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What is remarkable to me isn't The Machine -- lots of people make clockwork novelty instruments and make videos. What's remarkable to me is that the song is absolutely lovely.Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments
Wintergatan. The Winter Street, Swedish for Milky Way.
First time I saw this video I was dumbstruck. I can't even fathom the amount of engineering, fine tuning, trial-and-error that goes into creating a completely new instrument, an automaton, from scratch.
I guess it's technically a string instrument?
The machine has cannibalized a bass guitar.
Wintergatan - Marble Machine
If you check the how-it-works video, you can hear the difference between the room-mics and the line-audio from the instruments and how completely different they are, BUT that he managed to consciously incorporate some of the room-sounds into the song and made them feel like perfect pieces of the puzzle. Like the grinding gears, the spinning fly-wheel, the ratcheting of the conveyor belts...Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments
What is remarkable to me isn't The Machine -- lots of people make clockwork novelty instruments and make videos. What's remarkable to me is that the song is absolutely lovely.
Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments
I mean... most bands feature a guitar or something like that somewhere.
This band brings a cello.
"Dirty Imbecile" - The Happy Fits
I have not heard this band before. Thank you for making the introduction.Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments
Guitar, drums, cello. And they rock it.
"Mary," The Happy Fits
I love Nickle Creek and you beat me to them. Bad Purple!Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments
Mandolin, guitar, fiddle and bass.
Scotch & Chocolate - Nickel Creek
I didn't know you even listened to them lol!I love Nickle Creek and you beat me to them. Bad Purple!
I am an enigma wrapped in mystery.I didn't know you even listened to them lol!
Interviewer: I know your original work is just over three minutes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer have managed to turn it into a nine minute work.Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Fanfare for the common man