The girl in red made this instrument

[Recursion]

I want one.

The Kala Godha Arts festival: everybody should come see it. Seriously: when she wants to play a different song she tunes it by adjusting the pipes. This shit is amazing.

[csziggy]

1. What is she using to slap the tops of the pipes?

They look like shoe liners.

When I was a kid, my oldest sister set up a glass harp and made some other instruments from found objects, including one made of pipes. I never got to see her play the pipe one - she took that to some musical camp thing. She was a musical genius though once she got into medical school she gave up playing instruments.

Her glass harp was not as elaborate as this one and didn't have the range because she didn't have the variety of glasses to work with:

[rurallib]

2. ever hear of Ben Franklin's armonica

been fascinated by it for years.

My understanding is that part of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies " was written for the armonica. IIRC the armonica was banned in many places because of the eerie sound it produced:

This is actually @ 2:30 and a minute of credits

[csziggy]

4. Yes - that is really neat and I love the sound of it nt

[Recursion]

3. Shoe liners covering rubber mallets (nt)

[CBGLuthier]

5. For anyone who would like to make one

http://makezine.com/projects/pvc-pipe-instrument/


Not too hard or expensive to make.