The Sympathetic Drone Cello
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2015
- Introducing a new and unusual hybrid cello: The Sympathetic Drone Cello. Envisioned by Nathan Barr and built and engineered by Fred Carlson and Suzy Norris, the instrument features 10 sympathetic strings and an automatic drone generated by a hurdy gurdy-style wheel.
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0:55 Wow
They really strapped a citar and hurdy gurdy to a cello.
Plays like a cello,
Looks like a viola da gamba,
Sounds like a hudry-gurdy,
Resonates Like a sitar.
The top 5 Strings are tuned like a 5 String Violin down an Octave so you can play anything, quite a cool tool.
Those f-holes are beautiful. And the instrument sounds beautiful, too.
PLEASE put up a video of a full song done with this instrument! I want to listen to this all the time!
3:00 the best part about fretless instruments is their ability to easily adapt their intonation like the way you played that seventh harmonic beautifully in-tune at 3:01 whereas any fixed pitch instrument would've been off by 30 cents because of temperament
I want to make Nine Inch Nails-esque music and film scores with this thing. Seriously you should mail one to somebody like Trent Reznor. This thing has some serious potential.
Wow, Nate...what an adventure it was, manifesting that creature for you! We've filled it with all the love and creativity we could muster....now you get to bring it to the world. We can't wait to hear where you take it (and it takes you!). Much love and many thanks!Fred and Suzy
Fred Carlson I'd like to sereptisually turn You on
You've always had an enormous talent and an innovative mind, the combination of which has produced some amazing string instruments over the years.
About 20 yrs. ago someone gave me an old sewing machine, and I got the idea of connecting it to the wheel of a hurdy-gurdy, which would allow me to turn the wheel via a treadle whilst having my right hand free to pluck strings. I built a hurdy-gurdy with a fingerboard, which is called a strohfidl, but I never got around to attaching the wheel to the treadle. Your motor-driven wheel reminded me of that.
A modern day arpeggione. Nice. I want to build a viola organista next.
this needs to be put in a sample library!
this is a work of art and a piece of engineering in the same time. well, bravo! wonderful instrument!
Now that is fantastic! Such a haunting and emotional tone. I could see this fitting into an opera score quite well.
circle is closed. hurdy gurdy was created like cello with infinite bow, but now wheel is returned. amazing.
Amazing sound!! Beautiful instrument! True art!
This is the sort of sound/music that would be perfect for the new Dune movie!
I'm sure there are lots of musicians that would love this instrument. Pete Knight springs to mind
Another amazing creation comes to life. Welcome to the family and congratulations to you, Nate!
god that is gorgeous and sounds amazing. and btw-I love love love the hurgy gurdy. I am saving up to purchase one so I can learn. so I am loving this drone cello u made. it sounds like how an angels workshop would sound I think :) and those f holes-just wow
What an amazing instrument. Sounds and looks so beautiful! Nice work.
you got cello with tanpura and cello
aww come on, this is nice hybrid instrument and well made
Wow!!! Amazing!!!! Very innovative creation!!! I am very excited, being an Indian Violinist.....!
Sounds beautiful. Great job.
I’d call that a cello d’amore
Such GENIUS!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! awe.....awe.......
It’s crazy cool!!! Thanks!!!😎✌️🌞🎻
Way to think outside the Nathan and also to the makers of this beautiful instrument. Concert please!
Incredible!!!
Dayum... that is amazing!!!
searched for unusual cellos. was not disappointed. i love the innovation, bowed strings have been way too static for too long.
Very ingenious!!
Mad scientist of music
amazing and beautiful
Tech and traditional craft :) Nice work sir.
fantastic!
Wow fantastic
Couldn't hear the sympathetic strings because of the noise of the drones.
holy shit that is the coolest most incredible thing i have ever seen. you had me at the f-holes
Those arnt f holes those are deformed s holes
from what I can tell, those are fairly standard for ''Viola d'amore'' and you can see them on a few pochette fiddles.
here's a few links:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503185?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-1800&what=Chordophones&ft=*&offset=120&rpp=20&pos=138
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501574?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-1800&what=Chordophones&ft=*&offset=100&rpp=20&pos=107
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504228?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-1800&what=Chordophones&ft=*&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=6
Very warm and mesmerizing. One should be able to play any Indian Raag on it too. Looks like the side chorus of sympathetic strings function much in the same way as the sarangi or dilruba or taus. Wonder if a player can arrange the tuning of the jawari or buzzing strings to the different modes/raags or if this instrument has a fixed chromatic scale? Do the wheeled strings have a tonic and fifth? I did find the hurdygurdy drone a little over powering of the jawari set which can ring out each note as it bowed as is the function on sarangi.
Ugh... it'd be like having a harpsichord and an accordion with you all the time while playing the cello. Amazing work, though. It's beautiful looking and the technology is so cool.
I love this❤️
That's awesome :o
With a pasione high E string.
cool!
If you like sympathetic strings you should look up the Sarangi, mine has 32 sympathetic strings :)
Amazing! Indian style cello!
👏👏👏
Only the one video of this beast!?! Why are you being selfish? We need more!!! D:
Search Sympathetic Drone Cello, you'll find at least one more :)
it’s like a bazantar but smaller and with a motor. cool!
Cello+bass+herdygurdy+harp guitar = that
far freaking out
So... this is a cello-hurdy gurdy-sitar?
Yes, that is an accurate descriptor.
wowowowow
I'm always surprised at what internet scrooges will go out of their way to dislike.
Like... come on... this? I'm no happy go lucky guy, but how miserable does one have to be? Really...
Beautiful work both on the instrument and with it. The piece at the end, it sounds familiar like something from the Vampyr soundtrack...I can't quite place it! Is it an original off-the-cuff piece?
Why isn't this viral?
How would you maintain such a complex instrument
Would love to duet with him with my surbihar!
Just finished watching The Son, great job, Nathan! The last episode has a very atmospheric cover of Cohen's "It Seemed the Better Way". Has that track ever been released in any way?
Thanks for the kind words! I am hoping to see my score for The Son released sometime next year and want to include the Cohen cover on that soundtrack - my version, which you heard in the finale, is sung by Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top!
Want one.
Interesting, would have liked to hear it without the motor running.
I would love to create a piece with this.
Please can we make this happen!! I love your music!
very cool. brought to mind the mohan veena, but no hurdy-gurdy apparatus on that creature. q's: how do you keep the motor from interfering (either sonically or via vibration) and how difficult is it to tune to accomodate different keys?
Hey Brosco!
Lots of R&D went into motors and mounting, to find the quietest set-up. Our final solution was to get a digital speed controller for the motor...the motor speed can thus be fine tuned so that what noise it does make essentially becomes another drone, a part of the overall sound.
The drone strings are low-tension and have a pretty big range of tuning. They tune at the pegbox as with the main strings, and utilize a peg with internal gearing to avoid the need for fine tuners on a tailpiece.
Thanks for your interest,
Fred Carlson (one of the builders)
making the motor a part of the drone...brilliant!
The shape of the instrument indicates its a baby upright bass, not cello ...
Isnt this like a bazantar?
I was thinking the same thing except that this instrument has the hurdy gurdy wheel.
Really cool. I'm in your area. We should connect
Brilliant! Please become friends with Dylan Carlson.
Really nice, can you tell me what that beautifull piece of music is?
It was something improvised the first time I played the instrument...
Thanks for the answer, I wish I could improvise like that...
Gimme that
Unbelievable ! How is the little wheel actioned, by the bow?
There's a little DC motor hidden beneath the tailpiece cover, with a digital speed controller and an on/off foot switch that sit on the floor. The idea was to make the electronic aspect somewhat invisible, not something listeners would notice. So it really seems kind of magical...
Fred Carlson
Very well done, this instrument is really something :)
Hardanger hurdygurdy cello
Sounds like it could be in the game of thrones score
I'm sorry to tell you that it is not a cello, but it is a viola de Gamba. Still impressive though!
Thanks for your comment! You're correct in noticing that the instrument has some similarities to viola da gamba. What you may not be able to tell from the video is that the instruments' architecture, plate graduation and other important aspects are in fact based on cello. That, and the fact that it is tuned in fifths like a cello and has no frets really makes it more of a cello than a viol.
Body is built more like a bass than a cello. How come?
holy mother of God...
Was this inspired by the bazantar?
Suzy and I have been making instruments with sympathetic strings since the early 1980s; I don't know when the Bazantar was made, but certainly we had never heard of it then. And Nate was interested in the automatic drone feature, more like something found on Hurdy-Gurdies (the bagpipes of the string world), and not a feature of the Bazantar. So I don't think we can say the drone cello was inspired by the Bazantar, though I do think it's an amazing instrument! Fred Carlson
Jimmy Page needs to see this.
#bluey
Take my money
baryton inspired
Too bad you can hardly hear the buzzing strings over the drone strings.
Yes, the drone strings occupy the same "sonic space" as the jiwari strings, and are louder and constant. The jiwari strings do add wonderfully to the ambiance, but to really hear them one can always play the instrument without the drones.
This was already done?
Thought it was the bazantar. Just because you are using a cello instead of a base its a "new" concept?
Certainly sympathetic strings on a bowed instrument is not a new concept at all. However, I know of no other cellos using a motorized Hurdy-Gurdy-type bowing wheel on drone strings. I think the combination does make it pretty unique in the instrument world. Fred Carlson
Sounds Indian...
The immediately obvious musical drawback is that there is no apparent ability to control the intensity (volume) of the drone.
Sitarcello sounds better