Cool old musical instruments

[TBRS1]

I have a passion for ancient, obscure, peculiar musical instruments.

My ESPECIAL passion is for musicians using these instruments to create new, awesomely creative music.

Here's an instrument you don't hear too often. This is Patty Gurdy playing (of course!) the hurdy-gurdy:

Anybody else have anything fun to share?

 

[Raggamuffin]

Eluveitie is a Folk Metal band and they incorporate the hurdy gurdy and other instruments

Ed

 

[Forest Cat]

The band Wardruna use several traditional and historic norse instrument, like goat horn, tagelharpe, deer-hide frame drums, kraviklyra, mouth harpe and lur. And they do it well, I like it.

 

[TBRS1]

Eluveitie is a Folk Metal band and they incorporate the hurdy gurdy and other instruments

Ed

Wow. Just wow. They are rockin' the neck out of their instruments!

 

[TBRS1]

The band Wardruna use several traditional and historic norse instrument, like goat horn, tagelharpe, deer-hide frame drums, kraviklyra, mouth harpe and lur. And they do it well, I like it.

That's music you can feel so strongly that you can almost chew it.

A lot of the music I end up listening to is heavily influenced by Celticy/Norsey sensibilities. I love that!

 

[Forest Cat]

Something from the land of Swedes, they call it a "nyckelharpa". Translated to English it's a key harpe. Some call it keyed fiddle. The song is called "Old Woman".

 

[TBRS1]

Something from the land of Swedes, they call it a "nyckelharpa". Translated to English it's a key harpe. Some call it keyed fiddle. The song is called "Old Woman".

It's amazing how technically and mechanically sophisticated some of these instruments, like the nyckelharpa (and hurdy-gurdy) were.

There were mechanical geniuses in the past, and it seems like they enjoyed designing musical instruments. Now-a-days they seem to prefer developing plumbing systems for strip malls .