Comments on: Dance to the Beat of a Homemade Drummer

Dance to the Beat of a Homemade Drummer

jonp72 — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:32:05 -0800

The piatarbajo, the chromelodeon, the trimba, cloud chamber bowls, the simeon, the pyrophone, the virtual rhythmicon, cigar box guitars, the skatar, and all the other assorted instruments by musical visionaries who find guitar, bass, drums, and the symphony orchestra too confining.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:44:55 -0800

oil can guitars.

By: sklero

sklero — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:36:52 -0800

awesome post. slightly less mindblowing than the chromelodeon (43-tone-to-the-octave scale?!), but still pretty cool, is the optigan.

By: Meridian

Meridian — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:45:25 -0800

The Beer Bottle Organ and the 3 eyed photon clarinet. More here and here.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:38:57 -0800

Cool! something I came across recently: "Gametone" homemade instruments, "loosely patterned after Indonesian Gamelan and other world instruments". (And you can play some of them online.)

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:11:02 -0800

Ladies an' gents, let's hear it for Ben Neill and his mutantrumpet...

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:09:55 -0800

Listen to the Ditumba drum at the beginning of this Afropop stream. The drum has the dried egg sac of a spider attached which is what makes the odd buzzing sound. p.s. the rest of the stream is fantastic. p.p.s. Real audio

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:51:01 -0800

Airpoles, tubulum, drumbone, "PVC Instrument," shaker gong etc.

By: Fstop

Fstop — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:50:04 -0800

Satan's Calliope! - a portable Pyrophone

By: oaf

oaf — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:56:39 -0800

There's also Future Man and his drumitar.

By: arto

arto — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:14:39 -0800

Eleven string baritone guitar Knotafish, makers of the Trash Can Bass, Beer Keg Bass and more. Einsturzende Neubaten's scrap metal percussion. And whobo caban foborget, Fat Albert's Junkyard Band?