind plastic, there will eventually be designs on Thingiverse, and by eventually I mean there's been a prototype design posted for nearly a decade.
@@chickenbobby666considering you can hit print, then come back 12 hours later to get a finished part, not long at all. the printer is the one taking the time burden
I'm amazed none of the low notes cause a gap to form at one of the higher notes. Impressive! In my non-electronic music life, I'm the maker of Boyd Reeds, which are actually polyester double reeds, for Scottish smallpipes, and border pipes, chanters, and drones, which are a couple different groups of bagpipes. I've worked with various instrument makers, and personal clients often with historical instruments needing working double reeds, not sensitive to moisture, or lack thereof. I'd love to play around with this. back in the earlier 2000's I built my own simple pocket sax.
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I'm sorry but didn't this already existed? The King company used to make it in the early 20's in Cleveland, it was called a slide saxophone I think. Dr. Cohen owns one in his saxophone collection: ruclips.net/video/p-b6I1ihh2s/видео.html minute 7.19
Yep! The comments on it were, that it was more a novelty instrument, and wasn't build to have a great lifespan, so few of them lasted to this day. The concept and mechanism looks absolutely identical though.
Yup. My dad built several versions of a slide saxophone, one which was exactly like this, and another that had a piece of metal sliding over the hole instead.
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One of the "ancestors" of the Glissotar is the Hungarian tárogató, which is where the name comes from. You can read more about it here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/
@ColinDJPat You are absolutely right; indeed, several people from different parts of the world have already reached out to us, for whom this could be a solution, allowing them to play again. :)
Imádom! Jó lenne, ha nagyobb reklámot kapna itthon! Inkább erről néznék egy 1 órás műsort a magyar tv-ben, mintsem a sok politikai bullshit-ről. Gratulálok hozzá, egyet én is be akarok szerezni ebből a hangszerből! :D
...I sense John Coltrane's "sheets of sound" was an attempt to make his tenor and soprano saxophone release the sounds of this invention...wonderful...
Just adding for anyone else that is curious, the book is Musical Instrument Design, and yeah, he goes through a few ways to make them, including one like this, one with a bent strip of wood and some weatherstripping, and one with a steel tube and flexible magnetic tape. Definitely nice to see a fancy option though.
I love that the surge in microtonal music is forcing the creation of physical instruments that accommodate more varied playstyles and offer more freedom than traditional 12 tone based instruments
"so we can go in between the notes, like on a violin" classical violinists spending decades honing their technique to avoid going "in between" the notes:
Curious to see how a metal one would sound, maybe even glass? IDK, also why no markings for traditional notes (like a fretless bass with lines/markings)?
A *very* interesting instrument! If I'm honest I'm not personally in love the sound, I think it was both better and worse without the mouthpiece? I'd like to know if a double reed is possible.
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Holy crap, I played this thing! Did we play together at a free jazz thing in a Budapest run by two Germans? I play trumpet and you let me try this thing out
The slide saxophone was a thing that very much already existed. Like, this is a cool new design probably, but I think it's a little much to say it's a completely new and original idea that nobody's ever done before like it seems to be marketed as.
In one of our blog posts, we have gathered instruments similar to the Glissotar, which can be found here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/ We admire similar instruments and aim to highlight ideas like the Glissotar, both from the past and present.
I'd love to have a bit more specific information on the material of the 3D printed version other than "bio-composite material", because right now that just sounds like PLA, which most of the time is a less than ideal material for a woodwind instrument. Due to its high degradation risk from moisture, heat and UV-radiation, and its low density (and you want a relatively high density material for woodwinds for tonal clarity). Though there's variations of the common PLA type that are slightly better, would be great some assurance on that matter if this is the case given the price point.
Does the world really need this instrument? Yes Does the world really deserve this instrument? Absolutely not. This is a thing of innocence from a far gentler world than the one we live within.
Finally an instrument for the cantina musicians in Star Wars.
TIME TO JIZZ
And the simplicity of the design means every hipster on Earth is going to buy one and bother people at parties.
Yeah the knitted masks really were the icing on this goofy cake lmao
@@AyyyGabagoolslapping my knee while circle jerkin on my jazz vibes
@@AyyyGabagool Time to GLIZZ actually
Well done, you've built an analogue Otamatone.
now we have the Automatone :)
@@_Geist Finally... The Manualmatone
i use it as the ringtone on my obamaphone.
obamna foam
@@matturner6890I've got this feeling
So appealing
For us to get together and sing (sing!)
Squidward was truly ahead of his time. He was playing this kind of stuff on a run-of-the-mill, buttoned clarinet.
I would put a print of the holes on his clarinet on the mat 😂
Choosing Donna Lee to demo a "fretless" wind instrument is WILD
That’s so level 10 stuff right there
I wonder if it's an oblique shout out to jaco pastorius
@@YumaUesaka if it is, why not play the gliss at the end of the A section?
missed opportunity
Wait until you hear about the trombone
Good news for Free Jazz and Noise Afficiados
Unironically exactly correct
😅
I look forward to one thousand renditions of sucking air menacingly through glissotar at my local noise show.
can't wait for kenny g to pick one up
honestly really excited to hear how it's going to be used. microtonal free jazz going to be about twice as easy to make with this too
You have created the prefect instrument to talk back to my cats in the language they provided for us.
Okay this is cool. I will as a bard l conjure elemental cats with this.
Really cool that someone managed to come up with something genuinely new and novel, with specific features that other similar instruments lack. Whether or not this ends up taking off (I think the world has been hesitant to embrace new instruments for a reason), hats off to the inventors for the excellent work done here.
There are a _lot_ of new instruments made each year.
Do you....
Not use the internet?
It’s not new, this design is a century old.
@@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician oh well
@@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician it's not, the other ones had a completely different mechanism
@@chloejackson-reynolds444 absolutely not, the same exact mechanism was already invented in the 1920s
Babe wake up, new musical instrument just dropped!
this has the tone of a clarinet and a saxophone combined and im digging it
Clariphone... Saxonet?
Fretless clarinet, i swear a love limitless instruments
its conical bore, instead of cylindrical (the tube gets wider throughout it's entire length, instead staying the same width all the way until the bell, like a clarinet) making it more like a fretless (soprano) saxophone
@hetza7198 ^*I, not i ^*I, not a ^This instrument is definitely not limitless🤷♂️🤦♂️
Would you like to try again?
@@spanqueluv9er what the fuck?
This is very limited and something no one will ever need or wide use. Gimmick fad device.
I thought this is going to be some obscure meme video, but this is actually very cool! I'm happy that the creator is from my country as well! ❤️🇭🇺
yoo I came here with the same expectation
I too bear an "sz" in the old family name.
As expensive as the 3D printed versions of this instrument are… it should’ve been an obscure meme video
Foley artists everywhere...rejoice!
Rejoice!!! 🥂🎉🍻
Prices:
Glissotar - purple, amaranth wooden version - 3000 EUR (VAT incl.) + postal fee
Glissotar - purple, amaranth wooden version - 2400 EUR (VAT incl.) + postal fee (Leonardo Birthday Sale: until May 31)
Glissotar Jam - black, 3D-printed version - 1800 EUR (VAT incl.) + postal fee
honestly those aren't unreasonable prices for a brand new design
I’m just posting the data. No judgements!
it's cheaper than i thought lol.
I think the price is high, considering there is no keywork or special hole placement. We just need the Chinese to make some clones for a few hundred dollars.
@@PracticaProphetica 我正在做！
I'm surprised I have not seen more well-crafted novel instruments like this. It's beautiful
as goofy as this instrument is, I also just know that in like 10 years someone is going to be playing one of these and make the greatest music that I have ever heard
I think it’s pretty sleek honestly
@@parkerstroh6586 it can be both, and it is
How is it any goofier looking or sounding than every other oboe or clarinet that already exists….?
it’s gonna be jacob collier
@@kathrynelrod5570 yeahhh you're probably right.
This is like a violin mixed a saxophone!! Someone has to play Sax and Violins by Talking heads with this
wow wow wow, as I understand, this tape covers the strip-shaped air duct, and where it's pressed down, everything higher up on the air duct is closed. To press down like a string to make the wind system work, and what a sound, simple and ingenious
They use a magnet to make it snap
You can read more about the design here: glissonic.com/2024/04/25/part-1-something-completely-new-and-unusual-in-music/
This is extremely awesome. A new KIND of instrument, and not just some gimmick. Definitely gonna be keeping my ear out for this.
It’s not really, it’s just a slide saxophone, and the design for the 3D print was posted to thingiverse a decade ago.
The idea is cool, which is why it’s been around for a while; this iteration is just startup trash, sadly.
To play a fretless instrument is already a kind of crazy in my mind (I have played the clarinet in my teens, now I play the bass - with frets), but to imagine somebody waking up one morning and think, I wish I had a fretless woodwind instrument :D Congrats, this is true innovation, that actually looks something useful for the music scene.
Thank you! :)
What an incredible instrument
I hope to save enough to purchase one one day, I've been fascinated by your design now for over a year
so glad these made it to market, I can't wait to see them in action, in the hands of talented musicians
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This is the only instrument that can hypnotize ALL snakes.
This is genuinely fascinating, I was skeptical going into this but I really like it
I remember seeing this instrument in a 'weird instruments' video posted many years ago! This one definitely stood out to me. Very cool.
Congrats, Figrin D'an has recruited you as an honory member of the Modal Nodes!
And it can do the laser Pew Pews too!
A little pricey for my means, but golly you guys thank you SO MUCH for not obfuscating the mechanism!
I’ve got a cedar tube and some strip magnets, and I’m not above mutilating a clarinet for the mouthpiece. I’m gonna try and DIY up my own!
Let us know how it goes please 🙏🏻
Make me a bass one, pleeeeeeease!
I wonder what a more orchestral ensemble of these would sound like!
About the same as one composed of sax players.
Sax players don't get to join the orchestra.
Neither do piranha plants from yoshi's island (that's what it sounds like)
@@NuncNuncNuncNuncyes they do. There's quite a lot of classical music written for sax, as well as orchestra with sax. There's even quartets with a sax
Though almost all written before the mid twentieth century..
I saw this in a award event for best new instruments. Looks awesome!
Probably it was the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in 2022! :) Here you can read about it more: glissonic.com/2024/05/10/part-2-what-has-happened-so-far-with-the-glissotar/
Me playing alto sax samples with my keyboard’s ribbon controller:
the only thing this needs to sell me is to compare it against a clarinet on Rhapsody in Blue
The gliss!
That's what I was thinking!
I’ll be honest, haven’t played an instrument since piano back in middle school ~25 years ago but this is genuinely innovative enough to make me want to practice it
I feel like I've been waiting all my life for the acoustic otamatone.
i'm pretty sure they made this back in the 20's. cool that they are bringing it back.
Over the past 120 years, several attempts have been made to create sliding saxophones. You’re probably thinking of the King C Saxoprano. In this blog post, we showcase instruments similar to the Glissotar, including the King C Saxoprano: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/
You need to give one to every living member of the AACM... Would love to see what Anthony Braxton or Roscoe Mitchell would do with this
Only a few of us know that abbreviation - Ali Akbar College of Music in Fairfax, CA... But I totally agree.
@@thesoundsmith Association for the Advancement of Creative Music, from Chicago
Yes!
Babe wake up! A new instrument just dropped.
I’d LOVE to get one if it was less expensive. 1900 USD for a 3D printed one is kind of insane
I can't afford it, but it's a very normal price for people who have to make a living selling very small batches. Same everywhere, for example recumbent bikes.
How many hours do you think you'd have to spend to make your own though...
@@chickenbobby666I'm in the process of creating a similar instrument (with a double reed rather than a sax mouthpiece). I'm making it out of wood, and I'm about 15 hours into it. (10 hours of modeling, 2 hours of material recovery, 3 hours of turning). And I'm almost done. If we consider the French hourly minimum wage (lowest legal salary), that’s €140. The materials didn't cost me anything but if I had to buy them it would cost me around a hundred euros at most. Considering that I have 10 hours of work left (in reality much less), it would cost a total of €390. We put in the margin, and that’s €500, then taxes (20% in France): €600. There is no industrial process, it is wood, made by hand. I imagine they use very different techniques but $1900 is just excessive. (and @Johnanderson9337 I could share the digital model if you want. (when it's finished))
If you don't mind plastic, there will eventually be designs on Thingiverse, and by eventually I mean there's been a prototype design posted for nearly a decade.
@@chickenbobby666considering you can hit print, then come back 12 hours later to get a finished part, not long at all. the printer is the one taking the time burden
i want to hear this in an orchestra, very interesting!
Absolutely love the idea of this. Hope this goes beautifully well. And also,
I WAS HERE🔥
this instrument makes the beginning to "rhapsody in blue" look easy
Like the woodwind response to the trombone. Kinda love it. Wish I had the embouchure for reeds :/ always been a brass guy.
Hadn't thought of that - bravo!
Wow an actual good new instrument! Kind of similar to a fretless neck, so cool!
I uh.... am i alone in being confused about this being a high quality shitpost or a silly yet good and sincere idea?
I thought it was an April Fools video. If the Royal Philharmonic orchestra start using these, then I'll take the instrument seriously.
I'm amazed none of the low notes cause a gap to form at one of the higher notes. Impressive! In my non-electronic music life, I'm the maker of Boyd Reeds, which are actually polyester double reeds, for Scottish smallpipes, and border pipes, chanters, and drones, which are a couple different groups of bagpipes. I've worked with various instrument makers, and personal clients often with historical instruments needing working double reeds, not sensitive to moisture, or lack thereof. I'd love to play around with this. back in the earlier 2000's I built my own simple pocket sax.
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@@glissonic6830 Thank you, so much! 👍
This is absolutely phenomenal!
I'm sorry but didn't this already existed? The King company used to make it in the early 20's in Cleveland, it was called a slide saxophone I think. Dr. Cohen owns one in his saxophone collection: ruclips.net/video/p-b6I1ihh2s/видео.html minute 7.19
Yep! The comments on it were, that it was more a novelty instrument, and wasn't build to have a great lifespan, so few of them lasted to this day.
The concept and mechanism looks absolutely identical though.
Looks like it to me.
My exact thought too.
Yup. My dad built several versions of a slide saxophone, one which was exactly like this, and another that had a piece of metal sliding over the hole instead.
YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT
Sounds really good! 😎👍
This this is absolutly amazing i need one!
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i can only read this as Glizzotar, which changes the meaning and intent of it immensely.
One of the "ancestors" of the Glissotar is the Hungarian tárogató, which is where the name comes from. You can read more about it here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/
Centuries from now in some galactic dive....
AMAZING!
This would be a more accessible woodwind instrument for people who maybe don't have great finger control but still have gross motor skills
If it wasn’t 1800 euro for the 3D print.
Luckily, this has existed for a while; there’s a free design on thingiverse for it that’s over a decade old.
@ColinDJPat You are absolutely right; indeed, several people from different parts of the world have already reached out to us, for whom this could be a solution, allowing them to play again. :)
What is the song/performance at 0:41? I love that groove and the masks!
Imádom! Jó lenne, ha nagyobb reklámot kapna itthon! Inkább erről néznék egy 1 órás műsort a magyar tv-ben, mintsem a sok politikai bullshit-ről. Gratulálok hozzá, egyet én is be akarok szerezni ebből a hangszerből! :D
Köszönjük szépen! Igyekszünk itthon és nemzetközileg is minél több helyen megjelenni!
Waiting for the baritone sax version
...I sense John Coltrane's "sheets of sound" was an attempt to make his tenor and soprano saxophone release the sounds of this invention...wonderful...
Nehlybel is DANCING IN HIS GRAVE 😩😩😤😤😤 nice. Thanks for sharing. Amazing ingenuity.
I saw a diagram of this in a Bart Hopkins book almost 30 years ago. This is clearly better/best quality. Love it!!!
Just adding for anyone else that is curious, the book is Musical Instrument Design, and yeah, he goes through a few ways to make them, including one like this, one with a bent strip of wood and some weatherstripping, and one with a steel tube and flexible magnetic tape. Definitely nice to see a fancy option though.
I saw this one on Benn Jordan’s channel! I like it a lot 😊
Wow I need you guys to come on my show and tell me about this. Very cool.
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Wake up babe new instrument dropped
I love that the surge in microtonal music is forcing the creation of physical instruments that accommodate more varied playstyles and offer more freedom than traditional 12 tone based instruments
Hey buddy...a scale with 100 tones is great. A scale with 12 tones is better.
Putting a clickable linkto the product in the description would help you a lot.
Wow, it sounds nice, fireless sax.
new instrument just dropped
Make a double reed one for oboists! Id love to toy around with it
I believe "-tar" comes from Tárogató, a Hungarian woodwind instrument which has the same shape. The guy featured in the video is also Hungarian.
Yes, you are right, we wrote about this here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/
"so we can go in between the notes, like on a violin"
classical violinists spending decades honing their technique to avoid going "in between" the notes:
this thing sounds wicked! I really dig it, such a fun concept.
help i love this so much
Now THIS, is innovation!
I bought my kid an Otamatone for Christmas and this is like the professional grown up version of it.
Curious to see how a metal one would sound, maybe even glass? IDK, also why no markings for traditional notes (like a fretless bass with lines/markings)?
A *very* interesting instrument! If I'm honest I'm not personally in love the sound, I think it was both better and worse without the mouthpiece? I'd like to know if a double reed is possible.
this is seriously awesome. i’m so so into this. i’m gonna be playing one of these someday. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Wow i would love to try this! Love the concept
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Squidward that was amazing! You managed to play only all of the wrong notes!
It's like an acoustic Otamatone. I think I love it.
The noise is incredible
Holy crap, I played this thing! Did we play together at a free jazz thing in a Budapest run by two Germans? I play trumpet and you let me try this thing out
It sounds incredible! But the intro had me cringe at first. The instrument still seems to need more fine tuning before I’d consider such a device
Honestly exciting stuff here!
A fretless wind instrument is such a clever idea
The slide saxophone was a thing that very much already existed. Like, this is a cool new design probably, but I think it's a little much to say it's a completely new and original idea that nobody's ever done before like it seems to be marketed as.
ruclips.net/video/p-b6I1ihh2s/видео.html
In one of our blog posts, we have gathered instruments similar to the Glissotar, which can be found here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/
We admire similar instruments and aim to highlight ideas like the Glissotar, both from the past and present.
Yup, this looks interesting, I want one 😂
I clicked on this fully expecting it to be parody. I was not expecting this to be a real instrument that exists. I kinda wanna play it now...
"Introducing the Gli-"
*Stanky Luigi's Mansion jazz starts playing
I'd like to hear his whole version of Round Midnight, it sounded great around 2:00.
Gonna do a trio for Pedal Steel, Theremin and Glissotar. Infini-tet
looks and sounds amazing though perhaps its just me, all of the price options are quite restrictive
Jazz is being changed forever oh my god
I can make AMAZING fart noises with this
I'd love to have a bit more specific information on the material of the 3D printed version other than "bio-composite material", because right now that just sounds like PLA, which most of the time is a less than ideal material for a woodwind instrument. Due to its high degradation risk from moisture, heat and UV-radiation, and its low density (and you want a relatively high density material for woodwinds for tonal clarity).
Though there's variations of the common PLA type that are slightly better, would be great some assurance on that matter if this is the case given the price point.
Trombonist / EWI fans rejoice! So eager to see this. Will it distribute in China?
I’m curious if there could be a double-reed version of this
Does the world really need this instrument? Yes
Does the world really deserve this instrument? Absolutely not. This is a thing of innocence from a far gentler world than the one we live within.
Really cool idea
Would love to see a version of this without a reed but instead a blowing edge akin to a flute.
thought it was going to be a glizzy meme but this is also nice
I'm ashamed of how surprised I am with how good it sounds.
Absolutely brilliant idea! 👍
Thank you!