

- #Large string instrument played with fingers full#
- #Large string instrument played with fingers portable#
algozey - The algozey is a wooden, beaked double-flute traditionally played by goat herders in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.alfaia - The alfaia is a Brazilian cylindrical drum.

akete - The akete are drums commonly used in Nyabinghi music.

ajaeng - The ajaeng is a bowed Korean zither with 7 (sometimes 8 or 9) strings.agogô - The agogô is a single or multiple bell used in samba music with origins in traditional Yoruba music.afoxé - The afoxé is a Brazilian instrument typically consisting of a gourd wrapped in a beaded net.acoustic fretless guitar - Acoustic guitar without frets.accordion - The accordion is a rectangular free-reed bellows-driven instrument with a keyboard & buttons.accordina (a type of harmonica/accordion hybrid) - Harmonica/Accordion hybrid where the bellows for the accordion bit with buttons/keys receive air though the user blowing into the instrument like an harmonica.17-string koto - A koto with 17 rather than 13 strings, sometimes described as a bass koto."Long-String Instrument Technical Requirements". Ellen Fullman's Long-String Instrument Photographs from the Flanders Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2003.^ "Yuri Landman - Long string demonstration 2"."Yuri Landman Ensemble - That's Right, Go Cats". ^ Paul Panhuysen, Maja Ratkje, Han Bennink & Co.^ Drawing the Line, article on Jon Rose's CD The Fence,.^ Album notes for Music on a Long Thin Wire, Lovely Music/.^ Ellen Fullman Biography Archived at the Wayback Machine,.Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, p. Sound lab and research centre Sonoscopia in Porto, Portugal has a permanent electric amplified long-string instrument mounted to the wall in the hall of their building. A three-minute solo that he recorded in a garden on this instrument can be heard on YouTube, uploaded in 2011.
#Large string instrument played with fingers portable#
The experimental luthier and recording artist Yuri Landman built a portable electric long-string instrument. George Smits built long string instruments acoustically amplified with styrofoam. Throughout his career Paul Panhuysen made many large sound installations with groups of long strings. Since 1983, in addition to his work on and about the violin, Jon Rose has been bowing and recording the music of fences worldwide. In 1981 Terry Fox also recorded two musical pieces called Berlin Attic Wire, Beating with a long string instrument. Alvin Lucier employed a monochord of up to 25 meters in his piece Music on a Long Thin Wire (1977).

#Large string instrument played with fingers full#
The strings of the bass octave extend the instrument's full 90 feet.įullman is not the only person who has built long-string instruments. This long-string instrument's range is centered on the octave of middle C and extends above and below this by an octave. A C-clamp is used on each string for putting tension on the strings, much like a guitar capo, and a resonator is placed on the end the musician faces. It is tuned in just intonation and played by walking along the length of its approximately 100 90-foot (27 m)-long strings and rubbing them with rosined hands and producing longitudinal vibrations. One example of a long-string instrument was invented by the American composer Ellen Fullman. For example if a string 0.33 meters long, of given mass and tension, produces A440, a string with identical mass and tension but eight times as long, 2.64 meters, produces 55 hertz. The sound is also similar to that occurring in upper electricity cables for trains.Ī long string instrument was one of the techniques by which Mersenne tested Galileo's hypothesis, now known under Mersenne's name, by making string vibration speed visible and countable. The attack tone shoots through the string in a longitudinal wave and generates the typical science-fiction laser-gun sound as heard in Star Wars. Since the length is that long, this has an effect on the attack tone. Besides the beating frequency, the string also gives higher pitched natural overtones. If the tension and the length result in sounds with such a frequency, the tone becomes a beating frequency that ranges from a short reverb (approx 5–10 meters) to longer echo sounds (longer than 10 meters). The long-string instrument is a musical instrument in which the string is of such a length that the fundamental transverse wave is below what a person can hear as a tone (☒0 Hz). 33 meters and a long string instrument string of 10 meters. Experimental musical instrument Stick figure of 1.75 meters standing next to a violin string of.
