WA PingThere's a uniqueness to it all, I suppose. But I don't find it entertaining. --that's just me.
BTW- Space needle?
Posted on 03/06/2014 3:29:21 PM PST by smaug314
Why don't music innovators win competitions like America's Got Talent? Or is this guy too Vegas-y?
Coming from a string instrument background, I am baffled by the idea of tuning each of the strings.
Considering they are vibrating at about 2 hz I’d like to know who he is playing for. Elephants?
Largest stringed instrument or largest slicer for the largest block of cheese.
Hmmm...EARTH harp...Don’t tell me: “The earth must be protected because it makes such beautiful music therefore carbon credits must be purchased from Al Gore”
WA PingThere's a uniqueness to it all, I suppose. But I don't find it entertaining. --that's just me.
BTW- Space needle?
Say you know, I think this is a hoax. Look at the bottom, the writers bio:
SOPHIA BOETTCHER
Sophia is a 23-year-old dyslexic programmer, writer and wino in Silicon Valley. Her alma mater is Santa Clara University, where she double majored in Computer Science and German Studies. In the morning, Sophia likes to improvise on her fiancee’s Yamaha baby grand and annoy the neighbors. She has played violin, viola and mandolin for eight years, and has performed with the SCU Concert Choir and Orchestra. One of her dreams is to open an organic, gluten-free restaurant on a hillside in New Zealand and work as the chef-proprietor there.
I was really hoping he would have invented a Gojira-sized theremin.
If he hits the Schumann Resonance frequency, 7.83 Hz, then he’ll be playing to the Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances
Or perhaps a far more destructive resonance...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
I smell the Earth...
OMG! I think if she dumps the guy for gal and starts adopting black babies from Africa she has a shot at being the world's greatest lib.
Well, “music soothes the savage beast”...
And he figured with the Fukushima fallout Godzilla would be along too. And when he climbed the Needle and found the harp he’d start playing it and get all in touch with his felings and mellow instead of grabbing women and knocking stuff down.
What’s a Zither?
A zither is a string instrument that’s played horizontally/face-up I think.
Has anyone figured out how one would theoretically tune it? I imagine it would be dangerous (slice cheese, blocks of ice) to tune the strings tight enough to produce a human-audible sound.
My friend said she saw this guy on a TV show, but there’s plenty of backup from other instrumentals in the video I saw. Maybe he’s doing the string version of lip-syncing?
Interesting. Here’s another strange resonance that he might be able to achieve, but it varies based on the instrument:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_tone
I wonder if we are just hearing the overtones and not the main tone of the string?
Beat me to it! Say “zither” and we think Third Man Theme. The movie was the darkest of 1940’s film noire, IMO.
Is this thing on the Space Needle like a giant wind harp with the strings resonating in the breeze?
There’s another strange resonance I heard the other day on the radio. Massively painful to listen to. Literally hurt my ears and left me in a stare of mental confusion.I looked it up and apparently it’s called “Country Music” or something like that. God I have never heard anything so awful!
(ducks and runs ;)
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