Unusual styles of music / instruments / playing styles

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PVC tubes arranged as an instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKN3PJ0KJ2o

Unusual in size: the Carillon consists of 48 bells and weighs 13 tons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhbu0n361O4

The Bazantar, a double bass with 5 bowed, 29 sympathetic and 4 drone strings invented by Mark Deutsch. Inspired by the sitar (as the name implies). This thing has a magnificent sound.
http://vimeo.com/11290879
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9id8D9oL6wo

Here's a pretty comprehensive gallery of odd musical instruments.
http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/

 

[El Perro Mayor]

Les Claypool, whamola and a bassjo.

 

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About time to post something interesting here again.

Hammered dulcimer is an instrument of the zither family and has a nice sound to it. The woman playing it here is pretty nice too.. :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjpYHhfRyI

Dulcimer is just one of the unusual things that the band "Dead Can Dance" has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itwL5y0He-k

This is really a good example of using every part of an instrument to its fullest: 5 guys 1 piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VqTwnAuHws

Multi-instrumentalist Michel Lauzière. Don't know what to say really! This is both hilarious and awesome at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAnK5lFy9tE

Tesla coils playing the Super Mario theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O2jcfOylU

I don't know about the actual musicality of the Tesla coils since they don't really fit in very well to be used with other instruments due to the sound probably being considered as just a loud, ugly, aggressive buzzing noise that easily drowns out anything else that is playing along, but I think those are pretty cool regardless.

 

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[TheSpokenWheel]

Saw this guy live one time. He built his own "Syntax Drumitar" and plays it at the same time as a conventional drum kit and other percussion doo-dads. He starts going pretty nuts at about the 4:00 mark.

 

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About time to post something in this thread again.

Metallica - Master of Puppets (Hurdy Gurdy Orchestral Epic Cover) by Michalina Malisz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFTwwpiQ-0

Yaybahar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sT0Z4ief4

Cave organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU7qsaVfn-8

 

[tvstrip]

It's a crime that this thread has been going on for over a decade without a mention of the Blue Man Group

 

[DrakeM]

The Hu - think Ghengis Khan playing hard rock with throat singing. I absolutely love their stuff.

 

[John_8581]

Here at 2:54, is Ahmed Al Harmi playing an oud (Arabian lute instrument from the Middle Ages. If you bend the strings just right, it can sound like you are playing a mandolin.)

Robbie Robertson's The Weight ...

I sure miss Rick and Levon, Rich and now Robbie. Garth is the only one alive now.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Chris Squire, the late bass player from Yes, used to hold his pick backwards, and close to the end, so his thumb was near the edge. Then when he played, the pick would hit first, giving the brighter sound, immediately followed by his thumb hitting the same string, filling out the note. He also had his main bass, and old Rickenbacker, specially wired, so in the studio, he would run the bridge, or treble pick up, to a guitar amp, and the neck, or bass pick up, to a bass amp, giving the illusion that the Rickenbacker had a big "treble punch", when in actuality, they do have a lot of bottom end. In concert he always used an old Marshall 100 watt guitar head, sent to bass cabinets.