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    Posted: January 14 2007 at 10:29
On Caravan's second album, "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You", Richard Sinclair plays hedge clippers (!) as a percussion instrument in the marvellous song "Hello Hello".
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Intonarumori, 1913.




Trautonium, 1930.
Percussion, sir!
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I've got 'em all beat. The Nose Flute, used by Jefferson Airplane on "Lather".LOL
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I've "played" an autoharp. IT is really cool/weird.
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The musical saw. It produces a ghosty sound. For example, you can hear it on the main chorus of Hide In Your Shell (Supertramp). They used a street musician.
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one of the most versatile rock musicians ever, john paul jones also uses the Koto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_%28musical_instrument%29) in his solo albums (for atmospheres and also for playing some zeppelin songs just as good as page did), the bass lap stell guitar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar an acoustic one i guess) - he used it with zepp on Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, and the auto-harp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoharp) - for the solo albums i guess.



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while The Tea Party were touring once, they collected traditional indtruments from every country they played in and used them for their next LP and so became one of the best albums ever:


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sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...



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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Anybody know what this thing is?


    

i don't know... fartophone????
-music is like pornography...

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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

 
Keyharp, not used in Prog as far as i know. But common in swedish folk-music.
 
Garmarna uses this if I'm not wrong. They are in PA so I suppose someone thinks they are prog, though I have never seen them as such.
 


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@frasse, i posted above a picture of john paul jones using one of his favourite instrument - the double-neck bass, which he used also while in led zeppelin, but i can't figure if it's an electric or an acoustic one.
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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Accordion, used by Kebnekaise & Samla Mammas Manna...
The Accordion is actually the most common instrument of the 20th century.
 
Doubleneck Bass/guitar used by Genesis
Have been used by Led Zeppelin and The Eagles too, to mention the most famous. It has probably been used by many more prog bands too. EDIT: To be honest, I don't know if LZ and Eagles used a bass/guitar or just a dubble-necked guitar.
 
Balalaika, used somewhere i think
In Russia, also by swedish Södra Bergens Balalajkor.
 


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Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem 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.
 
He has also played with Mats & Morgan Band, whish just have been added to PA.
 


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Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem Majestic_Mayhem wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Donkey Jawbone.
 
 
Plain and simple.
Incidentaly, Samson ( you know the very powerful guy with really long hair in the Bible's Old Testament? ) used that as a weapon against the Amonites (if my memory serves me well). He killed well over 10k of them.Confused
 
LOL
 
Nice. Musical instruments have a varity of uses. Good to know. Smile
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Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem Majestic_Mayhem wrote:

Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem Majestic_Mayhem wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Donkey Jawbone.
 
 
Plain and simple.
Incidentaly, Samson ( you know the very powerful guy with really long hair in the Bible's Old Testament? ) used that as a weapon against the Amonites (if my memory serves me well). He killed well over 10k of them.Confused
 
Sampson? That dude coulda killed you ten times with a wet newspaper...
Incidentaly, the wet newspaper can be used also as a substitute for the snare guitar, and for swatting flies.
 
The flyswatter was, incidentally, used to great effect by muscians in the movie "Mystery Train."
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Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem Majestic_Mayhem wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Donkey Jawbone.
 
 
Plain and simple.
Incidentaly, Samson ( you know the very powerful guy with really long hair in the Bible's Old Testament? ) used that as a weapon against the Amonites (if my memory serves me well). He killed well over 10k of them.Confused
 
Sampson? That dude coulda killed you ten times with a wet newspaper...
Incidentaly, the wet newspaper can also be used  as a substitute for the snare guitar, and for swatting flies.


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Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem Majestic_Mayhem wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Donkey Jawbone.
 
 
Plain and simple.
Incidentaly, Samson ( you know the very powerful guy with really long hair in the Bible's Old Testament? ) used that as a weapon against the Amonites (if my memory serves me well). He killed well over 10k of them.Confused
 
Sampson? That dude coulda killed you ten times with a wet newspaper...
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Donkey Jawbone.
 
 
Plain and simple.
Incidentaly, Samson ( you know the very powerful guy with really long hair in the Bible's Old Testament? ) used that as a weapon against the Amonites (if my memory serves me well). He killed well over 10k of them.Confused

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Donkey Jawbone.
 
 
Plain and simple.
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Here is this from a review of Dun's "Eros" that can be found here:

http://www.chez.com/soleilzeuhlrecords/eng/dun-gb.html

" On stage, Pascal (Vandenbulcke) played a totally new and original instrument, the gruyèrophone, also known as swisscheesophone, which he used to describe to the audience as "a wind instrument belonging to the hunting horn family, with a tuba mouthpiece and a square-shaped bell into which small bits of swiss cheese are introduced. The technique is not unlike that of the bagpipe. When the player is tired of blowing the instrument, the small holes in the swiss cheese then burst, taking over from the performer and allowing him to catch his breath".

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