Sunday, June 28, 2009

There-What??

Theremin! Sounds like some vitamin or mineral? Think again. It's a musical instrument that I just got to know about from a friend. Not your conventional instrument with pipes, strings, skins or those things. It's more like air guitar - with sound! (not guitar sound of course) Or maybe a better description would be making music on TV antennae. And to think it was invented in 1920!

Check out the following post on Wikipedia and the YouTube video!

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

Monday, June 8, 2009

Roaring Bulls!

Just got inspired to post something about an aborigine communication device called the bullroarer. It doesn't have anything to do with bulls or roaring, and I'm not even sure if it can be called an instrument. But here it is anyway.

So what's a bullroarer? Very simply, it's just a block of wood tied to a length of string. How do you use it? Easy! Just swing it around! But be careful where you swing those things!

Some video clips:



And something funny to lighten things up:



And if those are too small, check this one out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnVUlx_NegY&feature=related