Unusual Instruments Thread

Awesome instruments in that vid, and all very musical.

Kempelin Machine - a mechanical voice synthesizer from 1791.

This guy built a reproduction:

More representative but less funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRVqrfY3tQ

Not actually that unusual.

Aulochrome

  On 10/18/2015 at 12:08 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

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

 

 

Here's his bandcamp:

 

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

thanks to share that one! love the philosophy behind it

Never heard of the before. The other 303:

Inspired by this (posted in afx soundcloud thread):

I thought it would be cool to have a thread about weird, old or just unusual instruments; I imagine everybody here is into that ^^

So, here are some links, feel free to post away!

Absolute reference here: http://www.mim.be/en

Maybe we could pin it if watmm deems it worthy?

Obviously there's Victor Gama

i think there's already a thread

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/85832-unusual-instruments-thread/

  On 12/6/2015 at 3:27 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/85832-unusual-instruments-thread/

Cheers, merged threads now!

try n avoid "celtic" labels but Breton pipes avec galettes? ooh la la

There is a facebook page for this, tons and tons of stuff if anyone is interested.. 

https://www.facebook.com/RareAndStrangeInstruments/ 

+1 for the sound from hang drums. Can get a similar sound from tank drums:

This is also cool:

What no mention of the samchillian (tip tip tip cheeepeeeee)?
Invented by Leon Gruenbaum who one of his bandmates describes as "Joe Zawinul on speed", it's a wacky instrument/MIDI controller that's all based on changing pitches relative to one another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samchillian
https://www.leongruenbaum.com/samchilliankidchillian

can any of this "unusual" instruments enter mainstream? or are they immanently too abstract for it?