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cuncuna 
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¿Used for what purpose?. I guess I could use an Oboe or a Harp to feed my cat. That would be unusual. I think those Guitar synthesizers are very weird, but somehow I like them.
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: January 03 2007 at 07:27 |
 Terra Australis wrote:
N Ellingworth wrote:
The theremin is wonderfully weird particularly when used with effects.
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It sounds great, especially in those 50s B grade Science Fiction movies.And of course Led Zeppelin. |
And sounded great with Spirit, whose guitarist Randy California taught Page how to use a theremin.
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Terra Australis
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Posted: January 03 2007 at 05:49 |
N Ellingworth wrote:
The theremin is wonderfully weird particularly when used with effects.
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It sounds great, especially in those 50s B grade Science Fiction movies. And of course Led Zeppelin.
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Terra Australis
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Posted: January 03 2007 at 05:44 |
Majestic_Mayhem wrote:
This guy, called Artis the Spoonman,a street performer from Santa Cruz California and later in Seattle, played music with a set of spoons. He was recruited by Soungarden and was featured in a song entitled Spoonman.The final version of the song featured him playing his spoons as part of the song's instrumental. |
Good get MM! New Zealand Act 'Split Enz' where intitially very progressive and weird in the 70s. They had a permanent member of the band (Noel Crombie) who played the spoons.
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Amazing Blondel's twin 7-string Rubio guitar-lutes:
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That reminds me. I remember in the 70s I saw a group of 4 musicians, who had never met each other, improvise together. One of them had an old cello which had about 40 additional strings all over it.
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progadicto
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Posted: January 03 2007 at 03:41 |
Mexican band Cabezas de Cera use in their albums (and concerts) an extense set of string and wind instruments made by luthiers... I have the names on the Cd's but right now I'm not at home... BTW and remembering the "spoonman" here in Antofagasta (Chile) we got a guy known as "chico de las conchas". Basically is a guy who plays with clam shells following the music that sounds in his radio... The guy plays just crap but have a lot of amazing movements and is such a character round here... Sadly the image that I found of him is very bad, but, there he is EL CHICO DE LAS CONCHAS.... 
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 02 2007 at 19:39 |
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That acoustic thing that Gildenlow played on BE ("Imago," mostly) It's a one-of-a-kind instrument made by someone he knew. I forget who, exactly, but his uncle or a similar relation seems to ring a bell.
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: January 02 2007 at 19:32 |
Amazing Blondel's twin 7-string Rubio guitar-lutes:
The history of which is written here.
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Philéas
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Posted: January 02 2007 at 16:21 |
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Contrabass saxophone.
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N Ellingworth
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Posted: January 02 2007 at 08:42 |
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The theremin is wonderfully weird particularly when used with effects.
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Posted: January 02 2007 at 08:25 |
This guy, called Artis the Spoonman,a street performer from Santa Cruz California and later in Seattle, played music with a set of spoons. He was recruited by Soungarden and was featured in a song entitled Spoonman.The final version of the song featured him playing his spoons as part of the song's instrumental.
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Terra Australis
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Posted: January 02 2007 at 05:26 |
A lot of people would think that the Mellotron is a very unusual
musical instrument. Perhaps not people who frequent this web site, we
are too enlightened for that. We know it is the music that counts not
the instruments. The weirder the better (if it sounds good). Steve
Hackett is more than a great musician, he is an inovator when it comes
to composition, so when I read that he played the Optigan on his latest
CD, I had to check it out. There is a great web site dedicated to what
can only be called the poor man's mellotron. 
http://www.optigan.com/
It's worth checking out. So here is the point of the thread, is this
the weirdest instrument used in Prog? Or maybe someone has used that
thing with a stylus that Rolf Harris played... (Can't remember the
name). Or is it the THEREMIN?
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