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  • Len Solomon has been making instruments out of random objects for over 30 years. He's performed as a one-man-band all over the world, and The Majestic Bellowphone is perhaps his DIY novelty masterpiece.
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  • @NoHomo1776
    @NoHomo1776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    God bless this man. He seems like he’s a kind and soft hearted man.

  • @SserenityLee
    @SserenityLee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    He is so creative. So amazing how he can make different notes on these.

  • @Jahu-qs2us
    @Jahu-qs2us 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Fun Fact: He makes music for every quirky, offbeat french movie

    • @jake4101
      @jake4101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm taking your word for it.

    • @colinu406
      @colinu406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes it does sound that way doesn't it.

  • @Sawlon
    @Sawlon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Love the laughing horn! I also noticed by his nails that he is a fingerstyle guitarist, long on one hand and short on the other.

    • @bellowphone
      @bellowphone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Good eye! Ha ha, you're right.

    • @Sawlon
      @Sawlon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the last few years my nails just split and crack. I even tried some salon ones. Guess I'm just drying out in my old age. Haha!

    • @bellowphone
      @bellowphone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Sawlon I cut a small patch of very fine silk cloth, hold it in place with a pin, and apply a drop of the super-thin type superglue. Then file everything smooth, then apply a topcoat of more superglue. It usually stays put long enough for the nail to grow out. You shouldn't keep doing it too much on the same nail; the glue eventually softens the nail and makes it more likely to break. Don't you hate it when people say, why not just use finger picks? Sure, why not wear gloves while you're at it?

    • @Sawlon
      @Sawlon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the info, Len!!!

  • @aleafox1675
    @aleafox1675 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    He had amazing parents. My parents did not encourage me toward my natural talents. I'm curious how many parents push their children towards their own dreams instead of their child's natural talents.

    • @danielbarbosa3
      @danielbarbosa3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or he forged forward despite the difficulties.

    • @orangejuice8339
      @orangejuice8339 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Barbosa exactly

    • @jonakoltaj9347
      @jonakoltaj9347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danielbarbosa3 He says in the video, that his dad has encouraged him to tinker with things since an early age, i think that's what they're referring to

  • @K_i_t_t_y84
    @K_i_t_t_y84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This man is so wholesome, I just love him so much. PLEASE do another show on him! PLEASE! ♥♥

  • @sl1msn1per
    @sl1msn1per 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    This guy is like a Willy Wonka character

  • @zayonkiber2510
    @zayonkiber2510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This guy is the experimental music king of 2020

  • @penguinexpress12
    @penguinexpress12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Everyone needs to go to his channel Bellowphone right now

  • @aliasfakename2267
    @aliasfakename2267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    He could score a Wes Anderson movie on the cheap

  • @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun
    @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I can't wait to play Megalovania on these instruments

  • @rialin
    @rialin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is like an episode of arthur except it’s his whole life and it’s beautiful

  • @quentinlynch
    @quentinlynch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a golden soul!

  • @karmellapascual7874
    @karmellapascual7874 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a talented and genius man. You can see his dedication and love for music. God bless and continue pursuing your passion.

  • @godwin1352
    @godwin1352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All of Dr Suess ideas in real life, amazing

  • @coffaene
    @coffaene 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This guy is just brilliant.

  • @TheFastgeek
    @TheFastgeek หลายเดือนก่อน

    The world needs more people like Len!

  • @danwalk5881
    @danwalk5881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This man is brilliant id love a you tube channel with him making an playing a different instrument each time.

    • @Riverbear2010
      @Riverbear2010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He has one, bellowphone

  • @danielbarbosa3
    @danielbarbosa3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome. I love you man. Also, several years until you got the pipe buttons done correctly? What amazing resilience to keep on experimenting.

    • @bellowphone
      @bellowphone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey, thanks, man. Yeah, persistence Я us!

  • @Mysterialic
    @Mysterialic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Imagine looking at the world in his own perspective.

  • @elddimvegetalien7374
    @elddimvegetalien7374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Len Soloman is so underrated

  • @OkoZungu
    @OkoZungu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bravo, maestro! You are an inspiration to many souls and have fun at the same time.

  • @itailu
    @itailu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    why would anyone dislike this vid. this guy is creative and amazing

  • @brunobar5218
    @brunobar5218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is such an amazing and underrated video! He is a good guy

  • @dtheengineer2746
    @dtheengineer2746 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This inspires me to get back into a project I've never finished that would be an all wooden fully functional music box with programmable pegs

  • @emilyjanice7029
    @emilyjanice7029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wooooow....its so interesting what people can do when they pursue their passions

  • @scarlettroger1508
    @scarlettroger1508 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This man is the epitome of fun. They broke the mould when they made him.

  • @juanmejias5618
    @juanmejias5618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kudos to Len

  • @blasalvice
    @blasalvice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Huge fan ! :D Such a great man

  • @oneeGrimm
    @oneeGrimm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That is beautiful.

  • @lolofysal
    @lolofysal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what a nice man .. I wish to him sweet life

  • @CheifR0cka
    @CheifR0cka 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Boy. This guy sure has life figured out.

  • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
    @TRHARTAmericanArtist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A wonderfully interesting and inspiring man.

  • @orangejuice8339
    @orangejuice8339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That’s it
    I’ll start serious music learning

  • @Charlie-xi1kq
    @Charlie-xi1kq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i love this guy

  • @resulavsar2606
    @resulavsar2606 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So anyone introduce him to the marble dude yet

  • @thedestructionator01
    @thedestructionator01 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone needs to hire him to make a videogame soundtrack

  • @eeclarkutube
    @eeclarkutube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic

  • @Appleloucious
    @Appleloucious ปีที่แล้ว

    One Love!
    Always forward, never ever backward!!
    ☀☀☀
    💚💛❤
    🙏🏿🙏🙏🏼

  • @heathercrider8841
    @heathercrider8841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Genius

  • @coolguyhino92
    @coolguyhino92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Make something that sound like the weird organ Grumpy plays in Snow White

  • @maxfelber444
    @maxfelber444 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a Legend !

  • @mikerotch124
    @mikerotch124 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Magnificent you are Leonard.

  • @jonnynerot6711
    @jonnynerot6711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sullivan and the Majestic Bellophone, live @ Burning Man 2020.

  • @straw5206
    @straw5206 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:47 what song is this

  • @krisfiskle
    @krisfiskle 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love you man!!!! Following for years

  • @RajDreamsOfficial
    @RajDreamsOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:40❤️

  • @BarbaraFischer4
    @BarbaraFischer4 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool!

  • @beatsbykana
    @beatsbykana 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I need to sample this guy haha

  • @HomeIdeasYT
    @HomeIdeasYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW, cool!

  • @ndidgenous
    @ndidgenous 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome 🙌👍

  • @asoggycracker8773
    @asoggycracker8773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn’t even know you made a video on him.

  • @MrX420x
    @MrX420x 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the man that writes Tom waits’ music.

  • @weebsgodtv2515
    @weebsgodtv2515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sounds like flp or abelton samples

  • @Bullminator
    @Bullminator 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That music style is very Neverhood.

  • @john.dough.
    @john.dough. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this man

  • @JohnSmith-gg9jm
    @JohnSmith-gg9jm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    dr suess would be proud

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    We can all appreciate his hobby and the unusual nature of many of the instruments he made. It’s just that many of them aren’t like real instruments but rather advanced noise making machines. It’s just sad that many of them are just “funny” instruments. I am VERY confident that for majority of his income he either does, or tried making standard but very high quality guitars and other instruments that require craft.

  • @spookymulder945
    @spookymulder945 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rock on, brother.

  • @CarsandCollectors
    @CarsandCollectors 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love this guy lol

  • @etanesnil7072
    @etanesnil7072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw this video and immediately thought of twoset

    • @Riverbear2010
      @Riverbear2010 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No offense but twoset aint got nothing on him

  • @aiyhavnouneim
    @aiyhavnouneim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    8:10 űeľğh

  • @axelmeysmans1530
    @axelmeysmans1530 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    He and Wintergatan should do a collab

  • @sebasmoralesvides
    @sebasmoralesvides ปีที่แล้ว

    I desire his knowledge of doohickeys, thingamabobs, and doodads

  • @ElectroIsMyReligion
    @ElectroIsMyReligion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool guy, but it must be a nightmare to be his neighbor

  • @nobiden3134
    @nobiden3134 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Solomon has had to move 19 times😆

    • @bellowphone
      @bellowphone ปีที่แล้ว

      So YOU were the guy that kept calling in the noise complaints!

    • @nobiden3134
      @nobiden3134 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bellowphone no.... just showed him my shotgun😉

  • @ChadEssley
    @ChadEssley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is a great video but I find it kind of disrespectful to the artist that the title doesn't use his actual name. He's just "this guy"... 🙄

    • @3pg4kd
      @3pg4kd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's just the theme. Check out the playlist for Wired Obsessed

  • @garyjones5272
    @garyjones5272 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So what, someone else invented the cammodiola!

  • @pspspspspspspspspspspspspspsps
    @pspspspspspspspspspspspspspsps 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So no one's gonna ignore how the narrator speaks?

  • @strikecaptain121
    @strikecaptain121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The real question is...
    can they play Megalovania.

  • @lebasson
    @lebasson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    COME ON WIRED, YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS. "This guy" has a name and it's Len Solomon. "This guy" is utterly dismissive of identity and achievement, as if you're anecdotally mentioning that one time someone surprisingly found themselves being a creator.

    • @john.dough.
      @john.dough. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "This guy" has better marketing appeal than the name of someone unknown, however important.

  • @DantheToonMan
    @DantheToonMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eat yer heart out, Spike Jones!

  • @WerewolfMaster
    @WerewolfMaster ปีที่แล้ว

    today's world doesn't appreciate such people
    The 84k views rn is a prove of it.

  • @antoniotides1866
    @antoniotides1866 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍

  • @pandatotoro
    @pandatotoro 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where's the fruit recorder guy? Pupsi?

  • @baljindersingh359
    @baljindersingh359 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's not weird.

  • @oldsmobile6
    @oldsmobile6 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙂🎵

  • @takenoshortcuts
    @takenoshortcuts ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another good story! Thank you. I WOULD SUBSCRIBE, BUT Wired is Anti Musk - which is really ironic, egotistical, and Anti-Wired
    I should also mention that Wired posted a huge anti-Sanderson piece that was also blatantly elitist, ironic, egotistical, and wrong

  • @ASilentS
    @ASilentS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was subscribed to him before the WIRED video. I'm cooler than you are...... or something.....

  • @liquidpig
    @liquidpig 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These sounds are what a clown looks like

  • @antoniogenise7223
    @antoniogenise7223 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trolls

  • @cuddlejuice
    @cuddlejuice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My girlfriend broke up with me cuz I told her I wanna start a kindergarten in her mouth

    • @chdcris
      @chdcris 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...

    • @oanaalexia
      @oanaalexia 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hmmm...

    • @kornaes
      @kornaes 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i wonder why...

    • @andromeda4995
      @andromeda4995 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Took 2 seconds to get

    • @cuddlejuice
      @cuddlejuice 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andromeda4995 I'll help u get it