Post weird instruments (bonus points for metal)
[video]https://youtu.be/hBVJl7uAIgk[/video]
electric 6 string cello w/ fuzz
[video]https://youtu.be/MYpDOp0VL1M[/video]
so mad that this guy hasn't shared stl/gcode for this because pocket-sized bari sax is my dream instrument
sometimes I debate just paying someone to figure this out and print one for me tbh
[video]https://youtu.be/SLTZuiDC1yk[/video]
drums are the only normal instrument in this black metal band
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaEreW8tLDY[/video]
slide saxophone?
As featured on https://staging-wiki.wetfish.net/noise
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=Am-faoBgwt8[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIUVUVUWB58[/video]
microtonal guitar
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi4Kd01UUnY[/video]
fretless guitar
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i275NHmbF5M[/video]
the top half of a bagpipe
Whenever I'm at a EDM show, I find myself envisioning an instrument based off of the same chain and gear system that bicycles have. The chain would go through it's loop, activating different physical triggers that the player could mount and unmount. The physical triggers could be any number of percussive instruments or even piano strings of different length. Essentially, the player is able to make a loop for a dance song in real time using physical systems instead of an electronic one.
[video]https://youtu.be/ll1xoCYBTo8[/video]
tenor drums
[video]https://youtu.be/U54MgfRlvZc[/video]
carrilon
Quote from: Diabolizer on June 17, 2025, 10:20:43 PM
Whenever I'm at a EDM show, I find myself envisioning an instrument based off of the same chain and gear system that bicycles have. The chain would go through it's loop, activating different physical triggers that the player could mount and unmount. The physical triggers could be any number of percussive instruments or even piano strings of different length. Essentially, the player is able to make a loop for a dance song in real time using physical systems instead of an electronic one.
I feel like I've seen something like this but can't find it. It reminds me of Author & Punisher who makes his own electronic instruments with the philosophy that heavy mechanisms translate into heavy sounds
[video]https://youtu.be/cmUzdM2iYJE[/video]
Also his album "Krüller" is great
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5RTHDj9RE[/video]
Quote from: spencer on July 01, 2025, 04:36:00 PM
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5RTHDj9RE[/video]
that's the weirdest harmonica I've ever seen
[video]https://youtu.be/fR-64Sdn_CM?list=RDfR-64Sdn_CM[/video]
Pat Metheny (a great jazz musician) on his 42-string guitar
[video]https://youtu.be/jy1E4pIMid0[/video]
nyckelharpa is a real contraption
Damn this thread is sick AF!
Yall ever heard of an Udu? I really wanna play one... one day. Heheh
Quote from: Fishmé on July 26, 2025, 01:41:30 AM
Yall ever heard of an Udu? I really wanna play one... one day. Heheh
[video]https://youtu.be/oSADX7yWRSo?si=582zprqf4Lq8eEK6[/video]
Quote from: Fishmé on July 26, 2025, 01:43:10 AM
Quote from: Fishmé on July 26, 2025, 01:41:30 AM
Yall ever heard of an Udu? I really wanna play one... one day. Heheh
[video]https://youtu.be/oSADX7yWRSo?si=582zprqf4Lq8eEK6[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/3yBNZ2_nBlI?si=lurCmzRncO28Pjsf[/video]
God damn I love niche instruments. Heheh
They're so good!
[video]https://youtu.be/Udy_Oq0ZZOk?list=RDUdy_Oq0ZZOk[/video]
Fretless banjo made out of a gourd
bonus not-weird banjos
- https://youtu.be/Oaoc7wmW6d0?list=RDOaoc7wmW6d0 Banjo at the LHC, I saw this guy give a talk at the science museum
- https://youtu.be/ubC7ClPrH1g
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkhAg8S_Gs love this song
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0_nOBUGCU
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RosDxQIjf8[/video]
Guzheng
[video]https://youtu.be/BSlMWSwlY78[/video]
doctor seuss-ass bullshit from germany called a Schalmei
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABZEwyS5KLQ[/video]
piccolo and contrabass trombone
Quote from: rachel on July 02, 2025, 02:06:21 PM
Quote from: spencer on July 01, 2025, 04:36:00 PM
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5RTHDj9RE[/video]
that's the weirdest harmonica I've ever seen
I think this might actually count as a harmonica, the mechanics are pretty much the same
Quote from: spencer on July 27, 2025, 07:33:27 AM
Quote from: rachel on July 02, 2025, 02:06:21 PM
Quote from: spencer on July 01, 2025, 04:36:00 PM
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5RTHDj9RE[/video]
that's the weirdest harmonica I've ever seen
I think this might actually count as a harmonica, the mechanics are pretty much the same
It sounds like one too! Except way cooler. Like if a harmonica was a pipe organ
[video]https://youtu.be/DsE2OUpzW_I[/video]
double-necked electric ukulele and harpsichord
[video]https://youtu.be/ZK1JGG4-dIk[/video]
japanese calculator
[video]https://youtu.be/0YZTkrs7p3Q[/video]
12 string AND baritone guitar
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=/GRh4vXqdb7w?si=EOk2P6uUsCGtIS7h[/video]
Quote from: Fishmé on August 21, 2025, 11:32:06 PM
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=/GRh4vXqdb7w?si=EOk2P6uUsCGtIS7h[/video]
woaaaaah that's so cool
sometimes while hiking I surprise people with grass whistles
[video]https://youtu.be/J-nIBA0V_No[/video]
mushroom synth
[video]https://youtu.be/WzYiw7mmmGU[/video]
whamola
[video]https://youtu.be/MKJQB2qOIV8[/video]
musical road?
Quote from: spencer on August 23, 2025, 09:14:53 AM
[video]https://youtu.be/J-nIBA0V_No[/video]
mushroom synth
[video]https://youtu.be/WzYiw7mmmGU[/video]
whamola
[video]https://youtu.be/MKJQB2qOIV8[/video]
musical road?
Mushrooms synth!
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=/PgbtqCdg0AE?si=b4XmmTDZd-omALoR[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/XPqeU5DjOrs[/video]
electric kalimba
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZqn3AePxI[/video]
3d-printed comb thing
[video]https://youtu.be/Assa__Snvmw[/video]
tesla coil
[video]https://youtu.be/XzEv0B0Th60?t=18[/video]
3d printer
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ggp1iBGMmo[/video]
laser etcher
[video]https://youtu.be/zqMdUQvN-Dk[/video]
laser harp
[video]https://youtu.be/u9QmfUbAFvw[/video]
bell suit
I don't know if these count as weird but they were very big and I liked them, it was certainly novel
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXB6uvSp7w[/video]
It was super loud and it filled the street with music and they didn't even need to use an amp
Quote from: rachel on September 21, 2025, 09:42:53 PM
I don't know if these count as weird but they were very big and I liked them, it was certainly novel
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXB6uvSp7w[/video]
It was super loud and it filled the street with music and they didn't even need to use an amp
This is really cool. I saw this posted in matrix first and immediately went to search for bass marimba for this thread
[video]https://youtu.be/WHMM5lC8FEg[/video]
Bass marimba
I like listening to Dirtwire so mouth harps aren't really weird to me, but I guess for most people they are a weird instrument
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VQxa7ctic[/video]
YouTube has started recommending weird musical instruments to me now. I blame this thread
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkJY-nOV7tE[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/wZ7rMsE1ia8[/video]
"Clavemusicum Omnitonum" - some kind of microtonal harpsichord thing
[video]https://youtu.be/trTDTCixA_c[/video]
rocks
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14EpDiRdS-U[/video]
3d-printed octocontra-alto clarinet
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_WFgbbZ_I[/video]
floor thing
Quote from: spencer on October 19, 2025, 09:21:37 AM
[video]https://youtu.be/trTDTCixA_c[/video]
rocks
this is some fred flinstone type shit
Quote from: spencer on October 19, 2025, 09:26:06 AM
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14EpDiRdS-U[/video]
3d-printed octocontra-alto clarinet
it's like I can hear his house rattling as he plays those low notes 😂
Quote from: rachel on October 04, 2025, 12:35:43 AM
I like listening to Dirtwire so mouth harps aren't really weird to me, but I guess for most people they are a weird instrument
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VQxa7ctic[/video]
Heard the new Dirt wire songs with Clozee?
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-tq5JSz3E[/video]
kazookeylele
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omgbhGirTtY[/video]
factory fan
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2K8CYSZVPU[/video]
tibetan yak horn, sape
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW7zHozxENE[/video]
tapi, different from sape
[video]https://youtu.be/MvqlrUU9apU[/video]
kravik lyre
[video]https://youtu.be/p7Q33U2pXUw[/video]
bulgarian kaval
[video]https://youtu.be/vVog9dK42Ro[/video]
tin whistle
[video]https://youtu.be/-Iu1pA4sDbc[/video]
tenor, bass, great bass, contrabass recorders
[video]https://youtu.be/sotvgwFm-MI[/video]
bowed psaltery
0/10 sounds awful, worst instrument yet
[video]https://youtu.be/Qmxnp_3KUt0[/video]
subcontrabass flute
[video]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5QjtI7vvX6g[/video]
cimbasso
"utonal just intonation guitar"
[video]https://youtu.be/dHLG5dAlfaA[/video]
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=/7opVh5mM-wM?si=2QXT2zcyPebu8kFs[/video]