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Posted: 1/3/2007 5:39:05 PM | | ...what instruments can you recall hearing in music at one point in time or another...that you just don't hear anymore? I remember in the 80's the Hammond B-3 almost disappeared...but common sense prevailed to take 'earthy' over synthesis (whew!). However, the Leslie and the Theramin did not have such a good fate. Care to add anything to this (to share knowledge about obscure instruments, or , to just maybe to add more to the list?!?) ? | |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 6:06:59 PM | | Nothing in software or digital effects has even come close to replacing The Leslie cab. Even Hammond's own XK-2 leslie emulation is a poor simulation at best. I have a C-2 (just missing the factory percussion but will probably add the Trek eventually) and an A-100 as well as the XK-2 and I use all of them with a Leslie. The XK-2 even has the pin out for it. Theramins? Yeah, I haven't heard one of those lately! You know what ya never hear anymore? The Hurty Gerty... Still trying to figure out the best way to mic one of those... | |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 10:34:14 PM | I've got a fever...and the only cure is MORE COWBELL!
...seriously now...not a lot of nice hand drums...gotta love the hand drums...and more mandolin, glockenspiel, and TUBULAR BELLS! | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 11:37:44 AM | How about the Banjo.
It was used a lot in early Jazz as it could stand up to the drums and horns. But with the advent of Electric gutiars it has faded away to the land of Blue Grass. | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 11:37:52 AM | Sakbut (well, that's kinda like a trombone, right?)
Anything from the viol family... (but that's kind of like a cello)..
I have pretty eclectic tastes in music, so I can honestly say that I've heard these two instruments in the past week. *grins* | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 1:50:46 PM | I have an ancient suitcase model Rhodes 73 keyboard. You still hear Rhodes occasionally, mostly when a band wants a retro sound.
I heard a song on the radio today that uses a 12 string Rickenbacker guitar -- now that's something you don't hear too often these days! (Starts whistling "8 Miles High"... .)
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Posted: 1/4/2007 5:59:21 PM | Most of the instruments mentioned above are still actively played but one has to look for it.
I have a compilation CD, a "all star tribute to the Hammond B3 Organ". Some rock, some jazz and even some techno.
Saw a modern version of a Leslie (the spinning speaker thing) last summer at an local outdoor concert, to great effect.
Banjo? Please check out Bela Fleck, he does jazz, country, rock, classic and even Hendrix. Yes, he plays an electric banjo.
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Posted: 1/5/2007 7:11:49 AM | Thanks Doc, I do know of Bela, saw his concert the last time he past by. A great mix of styles, as you pointed out. The whole group was amazing.
But I think the point was more about how the choice of instruments has changed over the Years. We still find some being used but, there are always those instruments that are more common, easier to find/buy, get lessons and find notation. (I could only find two Banjo teachers in a major city of over 4 Million!)
In the 60s Organs were very common in popular music. Back at the turn of the century Banjo was a major part of Jazz. A hundred years before that it was Violins and French horns. This morning however I did heard a cover of a Buffalo Springfield tune done with a Bassoon.
Hey what's that sound, everybody look what's going down.... | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 9:59:30 AM | I use a theremin in my set actually. How about rototoms? anyone apart from me still use them?
Toe knee :-) | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 1:48:54 PM | Kalimba, Dobro, Gaida, lets not forget the Cowbell...I need more Cowbell!!! | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 2:43:43 PM | | I just saw a local band who used a Dobro. God.... I nearly drooled on it- it was in immaculate condition and silver. I dont even want to think about what the guy playing thought I was looking at. | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 3:58:58 PM | | I remember hearing a sarod before...and thinking that it was a pretty cool instrument to have in songs as long as it is in moderation...the more common sitar is appreciated here as well...but it is often used in long marathon sessions were the playing goes on and on with the same note.... | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 5:33:33 PM | None of these are "forgotten"
Hell!, ...I have my own Hammond and I'm not a keyboard player.....
Maybe you people should start listening to the non-mainstream, ...kalimba?
There's kalimba/m'biri on nearly every track of the last CD I worked on.
Dobro?
Got one, play it all the time.
Hell! I play the oud, thousands of years old, the saz? a little younger.
Get into adult music, spurn the mainstream!
It's plenty good.
There are no forgotten instruments, ...only lazy ears.
Gotta love that kalimba! | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 6:27:03 PM | ^^^^
I dig it!
Gabby La-La plays a mean sitar on Claypool's latest album...
...what about the Fujara...a massive upright wooden flute....haunting...look it up
...correct me if I'm wrong late...but isn't Dobro a brand name resinator guitar?
I got a VERY OLD resinator guitar sitting in my basment...got "Maybell" on the headstock...but it's only a 4 string instrument....needs restoration....BADLY...
...more like a banjo I suppose...
I'm guessing from the 20's or 30's... | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 8:33:21 AM | I admire anyone who tackles playing a harp.. and I don't mean the harmonica in this context.  | |
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Posted: 1/8/2007 4:01:40 AM | Hmmm? ...that's Greek to me.....
Here you go, a blast from the past, a top-10 hit from 128 BC
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/aulos/Ligy.mp3
Kinda' Gershwin-esque..... innit?
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Posted: 1/8/2007 8:37:56 AM | I keep hearing Rhapsody in Uzo in that sample...
I love the sound of the aulos, the bazuki? ...no.
What do you expect from an Oud player?
I even know how to tune a Kalimba.
The instrument I would like to get a hold of though, is a dolan rawap. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2007 9:14:20 AM | Dolan rawap! Neat..Like a Chinese Banjo.
I see eBay has a few for about us$250...
Know where you might find sheet music for it? | |
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Posted: 1/8/2007 9:59:11 AM | That region is more along the lines of Turkic music, the Uyghur peoples aren't ethnically Chinese.
The Rawap is more like an oud.
Another one I'd like to pick up is the Tembori which is like an Baglama Saz (Turkish), but even lower pitched (4.5' long).
Know where you might find sheet music for it?
Of course.
If you like the banjo type instruments check out the Cumbus family of stringed intruments (also Turkey).
You can get them in many chordaphone styles, including banjo (and Tembori, Saz, Oud, styles) | |
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