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Guitars can imitate any instrument – this man proves it

25 points by colinprince 8y ago

oblib 8y ago
That's impressive!
asciimo 8y ago
... with an assortment of household items, effects, and a looper pedal. Still, impressive. I can barely make guitar noises with a guitar.
crispinb 8y ago
Misusing a guitar (the finest musical instrument in history) to imitate the Scottish pipes (the least musical instrument of torture yet devised) would be illegal in any just jurisdiction.
- woah-coool 8y ago
  Are you from 1982? I think I saw you open up for a Gallagher show with that joke!
zwieback 8y ago
very cool but didn't hear any woodwinds or brass instruments
- stcredzero 8y ago
  On the Flash Gordon soundtrack, Queen does very well with fanfares that would usually be played on trumpets, but instead played on electric guitar. Not that they sound like trumpets. It just sounds awesome!
- kenhwang 8y ago
  I was really hoping for a flute imitation on a guitar cause I'm really curious how that would be done. But it seems like he's just doing imitations of other string instruments excluding the piano.
iratewizard 8y ago
This news article is a YouTube description with 85 ads and poor user interface. Why not just post the video?
- Fnoord 8y ago
  There's like a 33% chance the submitter (using an adblocker, like I do) didn't see any ads (like I do).
- hammock 8y ago
  One reason is because the HN algorithm automatically penalizes any submission from the youtube.com domain. (This fact is a secret)
Fnoord 8y ago
Electric violin (by e.g. Ed Alleyne-Johnson) [1] imitates the guitar, as do Infected Mushroom's synths (cover on guitar [2] [3]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2dWd2ssfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2dWd2ssfA [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkl1ym9pr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkl1ym9pr4
kylec 8y ago
Maybe not "any" instrument, considering all the ones imitated except for the bagpipes (which were questionable) were of other stringed instruments.

25 points by colinprince 8y ago

That's impressive!

... with an assortment of household items, effects, and a looper pedal. Still, impressive. I can barely make guitar noises with a guitar.

crispinb 8y ago

Misusing a guitar (the finest musical instrument in history) to imitate the Scottish pipes (the least musical instrument of torture yet devised) would be illegal in any just jurisdiction.

woah-coool 8y ago
Are you from 1982? I think I saw you open up for a Gallagher show with that joke!

zwieback 8y ago

very cool but didn't hear any woodwinds or brass instruments

stcredzero 8y ago
On the Flash Gordon soundtrack, Queen does very well with fanfares that would usually be played on trumpets, but instead played on electric guitar. Not that they sound like trumpets. It just sounds awesome!
kenhwang 8y ago
I was really hoping for a flute imitation on a guitar cause I'm really curious how that would be done. But it seems like he's just doing imitations of other string instruments excluding the piano.

iratewizard 8y ago

This news article is a YouTube description with 85 ads and poor user interface. Why not just post the video?

Fnoord 8y ago
There's like a 33% chance the submitter (using an adblocker, like I do) didn't see any ads (like I do).
hammock 8y ago
One reason is because the HN algorithm automatically penalizes any submission from the youtube.com domain. (This fact is a secret)

Fnoord 8y ago

Electric violin (by e.g. Ed Alleyne-Johnson) [1] imitates the guitar, as do Infected Mushroom's synths (cover on guitar [2] [3]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2dWd2ssfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2dWd2ssfA [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkl1ym9pr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkl1ym9pr4

kylec 8y ago

Maybe not "any" instrument, considering all the ones imitated except for the bagpipes (which were questionable) were of other stringed instruments.