Unusual Instruments Thread

This thread is for musical instruments ranging from the mindblowingly insane to the endearingly shit and everything inbetween - if it makes cool sounds, post it here.

Gonna start with this. Thing is nuts

The Waterphone:

Those are awesome. Pure sci-fi horror soundtrack vibes

  On 11/25/2014 at 10:08 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

The Waterphone:

 

Dug around for high quality samples and the best i could find were two 30 second "demo" samples to a sample pack that doesn't exist anymore

http://www.waterphone.com/samples.php

  On 11/25/2014 at 10:18 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 11/25/2014 at 10:08 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

The Waterphone:

 

Dug around for high quality samples and the best i could find were two 30 second "demo" samples to a sample pack that doesn't exist anymore

http://www.waterphone.com/samples.php

 

Does this sample pack not exist? Takes me to a pay via Paypal page, $15

http://www.operator-music.com/tools-for-music-making/unchartedwaters/

Aeolian Harp:

Glass Armonica invented by Benjamin Franklin

love this thread. lots to sample :)

Huge fan of the Cuica

Haven't checked them all out, but Baauer has sampled a lot of odd instruments and made them available. Nearly 1Gb of samples.

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/baauer-searching-for-sound-samples/

Download link at the bottom of the page.

Kool, but there are few stuff..

the ondes martenot.

not that weird, but kind of cool cos it was like a synthesizer from the 1920's

The Daxophone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb23PNogJ0M

these are so awesome

I love the original Hang Drum's

I first heard one being busked with in Amsterdam and homed in on the wonderful tones coming from it.

Pity they only sell to hippies

  On 12/7/2014 at 12:05 PM, TechDiff said:

The Daxophone

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb23PNogJ0M

I need this in my life. Going to try to make one of my own, if it turns out alright I will post the results!

These wooden synths are pretty awesome too

http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/

i really want to see the twin shred on this

info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stalacpipe_Organ

Awesome thread!

That is way cool, especially considering how old it is. It beats out the autoharp by about 850 years.

i'm just going to put this here http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/these-20-unorthodox-instruments-are-making-the-music-of-the-future

The Holophonor

  On 1/19/2015 at 1:35 PM, IrisAndTheLens said:

i'm just going to put this here http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/these-20-unorthodox-instruments-are-making-the-music-of-the-future

Some good stuff there. Really like these

^ very interesting

http://player.vimeo.com/video/111958754

^ want

On a robot tip:

The GePS really remind me of Imogen Heap's MiMum gloves.

My favourite though had to be the NOMIS, perhaps in large part due to the visual elements.

I'm sure you could make something similar to the ndial if you put you mind to it.

This dude creates his own instruments and makes music with them:

Here's his bandcamp:

http://anarchestra.bandcamp.com/album/batur