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20 Feb 2011, 10:42 pm

behold - a MONSTER!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WVT321LSUc&feature=related[/youtube]
this humongous honker plays lower than most pipe organs!



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20 Feb 2011, 10:43 pm

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I have a Celtic tinwhistle, though I haven't learned to play it properly. Seems rude to the neighbors. :?


save it for a rainy day, when you have rude neighbors to bother.



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20 Feb 2011, 11:02 pm

Wow, I am nowhere near roger's level, that's excellence. I can trill my whistles on inhales but nothing near the level of control he has here..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICc2MiApS30[/youtube]



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20 Feb 2011, 11:18 pm

auntblabby wrote:
behold - a MONSTER!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WVT321LSUc&feature=related[/youtube]
this humongous honker plays lower than most pipe organs!
Ugh, I hate octobasses. I like low notes, but that's much too low. In my own opinion, the sound you get is not worth the effort. Takes two people to play it, or an elaborate machine like the one he has there.



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20 Feb 2011, 11:42 pm

Jonsi wrote:
I like low notes, but that's much too low. In my own opinion, the sound you get is not worth the effort. Takes two people to play it, or an elaborate machine like the one he has there.


one person can play it quite sufficiently. the 7 levers the player depresses [or the foot pedals on the french version] cover all the "basses" [bad pun] well enough.
speaking of low notes, i remember reading about a certain humongous star that, when it supernova'd, it produced a ringing bell-like tone that was pitched several HUNDRED octaves below middle C. i LOVE low notes, the lower the better. i used to have a carver amazing subwoofer that could reproduce all the way down to 16 cycles per second, so when i had it i listened to my collection of pipe organ records, and since that sub sucked so much juice from the wall, the house lights would dim on the low notes.



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20 Feb 2011, 11:49 pm

Eh, I honestly think I'm more of a cello guy, meaning I'm in the middle on these things. D: I should engineer the "Electric Cello guitar". :D



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20 Feb 2011, 11:57 pm

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Eh, I honestly think I'm more of a cello guy, meaning I'm in the middle on these things. D: I should engineer the "Electric Cello guitar". :D


did you know there is a bowing technique that lets a cello reproduce notes an octave lower than what the strings are nominally tuned for? i heard it demonstrated by a violinist who could play "subharmonics" that had her instrument play as low as a cello.



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21 Feb 2011, 12:03 am

auntblabby wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
Eh, I honestly think I'm more of a cello guy, meaning I'm in the middle on these things. D: I should engineer the "Electric Cello guitar". :D


did you know there is a bowing technique that lets a cello reproduce notes an octave lower than what the strings are nominally tuned for? i heard it demonstrated by a violinist who could play "subharmonics" that had her instrument play as low as a cello.
I did not. I would be totally sold to buy a cello if it was tuned EADG like a bass. D:

It can be, but it's kinda hard.



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21 Feb 2011, 12:08 am

Jonsi wrote:
\It can be, but it's kinda hard.


i must've missed something- what exactly is hard?



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21 Feb 2011, 8:32 am

Tuned to EADG.