If by "attacked" you mean rapine, then perhaps you are on to something. Generations of slutty ancient instruments have jumped over the wall to roam among the mongrels on the other side.
They were popular with "working-class" groups because they were relatively inexpensive compared with "classical" instruments, they were sturdy and the single metal reeds required little maintenance or adjusting, and they were easy to play, requiring simply blowing air into the mouthpiece (no need to learn embouchure or reed technique). As others have posted, it looks like old-time car horns, because yes, the company that made these (Martin Signal), made car horns first, and later started making versions that could be played as musical instruments.
not only car horns, but (before WW2) they were the sole manifacturer that was allowed to build the Sirens for firefighters, resulting in the "Martin-Horn" or "Martinshorn" being synonimus with a follow-up tone horn like the firefighters use. So they basically just made that thing for both car and human use.
These were also used in Communist and National Socialists parades prior to WW2, I've seen and heard them in propaganda videos and actually sounded great when playing with multiple others.
As a German trombone player who had the "pleasure" to hear those "Schalmeienorchester" before, I can confirm that these things do NOT sound better if more of them are played simultaneously. I friggin' loathe the abyssimal sound they create! btw: I wish you a speedy recovery, Trent! :)
I moved to Germany from the UK in 2010 and got talked into joining a Schalmei Music club. I had never learned an instrument before, not even the recorder in primary school. I couldn’t read notes and had absolutely no musical ability whatsoever. I thought this instrument was amusing and joined the group mainly to improve my German. 12 years later I am now the club president. I still don’t understand much about music (and therefore probably do not belong in this comment section), but I was able to play this instrument very quickly. It’s easy to learn - for the reasons everyone else has mentioned. It comes in Sopran, Tenor, Baritone and even an adapted version called Akkord which plays chords (several horns at once). The music we play is specially adapted to each ‘voice type’ and the challenge is not the playing itself necessarily but the playing together. Some songs sound pretty awful, but others sound much better. I can understand from a musical point of view this instrument seems probably quite awful and pointless, but due to its simplicity is very inclusive - making group music more accessible and sociable.
Guten Tag! Können Sie mir weitere Informationen über das Musikinstrument Shalmain erhalten? In Rußland, wo ich herkomme, gibt es fast keine Informationen darüber. 1. Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Martin-Signal und VOIGT Schalmeien? Was sind die besten in Bezug auf Qualität und auf seinen Klang? 2. Wahrscheinlich kennen Sie die Geschichte der Verwendung dieser Instrumente für politische Zwecke ganz gut. Wissen Sie, welche Arten von Schalmeinen in den 20er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in den Schalmeikapellen des Roten Frontkämpferbundes verwendet waren? Ich selbst habe nur herausgefunden, dass der Schalmei mit 16 Pfeifen nur in den 80er Jahren in der DDR erfunden wurde. Ich habe auch bereits eine ähnliche Frage an die Manager der oben-genannten Fabriken gestellt, aber sie haben mir nur ein Foto der Notenbuch geschickt (ich hänge das Foto unten an). 3. Wo kann ich Notenbücher von Märschen für Schalmeien bekommen? 4. Welche Organisationen spielen noch Klassenkampflieder aus den 20er Jahren? 5. Welche Schwierigkeiten bestehen bei der Aufrechterhaltung des technischen Zustands von Schalmeien? Müssen sie regelmäßig angepasst werden? Wenn ja, wie oft? Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Trumpet valves would descend in binary, except for some reason they decided to make the second valve half the size of the first one, rather than the other way around.
@@gabrielblacklock3921 I used to think that was weird, too, but then I realized that the trumpet valve orientation is for practicality of construction. Just look at how the valve tubing is laid out. The longer 2 U-bends extend front-to-back, and the shortest U-bend (2nd valve) is the one that sticks out to the side. If the shortest tubing were assigned to the 1st valve, then the 2nd valve would have longer tubing, and it would look ridiculous to have that much tubing sticking out sideways.
That's because that's pretty much what they are. This is exactly how car horns work, or at least how they did at one point when they used air to power everything.
They were first used as signal horns by police and military and many were made by the Martin Signal company in Germany. They later made an electrified version which became the familiar two-toned emergency vehicle air horn (Martinshorn) used in much of Europe. Martin Signal still makes several versions. Bands of these were particularly popular in East Germany, where this horn was likely made.
So Trent… I found videos online of this and an a entire band it sounds like a pipe organ when you have all the different sizes together. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Sounds quite nice actually.
Hi Trent. I love bizarre instruments. I think this definitely qualifies, though I don't think I'd want to spend a great deal of time listening to this. It's nice to see once, but I don't think I'll be clamoring to get one. I hope this means that you are recovering well and on your way to being fully mobile. I loved the story you told in your previous update about your daughter wanting to help her daddy. She's no doubt your pride and joy!
First, it is good to see you vertical. I hope you are feeling great. Second, this is hysterical (your commentary). Third, at least the valves double as the percussion section.
Binary scale counting from 0 to 7: 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111. Classic Trent: "this is the creation of a man with nothing to live for". I'm really glad to see you up and about. I hope the surgery was successful.
Looks like a tinkerer was around a church that replaced it's pipe organ. Looks like something I'd have made. I don't play very well but that assembly would have kept me entertained for a long time.
You probably don't believe it but you can tune that thing. Up by removing weight from the end and down by scratching at about a 1/4 from the beginning of the reed. This multi horn is a lot easier to learn to play than an instrument, the tones are already there only blow and remember the fingering.
I looked up some viseo's of modern german schalmei bands. Never knew this existed, I share you opinion on the instrument, but they seem to be having lots of fun. Specialy during the carnival. A loud rythmsection, lots of beer, and the schalmei group honking away. Real folkore it seems, but what a noise! Fun!
This looks like a metal version of the Chinese instrument known as the Sheng. The intonation is controlled by adding or removing mass from the reed - you can see the lump at the end of the reed in your video. If that channel is flat, scrape some of that crap off. It it's sharp, add some mass to it. With the Sheng, the traditional material used for this purpose is actually poisonous, but, it's dissolved in wax, so it's not completely fatal to use. You could substitute marzipan, spackle, wood filler...
This video is quite entertaining. One would find it even amusing. Besides the historical value, of course. I am actually a string contrabass player. I have been playing the cornet as a second instrument, But on this new journey, after about thirty years on the string bass, I want to acquire the whole tuba family going lower until the contrabass Bb tuba. On my quest, your videos suit me really well. You have an elegant sense of humour with a touch of sarcasm, which makes the content light to the ears of the audience, in my opinion. Thanks for helping me find my perfect instrument. And ruling out this one, I am afraid. Cheers!
Simply put, if it has reeds, its woodwind, not brass. I've heard the tale about German Fireman using it as an klaxon alarm, similar alarms, more like car klaxons with a single bell were used by American Firefighters, and seems likely other countries may have as well. They're extremely easy to play, with almost no embouchure required. There are obvious similarities with the Chinese Sheng family, although I'm not sure of any directly shared ancestry
If you are familiar with Chinese shengs, especially modern ones including the whole family, you would see a well developed sets of instruments with the same kind of mechanics (blowing in seperate reed bells)
"....you blow eeer in this eeend......" Here's a video of a full Schalmei band: th-cam.com/video/9YtQC8KHx4E/w-d-xo.html They were apparently popular in East Germany. Hearing the whole band, I can get one point - the ratty intonation gets leveled out by the many sort-of-unisons from massed instruments. And another point is that such a ensemble gets a brass band sound without the players having to develop and control their embochures - you just blow, and a sound comes out. For amateurs, that might be good.
So happy to see another video! Hope you are feeling better! That really is a contrivance.... But then again, in parts of the UK are full Kazoo marching bands. Look up UK federation of Jazz bands, they sound awesome!
I´m from Germany and I have to say, that we only play it while celebrating carneval. It has a funny sound and in a group it has a weird sound, but you will know the song
Oh wow, now I want one, despite there being no documentation on how to finger it that I could find. I don’t know if I would find it more fun to play over my Tenor Saxophone but it would certainly be a fun thing to own
This has got to be the most hilarious video I have seen of yours to date. I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard. You need to put warnings on your videos to help people with weak hearts and sphincters prepare for what is to come. Just a thought.
I actually began playing brass instruments with an Ophiclide that I bought for 40 dollars at a garage sale and had NO idea what it was... I am glad I learned on it and learned how to restore a very old brass instrument and now any modern brass instrument is a JOY to play for me, but you can get crazy awesome tones from the old horn if you overtone sing into it while playing (like too many zooz band) it's quite good for that and simple bass lines. I would love to take my Ophiclide to meow wolf crazy fun house in New Mexico and just walk around in steampunk clothing just making the weird sounds that can come out if it but I would take song requests if asked :).
Well, to give you a perfectly straight answer, I expect this instrument was made to be easy to play. With conventional brass instruments, you need to worry about embouchure; on this one you just blow. And it looks like this instrument wasn't made to take advantage of the overtone sequence either; you just play the root note of each reed. Both of these make the instrument easier to play. Of course, it's quite limited, with just eight notes. The tone color doesn't sound any worse to me than some of the brasher reed instruments, like the sax, say.
Why Schalmei (pron. "shall-my)? Imagine you are a volunteer fireman, or miner, or a member of a union or political party. The whole bunch enthusiastically wants to make a splash at an upcoming festival, march or demonstration, but everybody is short on time, cash and musical experience. Hey, let's do a Schalmei band! They are cheap, easy to play, impressive to look at -- particularly in a massed group, and after a couple of hours of rehearsal, and with distinctive shirts and caps as uniforms, you can cut a great figure marching hup and down the square. If some of the group fall victim to a mine cave-in,.or get their heads broken in a "discussion" with a rival political party -- no problem! It's easy to get somebody to sub, even on short notice: they are that rudimentary!. The Schallmei has a certain tradition in Germany, from the latter 19th century until the start of WWII. Less during the war, because it was mainly lefty groups that used them. (The Nazis preferred to hire a band, leaving their hands free for torches and truncheons.) They were still used in East Germany after the war, but their heyday was over.
Sounds like a cross between a kazoo and an automobile horn. What I want is the nickel silver Conn mellophonium behind you to the upper right. It's not a perfect instrument either but I know I can play it pretty well. I played a brass one in high school marching band.
Well, someone didn't take care of this particular instrument as it probably should be sent in for a refurb. From what I could tell, all but the second note seems to be in tune. If anything, it's like a small pipe organ with reed pipes. Also, I would think that you can play softer and louder notes by changing the volume of air going into it like a saxophone or clarinet as those are similar single reed instruments.
This instrument(correct name is Martin-trumped) was developed by the inventor of the german siren, that is used by fire brigade(Martinshorn/Pressluft). Here is a example for the siren: th-cam.com/video/AZE-bN3nc5w/w-d-xo.html If you look closly, you can see the bells of the siren between the blue lights. They also look kinda similar to this instrument.
Dare I say that it reminds me of reed stops on a pipe organ? It even looks a bit like organ pipes. I suspect a larger band - with versions of this instrument that are actually in tune! - would sound fairly decent.
This instrument sounds like what electric keyboards think a trumpet sounds like
You're right.
That's exactly what it sounds like.
This video was one of your best!
Fascinating weirdness.
It sounds like a very cheap synthesizer
Sounds like a toy
harmonica
Found a human voice setting on one the most horrific, echoey horror organ I’ve ever heard
It's like a bassoon got attacked by 8 oboes then got attacked by a unidentified brass instrument.
If by "attacked" you mean rapine, then perhaps you are on to something.
Generations of slutty ancient instruments have jumped over the wall to roam among the mongrels on the other side.
...and lost the battle!
Probably a saxhorn.
Please let me know if you'd be interested in me recording a series of soothing lullabies on this instrument.
Please!
I will make actual small children listen on repeat.
Ive never heard anything so lovely in my entire life. Im also a sousaphone player so my standards for sound sound quality are quite low...
Yes
Of course! Who wouldn't want that?
They were popular with "working-class" groups because they were relatively inexpensive compared with "classical" instruments, they were sturdy and the single metal reeds required little maintenance or adjusting, and they were easy to play, requiring simply blowing air into the mouthpiece (no need to learn embouchure or reed technique). As others have posted, it looks like old-time car horns, because yes, the company that made these (Martin Signal), made car horns first, and later started making versions that could be played as musical instruments.
Yes! The peoples horn!
not only car horns, but (before WW2) they were the sole manifacturer that was allowed to build the Sirens for firefighters, resulting in the "Martin-Horn" or "Martinshorn" being synonimus with a follow-up tone horn like the firefighters use. So they basically just made that thing for both car and human use.
These were also used in Communist and National Socialists parades prior to WW2, I've seen and heard them in propaganda videos and actually sounded great when playing with multiple others.
Cuts to James Morrison. "Ah it's just horns"
Is it weird that I watched that video right before this one
3:42 That pattern is basically equivalent to counting from 0 to 7 in binary.
correct
So that's why it sounds like an 8 bit computer
Holy crap, you’re right!
Precisely
@@michelthibodeau3474 actually a 3-bit computer
As a German trombone player who had the "pleasure" to hear those "Schalmeienorchester" before, I can confirm that these things do NOT sound better if more of them are played simultaneously. I friggin' loathe the abyssimal sound they create!
btw: I wish you a speedy recovery, Trent! :)
I moved to Germany from the UK in 2010 and got talked into joining a Schalmei Music club. I had never learned an instrument before, not even the recorder in primary school. I couldn’t read notes and had absolutely no musical ability whatsoever. I thought this instrument was amusing and joined the group mainly to improve my German. 12 years later I am now the club president. I still don’t understand much about music (and therefore probably do not belong in this comment section), but I was able to play this instrument very quickly. It’s easy to learn - for the reasons everyone else has mentioned. It comes in Sopran, Tenor, Baritone and even an adapted version called Akkord which plays chords (several horns at once). The music we play is specially adapted to each ‘voice type’ and the challenge is not the playing itself necessarily but the playing together. Some songs sound pretty awful, but others sound much better. I can understand from a musical point of view this instrument seems probably quite awful and pointless, but due to its simplicity is very inclusive - making group music more accessible and sociable.
Guten Tag!
Können Sie mir weitere Informationen über das Musikinstrument Shalmain erhalten? In Rußland, wo ich herkomme, gibt es fast keine Informationen darüber.
1. Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Martin-Signal und VOIGT Schalmeien? Was sind die besten in Bezug auf Qualität und auf seinen Klang?
2. Wahrscheinlich kennen Sie die Geschichte der Verwendung dieser Instrumente für politische Zwecke ganz gut. Wissen Sie, welche Arten von Schalmeinen in den 20er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in den Schalmeikapellen des Roten Frontkämpferbundes verwendet waren? Ich selbst habe nur herausgefunden, dass der Schalmei mit 16 Pfeifen nur in den 80er Jahren in der DDR erfunden wurde. Ich habe auch bereits eine ähnliche Frage an die Manager der oben-genannten Fabriken gestellt, aber sie haben mir nur ein Foto der Notenbuch geschickt (ich hänge das Foto unten an).
3. Wo kann ich Notenbücher von Märschen für Schalmeien bekommen?
4. Welche Organisationen spielen noch Klassenkampflieder aus den 20er Jahren?
5. Welche Schwierigkeiten bestehen bei der Aufrechterhaltung des technischen Zustands von Schalmeien? Müssen sie regelmäßig angepasst werden? Wenn ja, wie oft?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
The valves ascend in Binary, wtf.
Actually, that kinda makes sense.
Trumpet valves would descend in binary, except for some reason they decided to make the second valve half the size of the first one, rather than the other way around.
@@gabrielblacklock3921 I used to think that was weird, too, but then I realized that the trumpet valve orientation is for practicality of construction. Just look at how the valve tubing is laid out. The longer 2 U-bends extend front-to-back, and the shortest U-bend (2nd valve) is the one that sticks out to the side. If the shortest tubing were assigned to the 1st valve, then the 2nd valve would have longer tubing, and it would look ridiculous to have that much tubing sticking out sideways.
@@organist1982 Yeah true. That occurred to me right after I commented XD
It also conveniently makes a lot of fingerings similar to the right hand on woodwind instruments.
"plays in the Key of Yuck" made me laugh so hard! Thanks!
Glad to see you back from the hospital! Keep that recovery up man!
Notes on this thing sounds like different pitched car horns. 😂🚗
or of those air horns that plays the Dukes of Hazard General Lee theme.
At first I thought it was going to be some kind of orchestral train horn . . . .
Mixed with out of tune car horns
That's because that's pretty much what they are. This is exactly how car horns work, or at least how they did at one point when they used air to power everything.
@@mal2ksc Truck and train horns yes, car horns usually no, even in the old days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_horn
"...vibrates against a shallot.."
Me: it vibrates against an onion?
Assuming it doesn't have a leek?
Sounds like a non realistic midi instrument like a midi instrument version of a reed organ, bassoon, bandoneon etc...
That would mean that we have an accurate midi equivalent of this instrument
I never would've guessed that someone once sold an analogue otamatone.
They were first used as signal horns by police and military and many were made by the Martin Signal company in Germany. They later made an electrified version which became the familiar two-toned emergency vehicle air horn (Martinshorn) used in much of Europe. Martin Signal still makes several versions. Bands of these were particularly popular in East Germany, where this horn was likely made.
Super interesting
So Trent… I found videos online of this and an a entire band it sounds like a pipe organ when you have all the different sizes together. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Sounds quite nice actually.
Link? I'd love to hear that
That's the most unholy abomination I've seen in a very long time.
As your profile pic is a Bass Clarinet
@@Chatroom64 Bass clarinets are objectively beautiful. Curves don't lie
Unholy abomination?!! Why?!!
Its a nice music instrument with a good sound.
@@grima5788 I was just joking, Bass Clarinets are fine
I play Bass Clarinet and flute, I literally play the best instruments
The perfect video to watch while slighty tipsy. I have the giggles and I WANT ONE OF THESE!
It looks like a dr suess instrument
Finally, I can say I've seen an instrument that accurately describes when Squidward plays.
That beard is getting agressively big...
It is beautiful.
Is there a problem with that?
This ... basically sounds like an oboe, but which was made out of metal (and is a bit more in tune of course)
You are obviously tone deaf. :)
It looks like a Sheng (Chinese muliphonic wind instrument) yet sounds like your worst nightmare.
Hi Trent. I love bizarre instruments. I think this definitely qualifies, though I don't think I'd want to spend a great deal of time listening to this. It's nice to see once, but I don't think I'll be clamoring to get one. I hope this means that you are recovering well and on your way to being fully mobile. I loved the story you told in your previous update about your daughter wanting to help her daddy. She's no doubt your pride and joy!
Oh come on, you can't say it doesn't look cool to play!
First, it is good to see you vertical. I hope you are feeling great. Second, this is hysterical (your commentary). Third, at least the valves double as the percussion section.
HAAAAAAA!!!!
What you got there is 8 party horns on a stick.
😜😜😜✌🏼👍🏼
That is the perfect description.
IKR! I expected rolled up paper streamers to come out the ends!
Glad you are looking like you feel much better. Thanks for the wonderful videos that never take themselves to seriously.
It sounds like an Animal Crossing character
...."it will give you syphilis" HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA OMG you got me crying! I am freaking dead! HAHAHA
Glad to see that surgery hasn't dampened your sense of humour, Trent. Good to see you looking much better!
And it came out of a Dr. SEUSS book.
Binary scale counting from 0 to 7: 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111. Classic Trent: "this is the creation of a man with nothing to live for". I'm really glad to see you up and about. I hope the surgery was successful.
"this is the creation of a man with nothing to live for"
Ah, the early 1900s version of Facebook subscribers.
Looks like a tinkerer was around a church that replaced it's pipe organ. Looks like something I'd have made. I don't play very well but that assembly would have kept me entertained for a long time.
You probably don't believe it but you can tune that thing. Up by removing weight from the end and down by scratching at about a 1/4 from the beginning of the reed. This multi horn is a lot easier to learn to play than an instrument, the tones are already there only blow and remember the fingering.
I looked up some viseo's of modern german schalmei bands. Never knew this existed, I share you opinion on the instrument, but they seem to be having lots of fun. Specialy during the carnival. A loud rythmsection, lots of beer, and the schalmei group honking away. Real folkore it seems, but what a noise! Fun!
This looks like a metal version of the Chinese instrument known as the Sheng. The intonation is controlled by adding or removing mass from the reed - you can see the lump at the end of the reed in your video. If that channel is flat, scrape some of that crap off. It it's sharp, add some mass to it. With the Sheng, the traditional material used for this purpose is actually poisonous, but, it's dissolved in wax, so it's not completely fatal to use. You could substitute marzipan, spackle, wood filler...
This video is quite entertaining. One would find it even amusing. Besides the historical value, of course.
I am actually a string contrabass player. I have been playing the cornet as a second instrument, But on this new journey, after about thirty years on the string bass, I want to acquire the whole tuba family going lower until the contrabass Bb tuba. On my quest, your videos suit me really well. You have an elegant sense of humour with a touch of sarcasm, which makes the content light to the ears of the audience, in my opinion.
Thanks for helping me find my perfect instrument. And ruling out this one, I am afraid.
Cheers!
well it’s 12:34am rn in the Midwest. What a perfect time to watch a video
For me it's 1:04
@@PeterGriffin-kb2hf for me its 2:05
Hey glad to see you back! Best wishes on your recovery!
Hi Trent
Thank you for this great video.
Glad to see your better.
Simply put, if it has reeds, its woodwind, not brass. I've heard the tale about German Fireman using it as an klaxon alarm, similar alarms, more like car klaxons with a single bell were used by American Firefighters, and seems likely other countries may have as well. They're extremely easy to play, with almost no embouchure required.
There are obvious similarities with the Chinese Sheng family, although I'm not sure of any directly shared ancestry
Trent Hamilton 4:04 Plays C major scale.
If you are familiar with Chinese shengs, especially modern ones including the whole family, you would see a well developed sets
of instruments with the same kind of mechanics (blowing in seperate reed bells)
I'm guessing that a German or Polish missionary brought a Sheng back from China and got someone to copy it.
Good to see you back! Hope recovery is going well.
Great to see you back
Great to see you back!
Nice to see you back man
Straight back to the schedule Trent? Well done, inspiring.
I absolutely died when I heard the sound that thing made 😂
Where did you buy this?? I've been looking for one
Ebay
thank you, it is my birthday!
That intro is beautiful
The most perfect instrument ever created is a Sax-A-Boom. Fits all of the criteria provided.
It looks like the taxi horns that you use in "American in Paris" only all tied-together and played with a mouthpiece instead of bulbs.
"....you blow eeer in this eeend......"
Here's a video of a full Schalmei band: th-cam.com/video/9YtQC8KHx4E/w-d-xo.html They were apparently popular in East Germany. Hearing the whole band, I can get one point - the ratty intonation gets leveled out by the many sort-of-unisons from massed instruments. And another point is that such a ensemble gets a brass band sound without the players having to develop and control their embochures - you just blow, and a sound comes out. For amateurs, that might be good.
Good to see you up and about
So happy to see another video! Hope you are feeling better! That really is a contrivance.... But then again, in parts of the UK are full Kazoo marching bands. Look up UK federation of Jazz bands, they sound awesome!
No views, four likes
Congratulations TH-cam! Impeccable accuracy!
After watching other videos of some Schalmei bands, I think this may be, if not the most perfect instrument, the happiest one!
I´m from Germany and I have to say, that we only play it while celebrating carneval. It has a funny sound and in a group it has a weird sound, but you will know the song
It's like... digital-acoustic!
....Thanks for beautiful smile at the end!
I have a classical organ with a Schalmei rank on the pedals so I stopped by to see what the heck a Schalmei happens to be.
Oh wow, now I want one, despite there being no documentation on how to finger it that I could find. I don’t know if I would find it more fun to play over my Tenor Saxophone but it would certainly be a fun thing to own
This has got to be the most hilarious video I have seen of yours to date. I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard. You need to put warnings on your videos to help people with weak hearts and sphincters prepare for what is to come. Just a thought.
I loved it when u said that this is the creation of a man who has nothing to live for
What do you call a loud pet?
A... Trum-pet
“Don’t want to catch a case of death” haha this dude slays me I love it
I actually began playing brass instruments with an Ophiclide that I bought for 40 dollars at a garage sale and had NO idea what it was... I am glad I learned on it and learned how to restore a very old brass instrument and now any modern brass instrument is a JOY to play for me, but you can get crazy awesome tones from the old horn if you overtone sing into it while playing (like too many zooz band) it's quite good for that and simple bass lines. I would love to take my Ophiclide to meow wolf crazy fun house in New Mexico and just walk around in steampunk clothing just making the weird sounds that can come out if it but I would take song requests if asked :).
Well, to give you a perfectly straight answer, I expect this instrument was made to be easy to play. With conventional brass instruments, you need to worry about embouchure; on this one you just blow. And it looks like this instrument wasn't made to take advantage of the overtone sequence either; you just play the root note of each reed. Both of these make the instrument easier to play.
Of course, it's quite limited, with just eight notes.
The tone color doesn't sound any worse to me than some of the brasher reed instruments, like the sax, say.
Why Schalmei (pron. "shall-my)? Imagine you are a volunteer fireman, or miner, or a member of a union or political party. The whole bunch enthusiastically wants to make a splash at an upcoming festival, march or demonstration, but everybody is short on time, cash and musical experience. Hey, let's do a Schalmei band! They are cheap, easy to play, impressive to look at -- particularly in a massed group, and after a couple of hours of rehearsal, and with distinctive shirts and caps as uniforms, you can cut a great figure marching hup and down the square. If some of the group fall victim to a mine cave-in,.or get their heads broken in a "discussion" with a rival political party -- no problem! It's easy to get somebody to sub, even on short notice: they are that rudimentary!. The Schallmei has a certain tradition in Germany, from the latter 19th century until the start of WWII. Less during the war, because it was mainly lefty groups that used them. (The Nazis preferred to hire a band, leaving their hands free for torches and truncheons.) They were still used in East Germany after the war, but their heyday was over.
Hmm. I think I'll stick to the trombone. But thank you for playing Happy Birthday to my daughter today. PS ,Good to see you back on the youtubes.
Happy birthday to your daughter!
@@cetologist Good job my birthday was 2 days ago.
Sounds like a cross between a kazoo and an automobile horn.
What I want is the nickel silver Conn mellophonium behind you to the upper right.
It's not a perfect instrument either but I know I can play it pretty well.
I played a brass one in high school marching band.
This is basically a pipe organ chamade stop in handheld form.
Welcome back!
All I want now is an in-depth review and demonstration through all registers of the vuvuzela
"That will give you Bronchitis, Syphilis, just by looking at it"
XDDDDDDDD
James morrison " ah it's just horns"
Also we officially have gotten clickbaited
this sounds exactly like the first kids’ piano I ever smashed my fingers onto...
Looks like a flower bouquet display at a flower shop.
God damn, you’re really going off on this thing.
Well, someone didn't take care of this particular instrument as it probably should be sent in for a refurb. From what I could tell, all but the second note seems to be in tune. If anything, it's like a small pipe organ with reed pipes. Also, I would think that you can play softer and louder notes by changing the volume of air going into it like a saxophone or clarinet as those are similar single reed instruments.
OH I TRIED ONE OF THESE ONCE (it was bell-front, so physically felt a bit more like a regular trumpet; still the fingering was too damn weird)
that sad face when you play it is basically your ears telling your mouth to stop playing.
This instrument(correct name is Martin-trumped) was developed by the inventor of the german siren, that is used by fire brigade(Martinshorn/Pressluft).
Here is a example for the siren: th-cam.com/video/AZE-bN3nc5w/w-d-xo.html
If you look closly, you can see the bells of the siren between the blue lights. They also look kinda similar to this instrument.
It sounds like an out of tune oboe lol
@Wouter Timmermans 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
that thing is just teerable. love it
WOW IT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
I've been playing on these in an orchestra for like 8 years.
I would like to hear Con Te Partirò played on that magnificent beast.
It sounds like a sax player who just learned playing literally their first day
All of the adjectives that Trent is describing perfectly sums up the saxophone… except for, well, staying in tune :)
I was going to say the Chapman stick or the electric bass.
They make ones of these that actually are played like a brass insturment that have a mouthpiece like a trumpet
Dare I say that it reminds me of reed stops on a pipe organ? It even looks a bit like organ pipes. I suspect a larger band - with versions of this instrument that are actually in tune! - would sound fairly decent.
00:00 the mosquito in my ear at 3 am playing a concerto
A trumpet, a saxophone, and a drunk got together one night and had the "great idea."
Cool post, Trent. Thanks.
Originating from the railways where it was used as a signalling instrument in the fields
Nice instrument. Sounds good, and by an expert sounds very good!
Good video.