@@NicolasBras ⚠ God has said in the Quran: 🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 ) 🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 ) 🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 ) 🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 ) 🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 ) ⚠ Quran
oh yes a lot more coming, that's my biggest source of inspiration, and I'll be able to start featurings with traditional buiders, can't wait to show you that!
Since you have three strings in your design, you could make use of that with some music theory and the harmonic overtone series. Tuning the strings to A, C# and E you could get an A major scale, but with all those sweet added extensions and non-diatonic notes that the overtone series give you. Or perhaps C, E and F# would be cool too. I get that tuning all the strings to the same note is the best thing for your music, since it's very melodic (which I love by the way!), but it would be cool to see this instrument used in a more modal ambient context too!
Holy shit. Some one actually renovate our traditional instrument, with respect! Now why I haven't seen this kind of innovation in our country itself is just beyond me.
@@NicolasBras As a guitar player I spotted why the pickup didnt sound that great - it should have been at the other end - up by the tin can. We have a similar technique on guitar - a harmonic is touched with one finger and the string is picked with another on the same hand - the pickup is on the side of the plucking finger, not the harmonic finger
Nicolas, you are a massive inspiration to me as a soon to be new instrument inventor. The ease at which you create new instruments truly amazes me. The infinite possibilities of ways to change a sound are just so much fun
Nice! I do recommend going to Vietnam. It's a fantastic country to travel in. There's lots of excellent musicians there, also lots of less excellent ones, but the two times I went to concerts where they used traditional instruments was awesome. As a guitar builder who's been months in Vietnam this video was exactly what I needed. I recommend going through some of the local guitar shops, I found a great acoustic guitar made in HCMC that's better than any mass produced ones I've ever tried. Only issue was cheap frets, but after refretting it's great. This video got you a new subscriber.
Nicolas, I want you to know that I think what you're doing is really cool! I support you on patreon, simply because I truly wish you to continue creating these obscure diy instruments and showing everyone else how to do the same. Properly cool stuff
I wonder, does the string on the dan bau really need to be so high in the air at the resonator end? I've thought of building one using a section of pvc pipe, sliced lengthwise to form an arch topped sound box and using a pvc pipe cap for the resonator. Stil have to work out the material for the vertical shaft.@@NicolasBras
Don‘t stop exploring. If a travel to vietnam is needed for that, I support it. Cool idea to have one end of the string be bendable for microtonalities👍 with an calabash instead of the cans I guess the distortion would be softer, as in the brasilian berimbau, and you gain a third articulation (the calabash opening). Nicolas, you need more arms, like an octopus, to play even more articulations 😂. Amazed, every time I return! A master of resonances!
Your videos always make me so happy! I showed some friends how to make PVC whistles recently, and since then my DIY instrument collection has slowly been growing. Now it seems I need to get some guitar parts and follow in your footsteps once again :)
Thanks to the algorhythm gods and Nicolas for sending this my way. Great sound! I had the good fortune to travel in Viet Nam about 25 years ago. I encountered a blind busker on a street in Ho Chi Minh City. He had a funky dan bau, with a tin can resonator and a cheap pickup powered by a motorcycle battery into a tiny amplifier of maybe 2 watts. He sang a traditional song while playing. It was so like a Mississippi blues song the hair stood up on my neck. Bottleneck Mekong delta blues!
Thank you for highlighting and enjoying my native country's One and only , most unique instrument, and my favorite instrument ! and your pronunciation of Việt Nam and Đàn Bầu is perfect !
Tu m'as hook avec cet instrument... Whaa le son de ouf quand tu claques la disto, et comment tu le fais crier ! ça me donne trop envie de build un truc du genre, merci beaucoup pour l'inspiration ! keep it up !
j'aimerai que tu amméliore ton accent anglais, la french touch est toujours audible. en tout cas tes vidés sont toujours au top, continue comme ça bonhomme !
Have you heard of the undertone series(as opposed to the overtone series)? It's a really underrated concept, and I feel like it is underutilized in the world of acoustic instruments
The undertone series is theoretical and doesn’t exist in nature like the overtone series does. That’s why it’s not utilized because it literally can’t be
Hit a tuning fork and put it against a piece of paper. If you do it right, the tuning fork will hit the paper every xth vibration making a tone lower than the fundamental
Не знаю английский язык, но понял, что речь идëт о музыкальном инструменте, родом из Вьетнама.. этого достаточно - остальное я просто слушал.. короче, я в восторге! 👏🤓
You are an absolute inspiration! I first saw the dan bau at a performance of 'water puppetry' in Hanoi. I LOVE what you've done with it!. Rocks with the distortion!! I think this is your best build yet!
Wow ! You are Some kind of genius!! Love what you are doing. The fact that you make such a cool,expressive instrument out of stuff laying around your house is mind-melting. Do you have any recordings of yourself playing these fantastic instruments? Love to hear that. Meanwhile, please never stop letting your imagination run wild ! And thank you for having the vision to create like you do- it's a truly wonderful thing.
I'm glad you are branching out to Vietnamese instruments! You can also just use a marker on the string for the harmonics. Also: use 3 strings tuned a fifth apart from each other (G-D-A), and you can play a diatonic scale on the harmonics.
Good to see you back! Sounds awesome. Another traditional instrument from the same region (thailand/laos) which i think would be cool to see is a khaen, fitting with the pvc instruments.
Great video Nicolas. You were really jamming there at the end. I loved it man. Anybody ever told you that you have a very unique but satisfying personality? Can't wait to see more videos of yours.
I've recently begun my own sound therapy practice. I've been looking through monochord instruments and found the Dan Bau. That lead me to your video. This "sound" has some incredible potential in the healing arts! Thank you for this. Amazing!
They use to roll out the big Tv and make us watch stuff like this in school t spark creativity. I hope some teacher somewhere does the same for their students.
Very cool. Stringed instruments with Note benders are so much fun. Thank you for all these videos. You showed me you can make amazing instruments from junk essentially. Without spending a fortune, having to go to great lengths to make a “professional” looking instrument or make every little thing 100% perfect. It inspired me to finally actually attempt to build a bass. I lost my job/workshop unfortunately, so it’s at a stand still currently but I made a mini fretless bass. Needs a little tweaking on intonation and string spacing. Some Routing and electronics. Then some sort of finish to go on the whole thing. I surprised myself with the results. I couldn’t believe I made something that actually felt good to play and sounded quite good. Hope I can get my own workshop again soon so I can finish and build more. Keep being awesome!
I love your video so much, very fascinating how you expand the octaves-if you can try experimenting with chords, that will be great as well :DD ! I'm Vietnamese myself, and it is indeed the chief use of artificial harmonics and the whammy-bar-ish rod that made me picked up this instrument :,3 As an instrument that borders the realms of traditional and modern instruments, it produces some cool effects and suitable for various old and new music genres :D A long way coming from its original background as an instrument for Northern Vietnamese minstrelsy (hat xam) and Central Vietnamese poetry recitation (ngam tho Hue)
I saw one of these being played at a street festival in Hanoi last year, and I've been wondering what it was ever since. In the hands of an experience player it sounded kind of like a pedal steel. Such a beautiful and unique instrument, and a awesome video!
Wow! The amount of talent both building and playing the instrument 👏👏👏 Also have you considered somehow adding frets to it? Or using the metal thing they use on resonator guitar to change the pitch
Thanks to YOU! You’re a huge inspiration in the quest of empowering musicians! Have watched all of your videos and built many instruments inspired by your designs! I just released a free looping software for jamming that I worked on for many years, would be an honour if you checked it out on my channel!
Je suis toujours aussi impressionné par la qualité du rendu musical par rapport à la "simplicité " de la mise en oeuvre d'une part et par l'apparente (?) Facilité de prise en main de l'instrument. Cette vidéo est vraiment très coool. Merci
I first came across a dan bau performance a few years ago and it took a bit of a double-take before I realised what it was doing. This looks like a great adaption of the concept :)
Dam... How?! It was so good already!!! ...and your video had such huge upgrade?! Amazing to see other parts of your process!!! What a beauty!!! And of course! Amazing Art... thank you so much, such an inspiration!!!!
Ahahahahahah!!!! That's what hapens when you express before the end of the video.... This music... ohhhhhh... speachless it's so goood!... You.... Ummm!
of the 972 instruments you've built, this is one of the 11 coolest-sounding ones!
than, it's in my top 34 too!
Which is the top one???😊
@@MatteoBosi76 Your mom in bed
@@NicolasBras ⚠ God has said in the Quran:
🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 )
🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 )
🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 )
🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 )
🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 )
⚠ Quran
@@NicolasBras please make video about it
That's so awesome. Hope you make even more traditional instruments from other cultures in the future.
oh yes a lot more coming, that's my biggest source of inspiration, and I'll be able to start featurings with traditional buiders, can't wait to show you that!
Something from the same region I reckon might work is a khaen
I would love if you made a valiha 😉@@NicolasBras such an interesting instrument!
Since you have three strings in your design, you could make use of that with some music theory and the harmonic overtone series.
Tuning the strings to A, C# and E you could get an A major scale, but with all those sweet added extensions and non-diatonic notes that the overtone series give you.
Or perhaps C, E and F# would be cool too. I get that tuning all the strings to the same note is the best thing for your music, since it's very melodic (which I love by the way!), but it would be cool to see this instrument used in a more modal ambient context too!
This is a traditional musical instrument of Vietnam, my homeland. Thank you for your interest in it
I hereby publicly nominate
Nicholas Bras for a Nobel Prize.
Not sure which category, because this achievement fits several.
Holy shit. Some one actually renovate our traditional instrument, with respect! Now why I haven't seen this kind of innovation in our country itself is just beyond me.
I was flipping out when the distortion came in at the ending song. Well done. It is obvious the maddening fun you were having.
I love the new instrument, but just need to say how awesome that tin-can air bongo is amazing. Such a clear tone from it.
Love this thing too, really useful in studio!
@@NicolasBras As a guitar player I spotted why the pickup didnt sound that great - it should have been at the other end - up by the tin can.
We have a similar technique on guitar - a harmonic is touched with one finger and the string is picked with another on the same hand - the pickup is on the side of the plucking finger, not the harmonic finger
Another sublime build, with such wonderfully expressive sounds. Overtones. Not just for air any more!
thanks a lot!
that distortion is something else, sounds awesome!
Really cool instrument! The electric version sounds like doing dive bombs with a floyd rose bridge on a guitar! Which seems pretty logical!
Right? Of course I had to rip off Hendrix for this solo
Guitar but it's all pinch harmonics
The song at the end is quite impressive. Great distortion.
human proof that we can make this world a better place
5:45 damn, this could be intro for a western movie. This instrument sounds so unique...love it :)
Nicolas, you are a massive inspiration to me as a soon to be new instrument inventor. The ease at which you create new instruments truly amazes me. The infinite possibilities of ways to change a sound are just so much fun
The microtones are amazing on that thing!
Nice! I do recommend going to Vietnam. It's a fantastic country to travel in. There's lots of excellent musicians there, also lots of less excellent ones, but the two times I went to concerts where they used traditional instruments was awesome. As a guitar builder who's been months in Vietnam this video was exactly what I needed. I recommend going through some of the local guitar shops, I found a great acoustic guitar made in HCMC that's better than any mass produced ones I've ever tried. Only issue was cheap frets, but after refretting it's great. This video got you a new subscriber.
Ever since I was a little kid, I loved making my own instruments DIY.
So I love your content, it feeds my inner child with joy, and inspiration 🎶🌎☮❤
Nicolas, I want you to know that I think what you're doing is really cool! I support you on patreon, simply because I truly wish you to continue creating these obscure diy instruments and showing everyone else how to do the same.
Properly cool stuff
thanks a lot for your support, it means a lot! For sure I'll continue, I got more ideas than ever
I think this is the best instrument you have made so far! Love it, thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks, more dan baus are coming, I really enjoy playing this!
I wonder, does the string on the dan bau really need to be so high in the air at the resonator end? I've thought of building one using a section of pvc pipe, sliced lengthwise to form an arch topped sound box and using a pvc pipe cap for the resonator. Stil have to work out the material for the vertical shaft.@@NicolasBras
Glad to see a new instrument build! Thank you.
Don‘t stop exploring. If a travel to vietnam is needed for that, I support it. Cool idea to have one end of the string be bendable for microtonalities👍 with an calabash instead of the cans I guess the distortion would be softer, as in the brasilian berimbau, and you gain a third articulation (the calabash opening). Nicolas, you need more arms, like an octopus, to play even more articulations 😂. Amazed, every time I return! A master of resonances!
Thanks a lot! I open a shoe box with your collaboration, when it's full I go to Vietnam!
Your videos always make me so happy! I showed some friends how to make PVC whistles recently, and since then my DIY instrument collection has slowly been growing. Now it seems I need to get some guitar parts and follow in your footsteps once again :)
Don't know how I missed this! Well done, sounds great!
I just fell in love. There should be a Decent Sampler for this beauty!
I'll make a really cool virtual instrument for my soundpaint.com instrument series, at the end of my explorations!
That's fantastic! Keep up the great work, highly inspiring and intriguing!
That See you soon, Bye after a few minutes had me. Well played!
sorry!
1:04 literally just you showing us how to play it sounded extremely cool
Thanks to the algorhythm gods and Nicolas for sending this my way. Great sound!
I had the good fortune to travel in Viet Nam about 25 years ago. I encountered a blind busker on a street in Ho Chi Minh City. He had a funky dan bau, with a tin can resonator and a cheap pickup powered by a motorcycle battery into a tiny amplifier of maybe 2 watts. He sang a traditional song while playing. It was so like a Mississippi blues song the hair stood up on my neck. Bottleneck Mekong delta blues!
Subscribed to your site Nicolas. Cheers!
Thank you for highlighting and enjoying my native country's One and only , most unique instrument, and my favorite instrument ! and your pronunciation of Việt Nam and Đàn Bầu is perfect !
Tu m'as hook avec cet instrument... Whaa le son de ouf quand tu claques la disto, et comment tu le fais crier !
ça me donne trop envie de build un truc du genre, merci beaucoup pour l'inspiration !
keep it up !
j'aimerai que tu amméliore ton accent anglais, la french touch est toujours audible.
en tout cas tes vidés sont toujours au top, continue comme ça bonhomme !
When the bassline kicks in! Super cool idea!
thanks !
Have you heard of the undertone series(as opposed to the overtone series)?
It's a really underrated concept, and I feel like it is underutilized in the world of acoustic instruments
Never tried to exploit it, but that could be interesting!
The undertone series is theoretical and doesn’t exist in nature like the overtone series does. That’s why it’s not utilized because it literally can’t be
Hit a tuning fork and put it against a piece of paper. If you do it right, the tuning fork will hit the paper every xth vibration making a tone lower than the fundamental
Не знаю английский язык, но понял, что речь идëт о музыкальном инструменте, родом из Вьетнама.. этого достаточно - остальное я просто слушал.. короче, я в восторге! 👏🤓
Love that !!
Great bit of music at the end too 😊
You are an absolute inspiration! I first saw the dan bau at a performance of 'water puppetry' in Hanoi. I LOVE what you've done with it!. Rocks with the distortion!! I think this is your best build yet!
Yay a new video! 🎉 I am very hapy to see a new instrument!
Wow ! You are Some kind of genius!! Love what you are doing. The fact that you make such a cool,expressive instrument out of stuff laying around your house is mind-melting. Do you have any recordings of yourself playing these fantastic instruments? Love to hear that. Meanwhile, please never stop letting your imagination run wild ! And thank you for having the vision to create like you do- it's a truly wonderful thing.
I'm glad you are branching out to Vietnamese instruments! You can also just use a marker on the string for the harmonics. Also: use 3 strings tuned a fifth apart from each other (G-D-A), and you can play a diatonic scale on the harmonics.
Good to see you back! Sounds awesome. Another traditional instrument from the same region (thailand/laos) which i think would be cool to see is a khaen, fitting with the pvc instruments.
I love the distorted dan bau.
It’s so cool.
You are super inspiring 😊 I love the sound of that dan bau.
Thanks!
that was fun... I was playing harmonica along with you. ;)
absolutely killed it on this one
Outstanding! Please make this a series!
This was transcendental
I'm always making things like lap guitars and cigar box guitars and now I have to try and make one of these... Very COOL...
My mind has been blown. Not only did I learn about a cool Vietnamese instrument, but also, this build and music is awesome!
I've been meaning to build an electric Dan Bau,- now I'm inspired!!!!
For my 2 cents- best of many cool things you've created. THANKS for sharing it here!
thanks!
This first video I've seen of yours earned you a subscription!
welcome!
I was just looking at your channel hoping I didnt miss a new video. Glad to see you back!
I'm back for real!
Nicolas is waaay undersubscribed. Absolutely love this channel
i love how he makes all the background music
I think it's one of my favorite video of the Chanel !!! You really got me on the trip to Vietnam!!!
Great to see you back here!
back for good!
@@NicolasBras excellent!
The instrument is very cool and sounds great, but to me the best part is how you put all the sounds together to make a song - love it!
Brilliant, as always. Thanks Nic, I really enjoyed this one.
Everytime you post a new vid, it always makes my day! That one was really nice, especially with the distortion~
thanks a lot!
Hello! I love your creativity, and I’m happy to see you back on RUclips!
That sounds really different and cool. I thought this video was going to be about the spike traps until I saw that humbucker.
Great video Nicolas. You were really jamming there at the end. I loved it man. Anybody ever told you that you have a very unique but satisfying personality? Can't wait to see more videos of yours.
That's a crazy sounding instrument you've made. I can't say I've heard anything else like it
Amazing and inspiring! I'm sure that you could have a lot of fun with a bow on this instrument.
I've recently begun my own sound therapy practice. I've been looking through monochord instruments and found the Dan Bau. That lead me to your video. This "sound" has some incredible potential in the healing arts! Thank you for this. Amazing!
They use to roll out the big Tv and make us watch stuff like this in school t spark creativity.
I hope some teacher somewhere does the same for their students.
Longue vie, M. Bras! Le génie mérite tout le temps que la nature peut lui garantir.
Very cool. Stringed instruments with Note benders are so much fun.
Thank you for all these videos. You showed me you can make amazing instruments from junk essentially. Without spending a fortune, having to go to great lengths to make a “professional” looking instrument or make every little thing 100% perfect. It inspired me to finally actually attempt to build a bass. I lost my job/workshop unfortunately, so it’s at a stand still currently but I made a mini fretless bass. Needs a little tweaking on intonation and string spacing. Some Routing and electronics. Then some sort of finish to go on the whole thing. I surprised myself with the results. I couldn’t believe I made something that actually felt good to play and sounded quite good. Hope I can get my own workshop again soon so I can finish and build more.
Keep being awesome!
thanks, have some fun buildings!
I love your video so much, very fascinating how you expand the octaves-if you can try experimenting with chords, that will be great as well :DD ! I'm Vietnamese myself, and it is indeed the chief use of artificial harmonics and the whammy-bar-ish rod that made me picked up this instrument :,3 As an instrument that borders the realms of traditional and modern instruments, it produces some cool effects and suitable for various old and new music genres :D A long way coming from its original background as an instrument for Northern Vietnamese minstrelsy (hat xam) and Central Vietnamese poetry recitation (ngam tho Hue)
Thanks! this is my first exploration of this lovely instrument, more prototypes in my head!
Delighted to see a new video!
I love watching you make instruments
Damn, that was awesome! I've always loved the dan bau. It always sounded like the hot, humid vietnamese midday was melting the musical notes! 😂
That groove was mesmerizing!
Im glad I made it to the epic jam at the end!!!
SPECTACULAR!!!!!!! NICOLAS, YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!!!!!!!
My bro, you're the real avant garde.
Thanks! You are such a joyful bad ass
thanks a lot!
I saw one of these being played at a street festival in Hanoi last year, and I've been wondering what it was ever since. In the hands of an experience player it sounded kind of like a pedal steel. Such a beautiful and unique instrument, and a awesome video!
That jam at the end is sick
Oh, man! That's pretty dang awesome. It's music!
SOUNDS & FEELS GREAT!
Wow! The amount of talent both building and playing the instrument 👏👏👏
Also have you considered somehow adding frets to it? Or using the metal thing they use on resonator guitar to change the pitch
You can use a slide(the metal thing you are talking about )on almost all string instruments
It's got do much of a steel guiter vibe that I can almost see the tumbleweed and hear the jangle of spurs😄
Great stuff👍
man i hope your channel goes through the roof! very inspiring
This is def one of my favorites! So cool sounding.
Best end of video song yet!
Thanks!
Thanks to YOU! You’re a huge inspiration in the quest of empowering musicians! Have watched all of your videos and built many instruments inspired by your designs! I just released a free looping software for jamming that I worked on for many years, would be an honour if you checked it out on my channel!
Je suis toujours aussi impressionné par la qualité du rendu musical par rapport à la "simplicité " de la mise en oeuvre d'une part et par l'apparente (?) Facilité de prise en main de l'instrument.
Cette vidéo est vraiment très coool. Merci
Glorious.
As ever a true master can craft their own tools.
Your instruments are so cool! I love it. So bizarre and inventively creative. I like.
Punaise j'avais plus de notif de ta chaine depuis longtemps, ça fait plaisir de te revoir et entendre !
oui, de retour, beaucoup de chouettes projets pour cette annee
Wow! Absolutely superb. I would love to hear more of this composition, what a beautiful sound.
This is an incredible instrument. Looking forward to building mine.
Danke!
How very interesting. A great winter project ahead. Thank you.
The is your best video yet, can see and hear you enjoyed making it.
ahhh ça me procure toujours autant de plaisir de voir ton travail ! :)
Extremely great. Now I want one.
I first came across a dan bau performance a few years ago and it took a bit of a double-take before I realised what it was doing. This looks like a great adaption of the concept :)
Love it. Sounds awesome with the distortion. 🤩👍
Dam... How?! It was so good already!!! ...and your video had such huge upgrade?! Amazing to see other parts of your process!!! What a beauty!!! And of course! Amazing Art... thank you so much, such an inspiration!!!!
Ahahahahahah!!!! That's what hapens when you express before the end of the video.... This music... ohhhhhh... speachless it's so goood!... You.... Ummm!