Why isn't sound of said hammer included in the video?

Violinists tapping bows on their music stands in Rossini's delightful overture to Il Signor Bruschino. Greetings from East Anglia in England.

If you've heard several performances, you realize that it's surprisingly hard to get those hammer strikes just right.

Great upload. I've added it to my KZfaq playlist, "Mahler Hammerschlag Hall of Fame." I've been listening to Mahler for decades and I'm amazed by how the Sixth has caught on. Who saw THAT coming?

There's the anvil in Rheingold, an instrument that also appears in "The Song of the Blacksmith" in Holst's Second Suite for Military Band and probably a dozen other pieces. Of course John Barnes Chance wrote a sort of "concerto grosso" for the percussion section in his "Incantation and Dance", but the percussion instruments used are not particularly unusual. Chance, who produced a good bit of first-rate band music, died way too young in a freak accident involving an electric fence, perhaps our Mahlerian Hero meeting his fate?

there's also wooden hammers in Ustvolskaya's Composition No. 2 and 5th symphony

(2:20) Jón Leifs made extensive use of non-traditional instruments, especially percussion. His Symphony No.1, the ballet Baldr, and tone poem Hekla, all run the gamut from the more familiar bass drums, timps and tamtam, to Mahler hammer, 'tuned' rocks sourced from the volcanic Icelandic wilderness, gun and cannon shots, swords, sea chains, struck anvils, and various types of bells. He also made repeated use of bronze lurs, a kind of primitive horn that goes back to the Iron Age. You can see and hear a sample of the hammer being used in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b79_YJmn166bZoE.html

Let us not forget the "deep bells" specified by Wagner for use in Acts I and III of "Parsifal" during those scenes at or near the Grail temple. These play a repeated pattern of 4 notes (C, G below, A just above and E below) as a very slow ostinato and are nothing like the normal orchestral tubular bells. These pitches allow Wagner to compose music in C major in Act I and E minor in Act III for use in the hopeful transformation scene and the despondent funeral scene respectively. The Festspielhaus at Bayreuth had numerous attempts over the years to get these right. The originals in 1882 were made by a piano manufacturer in the form of a pianoforte chassis with 4 thick, heavy strings. Other contraptions were made (some with huge barrel resonators) in subsequent years to get a better effect. Nowadays, opera houses tend to use recordings of actual church bells (probably not what Wagner intended) of the correct pitches or other types of bell-like sound.

A typewriter and a pistol in "Parade" by Erik Satie.

do a video about tchaikovsky's cannon! 😃

Thanks for the video!

AWESOME 💪 I believe that the scherzo should follow the first movement, regardless on how it was published- Mahler himself said,"If you believe something should be changed in his music, the conductor has not only the right, but the DUTY to change it-I believe that he meant things like the order of movements in the sixth, whether to play the repeat in the first movement, both in the third and sixth (which he put, just like Beethoven in the first movement of the sixth, pastoral) to show the critics, that he knew strict sonata form). I myself, believe the musical thoughts progress perfectly with the original formats. Just my point of view 🤗🤗♥️

Recording of a nightingale in Respighi's "Pines of Rome."

4 Helicopters Karl-Heinz Stockhausens "Helicopter String Quartet". Each carrying a member of the quarter, and they would circle the hall the piece was performed in, the players playing on the helicopters and their performance getting broadcast live into the venue. So you get a combination of the actual song, with the distant sound of helicopters.

Another unusual instrument is the Gramophone in the third movement of the Pines of Rome. Very pretty :)

Taxi horns in Gershwin's An American In Paris, and slap-stick in Ravel's Piano Concerto.

The Flexitone, which appears in the recap of the second movement of Kachaturian's Piano Concerto, is an unusual instrument.

Dropping chains have been used in a couple of pieces from a recent concert “Echoes of Egypt” and “A Russian Festival”

A ship bell (or break drum) in John Philip Sousa’s “The Liberty Bell March” (1893) to recreate a sound of The Liberty Bell

Cheese grater and slide flute, Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges.

What about the wind machine that was used in The Barber of Seville?

Just want to correct something. Thr gif with lorin maazel conducting is actually berlin phil performing maazel orchestral arrangement of wagner ring. The hammer blow in thr rheingold part is suppossed to be metalic hammer, but maazel changed it to wood.

Now you should add the Mahler hammer instrument to the collection (though it is kind of a hammer, the name is pretty self explanatory) it’s basically just a massive block of wood on a stick from classical music, also, interesting video!

Eerie wind/soprano in the background of Brian Easdale’s score for the ballet The Red Shoes.

Besides cannon in the 1812, there are the church bells (NOT chimes!) in Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, Verdi's anvil, the taxi horns in Gershwin's American in Paris. Those are off the top of my head.

Another weird instrument in a symphony is the wind machine played in Strauss’s Alpine symphony

Wind Machine, Richard Strauss uses one in Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), I had one made for my High School Band a few years ago.

The train whistle in H.C. Lumbeye's steam railway gallop... and whatever is used to make the chuffing noises in the same.

The strangest instrument is Doofwally's 2nd symphony where a midget on a pogo stick is required during the finale.

While the taxi horns for Gershwin's _An American in Paris_ are mentioned below, I didn't see any word about the collection of percussion instruments specified for his _Cuban Overture._ And let us not forget R. Murray Schafer’s _North/White,_ with its snowmobile soloist.

The gif at the bottom is actually from Der Ring Ohne Worte, not Mahler 6.

The best one: Prokofiev's Machine guns in the Cantata for the 20th anniversary of October Revolution.

Elgar uses the Jewish shofar in an extended passage at the start of his oratorio "The Apostles" (1903) set in Jerusalem just before sunrise, during the song of the Temple Watchers (where the choir sing music based on a Jewish tune). This is a ram's horn used during rituals in Judaism and only seems to be able to play two notes a major 6th apart but in various rhythms. In modern performances, given the scarcity of the instrument and performers, the part tends to be played on some other instrument such as trumpet, cornett or shawm.

The anvil in "The Song of the Blacksmith" in Holst's Second Suite for Military Band. Of course, Leopold Mozart wrote a symphony that included toy noisemakers as instruments in the score, and Peter Schickele, well, Peter Schickele....

That's some amazing content. I can't believe this channel has less than 1k subscribers.

A tubular bell drowned in water in Stig Nordhagen's Myth forest for Brass Band

There have been at least two pieces featuring vacuum cleaner. And i think Varèse scored aircraft engines. Don't forget Hindemith's Helicopter Quartet

The objects Ligeti used as percussion in "aventures" and "nouvelles aventures"

Solo with chaine-scie in Jackal's "I'm a Lumberjack".

I once played a piece called "Tenchoblade" that called for musicians to hit their stands with screwdrivers...

Is this a programme symphony? The way you described it seemed to indicate there is a clear dramatic story that is supposed to accompany it. I'm not much familiar with Mahler's works so I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.

How about using as a target the haunch of a cow being struck with a heavy battle axe type instrument draped in a chain mail like covering?

Leroy Anderson's typewriter!

A well tuned viola.

How about the anvils in the Anvil Chorus of Il Trovatore? Or a typewriter used in the soundtrack for the animated series Violet Evergarden.

Siren in Varese' "Ionisation."

IIRC, Khachaturian uses a flexatone in his piano concerto ...

Only one answer … Leroy Anderson performing the TYPEWRITER Symphony !

Alphorns in the music of Wagner and Strauss.

Chains in Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead.

Gallagher was born for this instrument...

Can anyone think of an orchestral piece that uses a thunder sheet?

Schoenberg's Gurrelieder has chains

The dill piccolo

Tchakovsky's use of cannons is the classic (ahem) example... oddly, these *have* to be an anachronism, because the black powder cannons used when Napoleon actually attacked Moscow would've been wildly inappropriate... "da-da-da-da BA-WOOOOM!" nope nope nope just musically WRONG. "da(BANG)-da(BANG)" can only be achieved with *smokeless powder* (which, oddly, wasn't available for the first performance, being invented two years later; I suspect the timpani were called to substitute). Lots of recordings out there with actual cannon now, ofc... perhaps the most famous being the Cincinnati Symphony with Eric Kunzel and the Oberlin cannons, which, according to the flyer in the CD, blew out the English department windows 700 feet away... this thing has a *warning label*.

Guitar and mandolin in Mahler's 7h

Wow, that Mahler. What a guy….

You can find some small hammers hitting metal in the Wagners "The ring of the Nibelung"

French taxi horns in "An American in Paris "

The only non-traditionnal (or peculiar) instruments that I can think of is the plethora of percussions used in some Penderecki symphonies.

How about Siegfried's hammer when he reforges his father's sword? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLh6dNOHz9zcenk.html

Talking of 1906, that was the year of the great earthquake of the seventh seal in Revelation.

Not sure what it is, but there’s a high pitched windy sound in one the last variations of Strauss’ Don Quixote

Love how you used the correct map of Germany; many KZfaqrs just use the modern borders.

Andanta - third movement better imo.

The siren at the end of the first Kammermusik by Hindemith. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g65khKmQr5i9cn0.html

typewriter used in a symphony

THE CANNONS

1812 Cannons

Mahler #6 is the most disturbing of the symphonies.

wagner also has some hammers in the ring cycle

Scherzo-Andante gang

Why would you not include this part in the video? Your video is incomplete.

The ping pong concerto

Yes Canon

ummm tchaikovsky 1812 cannons

So you're a musician eh? What instrument do you play? Its complicated...

Beer steins in Carmina Burana

JIFF

Toys in the Toy Symphony!

why does Mahler sound so weird?

Gershwin used different pitched taxi horns in American in Paris

Absolute silence!!! 4'33

wind machine in Strauss Alpensinfonie

The Ondes Martenot in Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.

Best and unbeatable sound of Thor´s hammer is Solti´s on Wagner Rheingold sorry but Mahlers not even close of that masterpice

Anvils in Wagner's Ring cycle. (Das Rheingold).

The Nordic mythology impression is funny because Mahler was jewish

Cannons in 1812

The typewriter! Lol

Fake church Bell in Wagner opera

The heavy iron chains ("Kettern") in Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder".