Tag: musical instruments

behindthegrooves:

On this day in music history: October 10, 1902 – Luthier Orville H. Gibson establishes the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI. Gibson begins crafting mandolins in his home workshop beginning in 1894, being the first to build mandolins and guitars featuring hand carved arch tops, similar to the tops on violins and other classical string instruments. Gibson is granted a patent for his unique design. These innovations help to further popularize these instruments, in part by making them more durable and louder when played. When demand for Gibson’s instruments becomes too great for his small shop, he makes plans to expand his business with other luthiers and craftsmen helping him build instruments. The company eventually becomes known as the Gibson Guitar Company, who come forth with many innovations in stringed instruments. They revolutionize the development of the acoustic and electric guitars.

Cheer Up Post #5538 – Weird Musical Instruments Edition

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would like a post featuring weird musical instruments. Here you go!

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Images, in order:

1.) thauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

2.) pompompomPOM

3.) (plangent honking)

4.) THWONK

5.) neeeeeeeeeeeeeeweeeewwew

6.) ( “Blackbird” by the Beatles, but worse)

7.) noodly noodly noooooo~~~~

8.) SQUAM

9.) ( “Jaws” theme but multidimensional)

10. (No audible sound: ectoplasm spontaneously manifests from walls)

11.) nWOM/2

12.) Ominous Splorch

13.) fiddley deedly dooo da do, a rumpty riddle-me riddle-dee dore

13.) (celestially) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

14.) nyooooop nyooooop nope

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canardbabillard:

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Today’s pet peeve: a piano is not “a harp in a box”.

A piano is a dulcimer in a box.

A harpsichord is a harp in a box.

To be even more pedantic, it’s a hammered dulcimer in a box. Dulcimers are a pretty broad family and not all are, well, hammered.

A piano is the result of a frustrated dulcimerist going “what I really need is to be able to wield more hammers at once. No, more than that. More.”

To be fair, I’d say a harpsichord is more of a guitar/lute/etc. in a box, given the twanginess of it.

Proposal: rescore all of J S Bach’s harpsichord concertos for six-string banjo.

One of my coworkers once described an accordion as “a piano that squashes”.

Strictly speaking, an accordion is a mutant harmonica.