"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it…" (Shakespeare - Twelfth Night)
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The sheer romance of standing beneath the boudoir window of your beloved and reciting your melancholy airs, whether clad in tunic and tights or not, has been known to turn even the coldest heart into the most ardent groupie ready to give you her all!
But, I hear you say, isn’t that just a bit old fashioned and really corny, even laughable in these modern times? A valid point, so what I’ve come up with is a list of several innovative ways to attract your heart’s desire, through the power of music – cutting edge, original techniques, to really get you noticed and become the new Modern Romeo.
So let’s go! Here are the first 9 musical instruments, mastery of any of which is bound to win over the heart of your beloved:
Aeolian Wind Harp
The Aeolian harp originated in ancient Greece and was very popular throughout the Renaissance. In its traditional form, the instrument was designed to be played by the wind alone, without human action. The harp essentially comprises a wooden box with strings stretched between two bridges. If placed in a slightly open window where the wind can blow across the strings, it will produce random sounds, depending on the strength of the wind, ranging from a barely audible deep hum to a loud soprano scream.
Interestingly, the effect can sometimes be both heard and seen in overhead utility lines. It also makes an often dramatic appearance in non-telescopic automobile antennae. You might also recall that in Nabokov’s Lolita, the narrator’s father married an English girl who’s grandmother was an aficionado of the Aeolian harp.
Beer Bottle Organ
The perfect foil to a hard night out on the town, the concept of a bottle organ dates back to the early 19th century. The organ sound is actually produced by blowing air over the tops of beer bottles housed in a wooden cabinet. The instrument, as developed by Peterson Tuners, includes an air pump and a self-playing device. It can also be made coin-operated. The beer bottles are filled or "tuned" using mineral oil, so it will not evaporate or change tuning due to climatic changes. |
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Double Violin
The violin is one of the most traditional romantic instruments: from Paganini to Nigel Kennedy, hearts have been won across the globe as romantic airs waft through starlit skies. But why stop at a single instrument? Be sure to kill off all competition with a double violin!Jon Rose developed his 10-string double violin as part of an ongoing project lasting over 25 years, creating a total art-form around the violin. Central to the project is innovation in violin design, with over 20 deconstructed instruments in the series of Relative Violins. The double violin is essentially two violins that share the same fingerboard. Jon Rose performs his group projects and solo music in over 50 concerts every year around the world.
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Glass Armonica
An instrument with a playing technique to should strike an immediate chord with the romantically inclined. And if you’re not romantically inclined, then why on earth are you reading this?The glass armonica was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin. It is played in the same way as rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wineglass, producing a musical note. The glass bowls are individually tuned, so that they do not need to be filled with water. The bowls are tuned by size, mounted one inside the other with cork on a metal spindle. The glasses are made to spin with a flywheel attached to a foot pedal. Ben Franklin himself declared "Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction".
Whilst initially very popular (Mozart himself composing works for it), its popularity did not last far beyond the 18th century. This might even have been due to strange rumors that using the instrument caused both musicians and listeners to go insane. A German musicologist, one Friedrich Rochlitz, even went so far as to declare "the armonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood that is apt method for slow self-annihilation. If you are suffering from any nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it."
LightHarp
The LightHarp uses lasers, spotlights and light sensors to trace virtual strings through space for performers to play. I believe something similar was used by Mr Spok to charm the heart of many an interstellar traveller. The instrument does not make sound itself but rather it controls computers and synthesizers. It was originally built in fiberglass violin maker David Brown in collaboration with Stuart Favilla and Robin Whittle.The current version of the LightHarp has been designed in leather by the famous Tasmanian leather artist, Garry Greenwood. The LightHarp is also the World's first Indian computer music instrument and resembles a veena in shape and design. It has a total of 32 light-sensor virtual strings, each playing separate notes, samples or act as frets on a single string. But although designed for playing Indian music, it is also capable of performing dense synthesised textures with experimental micro-tonal tunings.
The control panels consist of many simultaneous channels of scanning analogue to digital controls capable of hundreds of MIDI controller assignments. The main controllers include breath, pitch and modulation, pressure sensitive and position-sensitive touch strips, foot-control pedals, two large dial controllers and an active electromagnetic proximity controller wand. The instrument is usually played with 5 independent degrees of freedom.
Nano Guitar
Now here’s an instrument guaranteed to please the scientific-orientated lady, and it comes in one convenient pocket-sized package. Keep one by you at all times. You never know when it might come in handy!The smallest guitar in the world is only 10 micro-meters long - about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. The first original nano guitar was made to resemble a Fender Stratocaster. The new, "playable" version, actually about five times the size of the original, is modelled on the Gibson Flying V. Both were made by electron beam lithography at the Cornell Nanoscale Facility.
The strings are in reality silicon bars, 150 by 200 nanometers in cross-section and ranging from 6 to 12 micrometers in length (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter, the length of three silicon atoms in a row. For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is about 200 micrometers, or 200,000 nanometers). The strings vibrate at frequencies 17 octaves higher than those of a real guitar, or about 130,000 times higher.
Serpent
An instrument with overt sexual "overtones" and in the right hands a lethal weapon in your armoury to seduce your beloved. Just don’t overdo it, the effects can be earth-shattering!The Serpent is an ancient musical wind instrument invented by one Canon Edmé Guillaume in 1590 in Auxerre, France, and was first used to strengthen the sound of church choirs. It is related to the modern Tuba. It was made from wood, often walnut, and blown with a cup shaped mouthpiece. Played softly, it has a firm mellow tone. At medium volume, it produces a robust sound – something of a cross between the tuba, bassoon and French horn. But when played loudly, the serpent can produce seriously unpleasant noises reminiscent of large animals mating or in distress.
The celebrated film composer Bernard Herman used a serpent in the score of his 1959Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Theremin
Now we come to my favorite instrument, and one of the most versatile. But as with all musical instruments worthy of the name, please think of the neighbours and try to perfect your technique before rushing out to try this. Police cells and hospitals have been known to become overcrowded with failed Theremin players.The Theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments, the forerunner of the electronic synthesizer created by Robert Moog in the 1960s. However it is unique in that it is played without ever physically touching it. Invented by the Russian inventor Lev Termin (Leon Theremin in the anglicized version of his name) in the 1920s, the instrument is outfitted with two antennae and when the hands of the player enter the electrostatic field around each antenna, changes in pitch and volume occur. The left antenna (horizontal) controls the volume, and the right antenna (vertical) controls the pitch.
Zither
A stringed instrument found mainly in the Alpine areas of Central Europe. The strings are stretched across the length of a flat soundbox and plucked. The zither is perhaps most famous for its role in the soundrack of the classic 1949 film adaptation of “The Third Man” starring Orson Welles. Anton Karas, who recorded the famous music, was discovered by producer Carol Reed in a Vienna café, and quickly launched a career of international celebrity. |
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An instrument of simple construction, requiring great digital dexterity in playing. In playing the melody, the strings are played like a steel guitar, pressed down against a fret-board by the left fingers and plucked by the right thumb. For the harmony, it is played like a harp, the strings being plucked with the right fingers to produce chords. Zither players almost seem to have three hands, since the right thumb must work with the left fingers, independently of what the right fingers are doing.
