I am!

@@NicolasBras Never change

I don't even consider myself much of a musician but that sounds exactly like me and now I'm wondering if I should start learning about various instruments and their construction and mechanics so I can make my own out of, like, scrap wood/metal or something. In all seriousness, if you give me a musical instrument or even just something that makes nice noises, I'll probably be occupied for at least a few hours just messing around, trying to figure out the sound parameters (not sure if that's the right word just sounded right to me), if not, like, a week. I'm starting to wonder if that's why I'm so unnecessarily long-winded when I'm typing things out on a computer - that is, if I just really like to listen to myself type? It might explain a lot.

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That is exactly me...

Acoustic talkbox!

talk about auto-tune

Thanks!

Right!

The OG talkbox

@@NicolasBras ppggrf

Heyyy guys! Hope all's ok! Do you think that it is possible to do an eletric dan Kni? Im not sure, because the mouth works as a resonator... anyways, Im a couple of months I'll build One myself and get a Pickup up close to the string to check what happens!

Nélio Candelária I was just wondering the same thing! Please let us know if do it, I’d love to see it!

Thanks!

Thanks, send me videos!

Thanks!

It would make a fun project to visit traditional musicians around the world and share his instruments with them.

Thanks a lot!

@@NicolasBras absolutely! it's like world music on MDMA

Thanks!

What do you mean by wind string? I can’t imagine this.

I have to try, do you have videos of your system?

@@NicolasBras I try to get one. This is a installation I made for a friend some years ago. See my next post for a closer idee what we did.

@@KingfisherTalkingPictures Oh, it's a a long wooden blank aprox. 2-3 m and a string is mounted. And it is placed on the side of a house. On stormy days the wind made the string to vibrate. The wind has to do the same job like the bow. This installation was placed near by the shore. And the sound should be transfered into a house through a existing hole in the wall without the use of electricity (It was a summer house not connected to the mains). So we used a string to transfer the sound in a similar way like Nicolas shown here. We used a tin can as "receiver/resonator" (in fact it's nothing more than on side of those string telefones we build as kids). Due to the harsh weather, we needed a weather proof material. So we came up with some strings for stunt kites we used on the beach. First we used some natural string material after the replacement the sound was much louder and with more overtones. Sorry for my poor english. I hope this was understandable.

Nice, send me videos!

Et du coup avec ce système impossible de mettre une deuxième corde ?

Oui, j'ai un copain qui fait de l'import d'instruments, pareil pour lui! J'ai réfléchi à quelques idées pour mettre plusieurs cordes, mais ça devient vite beaucoup plus complexe

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C'est vrai, en même temps il y a vraiment peu d'infos dessus en ligne...je n'ai jamais trouvé une bonne performance live de cet instrument...? A part le monsieur en solo dans les extraits bien sûr, mais la seconde vidéo est en play-back...

Thank you!

Thanks!

Solid chuckle

Merci!

Sound good.~

Un grand merci !

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Merci, envoie-moi le résultat!

Thanks!

It is hard to articulate actual words, there is a lot of possible variations, but speaking is hard! The first man on the video can really speak, it is impressive. I have a theory that vietnamese is better than english or french to articulate on instruments, because of the single phonemes with a lot of consonants, and that could be why they have a lot of speaking instruments, the a'reng, the dan moi, the dan k'ni...maybe it is 100% wrong but I like this theory!

Would be fun!

Vietnamese instruments are incredible, probably the most creative country for unique acoustic principles!

its not even vietnamese lol its jarai and tampuan. the indigenous people of cambodia and vietnam bro

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J'en ai fait avec du scotch et avec du papier cigarette, pas le même rendu mais ça donne quelque chose d'intéressant!

Great, send me videos!

Thanks! It's growing well those days!

Un grand merci !

Thanks!

Of course, but I loose the harmonic effects with the mouth, that's the point of this instrument!

I don't know, never tried! But this mouthpiece need to work like a membrane or a diaphragm, many with very thin bamboo...I don't know!

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Un grand merci !

Grand merci! J'ai fait une version avec bec de clarinette qui est sur mon Patreon, il faut que je trouve un bec de sax

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Thanks!

I made soma variations on electric basses, but this time I wanted my good old Godin!

@@NicolasBras So dispointed = UNSUB 😉

Working on it, but it will be a big one!

I have to try!

It works well with a drilled nut, but for live instrument I need instruments I can tune without tools, the guitar peg is the only solution I have for now!

Thanks! Hard question, I can't tell precise musical influences, I'm more influenced by sounds than actual music..!

Grand merci! Le livre est disponible via Patreon uniquement pour le moment!

Thanks!

I don't know, there is probably an influence but I tried only one cotton string, and this hemp string, and they both works with similar effects..!

It would be possible I guess!

Glad you enjoyed it!