🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[UnquietDreams]

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

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.

 

[vagrantx]

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.

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...

Musically it's so damn pleasing

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Guitar, drums, cello. And they rock it.

"Mary," The Happy Fits

 

[Apisto42]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

 

[curious_slut]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

I'll say it, the violin family is the sexiest. Such a tough choice. The strings at about 5 minutes in send me, they're simply gorgeous.

Andrew Bird - Bloodless

 

[Wonderer67]

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

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Guitar, drums, cello. And they rock it.

"Mary," The Happy Fits

I have not heard this band before. Thank you for making the introduction.

I like!

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls​

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

A heart breaker song, and Lady's choice
I Was Such a Fool, by the Flamingos

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Mandolin, guitar, fiddle and bass.

Scotch & Chocolate - Nickel Creek

I love Nickle Creek and you beat me to them. Bad Purple!

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

 

[lavendersilk]

I love Nickle Creek and you beat me to them. Bad Purple!

I didn't know you even listened to them lol!

 

[UnquietDreams]

I didn't know you even listened to them lol!

I am an enigma wrapped in mystery.

 

[The_Quiet_Man]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

 

[KarenB59]

Day 7- A song that features one or more string instruments.
I'm taking the prompt pretty literally this time. I actually found this song by accident and loved it Featuring a one string guitar.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Only a true genius like Brian Wilson could begin one of the greatest love songs ever written with the lyric,
"I may not always love you."

 

[lingus60]

Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Fanfare for the common man

 

[summer_reine]

Day 7: a song featuring one or more string instruments
Manifest - Grayson Earhard
The first song I ever heard a guitar played as a string and percussive instrument

 

[TXRafe]

Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

Nightwish -Sleeping Sun (Live)

 

[37_ttej]

Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

One 80’s ear worm coming up …

Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer

 

[37_ttej]

Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Fanfare for the common man

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.

Copland: (Laughs) Exactly, well, it's those six minutes in the middle...(laughs)

Truth!

 

[Grant55]

Day 8: Rhapsody in Blue

For it's 100th year. One of my favorites.

 

[orangecurious]

Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

Guillemots - We're Here
the first band to come to mind when talking about keyboards, just trying to choose one song! Unfairly lumped in with another UK keyboard based band who were slightly anodyne, the 'Mots were more than a keys band, using typewriters, theremin, double bass and anything that could make a noise to make a glorious sound.