3 ms·

Continuous Pitch Wind Instruments

13 points by matheist 2y ago

re 2y ago
I was curious about the name "glissotar" (less self-explanatory than the in-development glissoflute and glissoboe) but it appears to refer to the Hungarian Tárogató https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1rogat%C3%B3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1rogat%C3%B3 Here's a playlist of songs composed for glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQMlBq9OKeXINkPCOrLyp1H8nZKJc01E https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQMlBq9OKeXINkPCOrLy... (found at https://sonus.foundation/en/page/show/call-for-scores-new-pieces-for-glissotar https://sonus.foundation/en/page/show/call-for-scores-new-pi...)
dr_dshiv 2y ago
When singing, it often sounds bad to slide between notes. Why is that? Music is rather discrete, rather than continuous— we like notes. But maybe that’s just what we are used to?
- hapapa2024 2y ago
  plenty of popular instruments are continuous, e.g. synth, theramin, violin, and plenty of singing styles value glissando: eg some chinese folk music
deleted 2y ago
[deleted]
smitty1e 2y ago
All bets are off when some mad Celt hooks this up to a bag and some drones. You'd have to take air out the back end and over the shoulder to connect to the "chanter" at mouth level and have full reach on the instrument. But the diatonic scale of the traditional highland bagpipe induces an acoustic claustrophobia, and this would be an escape.
defrost 2y ago
Introducing the Glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zFrXYQLk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zFrXYQLk4 10 hours prior on HN: Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 There's also Charlie McMahon's Didjeribone which is very much sans reed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UqnWU8d8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UqnWU8d8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVHYqBUZg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVHYqBUZg0
dang 2y ago
Recent and related: Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 - June 2024 (41 comments)

13 points by matheist 2y ago

re 2y ago

I was curious about the name "glissotar" (less self-explanatory than the in-development glissoflute and glissoboe) but it appears to refer to the Hungarian Tárogató https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1rogat%C3%B3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1rogat%C3%B3 Here's a playlist of songs composed for glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQMlBq9OKeXINkPCOrLyp1H8nZKJc01E https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQMlBq9OKeXINkPCOrLy... (found at https://sonus.foundation/en/page/show/call-for-scores-new-pieces-for-glissotar https://sonus.foundation/en/page/show/call-for-scores-new-pi...)

dr_dshiv 2y ago

When singing, it often sounds bad to slide between notes. Why is that? Music is rather discrete, rather than continuous— we like notes. But maybe that’s just what we are used to?

hapapa2024 2y ago
plenty of popular instruments are continuous, e.g. synth, theramin, violin, and plenty of singing styles value glissando: eg some chinese folk music

deleted 2y ago

[deleted]

smitty1e 2y ago

All bets are off when some mad Celt hooks this up to a bag and some drones. You'd have to take air out the back end and over the shoulder to connect to the "chanter" at mouth level and have full reach on the instrument. But the diatonic scale of the traditional highland bagpipe induces an acoustic claustrophobia, and this would be an escape.

defrost 2y ago

Introducing the Glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zFrXYQLk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zFrXYQLk4 10 hours prior on HN: Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 There's also Charlie McMahon's Didjeribone which is very much sans reed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UqnWU8d8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UqnWU8d8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVHYqBUZg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVHYqBUZg0

dang 2y ago

Recent and related: Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 - June 2024 (41 comments)