CloudSix Posted July 17, 2015 #1 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Have you heard of some new instruments that have been invented and that are not based on anything old. Do they even exist? Why are we not making more, inventing and coming up with ideas of new instruments? I can think of the thing that Jean Michel Jarre played at his concerts, but other than that nothing comes to mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarMountainKid Posted July 17, 2015 #2 Share Posted July 17, 2015 How about this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted July 17, 2015 #3 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Why would we make more instruments when all anyone does is make "beats" with computers now.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubbly_Dooright Posted July 17, 2015 #4 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Don't forget acapella?!?!? *Looks sheepish* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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back to earth Posted July 17, 2015 #7 Share Posted July 17, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(instrument) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted July 17, 2015 #8 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Yeah, I know you wanted something not based on an earlier instrument but .... really there is only the clonky stick, whack skin, twangy thing and blowing in a tube (even a wind harp is a twangy thing ). [ And I have had the above Colin Offid play for me ( right in my face, no amplification at all - as I doubted what I heard from him on stage with it ) an eagle feather, it sounded like it had gone through a synthesiser ! ... that's another blowing in a tube thing- he had made a flute out of it. ] Now, we can put the Hang, clonky stick thing and synthesiser together ( why not ? ) and get .... Oooooo chilly/spacey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickian Posted July 17, 2015 #9 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Honestly, we reached the peak of musical brilliance when the theremin was used to give us 50's alien-invader/space music. Humanity's best work is already behind us. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted July 17, 2015 #10 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Don't forget acapella?!?!? *Looks sheepish* I thought that was a Mexican holiday resort!.......Ah wait....that's Acapulco....sorry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted July 17, 2015 #11 Share Posted July 17, 2015 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarMountainKid Posted July 18, 2015 #12 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I think a truly new musical instrument would have to create sounds not heard before that instrument was created. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllJay Posted July 19, 2015 #13 Share Posted July 19, 2015 (edited) Viola Organista Leonardo da Vinci - one of his lesser-known contributions to the cultural landscape was an elaborate musical instrument he designed called the “viola organista.”Da Vinci never ended up building this bizarre musical instrument, but now the viola organista no longer exists purely in da Vinci’s eternal dreams — thanks to Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki, who spent four years building his own version of it. Last month, he debuted the instrument — which, from afar, looks more or less like a grand piano It works like this: In the place of a piano’s felt hammers, spinning wheels draw across the strings like a violinist’s bow. The player operates a foot pedal to spin the wheels, playing notes on a keyboard identical to a piano’s. But the sound, sinewy like a stringed instrument but with a piano’s direct, well-defined tones, defies comparison to traditional instruments . Edited July 19, 2015 by EllJay 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllJay Posted July 19, 2015 #14 Share Posted July 19, 2015 (edited) The SynthAxe One of the lesser known, "new", instrument invented/created. "The SynthAxe is a fretted, guitar-like MIDI controller, created by Bill Aitken, Mike Dixon, and Tony Sedivy and manufactured in England in the middle to late 1980s. It is a musical instrument that uses electronic synthesizers to produce sound and is controlled through the use of an arm resembling the neck of a guitar in form and in use." "The neck of the instrument is angled upwards from the body, and there are two independent sets of strings. The fretboard is continuously scanned and sends signals to synthesizers which produce the sound. The left set determine the pitch played, through contact with the frets on the neck and by sensing the side-to-side bending of the string. The right set of strings are velocity sensitive; these strings can be plucked, strummed or damped in the same manner as a guitar's. A keyboard made up of nine keys can also be used to trigger notes instead of the strings." The SynthAxe is no longer produced and it is very difficult to locate used units (fewer than 100 were made http://youtu.be/JqdVQ9VdoAg Edited July 19, 2015 by EllJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StarMountainKid Posted August 7, 2015 #16 Share Posted August 7, 2015 The Ondes Martenot, an electronic musical device was invented in 1928 (!) by Maurice Martenot. Way ahead of its time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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