Stickbow Multi-percussion instrument (bass drum, percussion + treble, cuica, guiro, clavero, clave… all at once!), equipped with pickup and a wooden strip, which can be played plucked or rubbed using a bow, or even scraped guiro style, completely dismountable. The main idea of this instrument is to reproduce…
Strings drum Inspiré du tambour du Béarn, cet instrument accompagne les flûtes, galoubets, fifres… Deuxième vidéo ci-dessus : avec Arnaud Soidet à la guitare à trous ! Tout épicéa, ce tambour à cordes est équipé de 4 cordes de guitare, nylon ou acier, plusieurs accords possibles, un micro Piezzo et…
Clavero Cet instrument combine mes claves et mes gueros, en pin et frêne.
Filbasse 1 string, 1 mic: the filbasse, or “Horse bass”…! A bass, an animal!? A fiddle (?? Drums! A saxophone? And when you mix all of them, here’s what you got… Isn’t it stunning?! Basswood or mountain ash body, wavy chestnut soundboard, elm turnbuckle, Piezzo pickup.
Shell See the video below: here’s a demo of several small percussions made in the workshop : claves, shells, spoons…
Musical arc, modified berimbau Musical arc, modified berimbau, or: single string guitar, or string drum! Single string instrument to pluck, strum or hit (see the different videos), with or without piezo mic. All the guitar strings can be played for each chord in every pitches. See the 3 videos below……
Spoon See the video below: here’s a demo of several small percussions made in the workshop : claves, shells, spoons…
Clave See the video below: here’s a demo of several small percussions made in the workshop: claves, shells, spoons…
Finger Clave The first model of finger clave was like a balloon making that noise: boom boom chaka… As for the second model, it was kind of a surfboard sounding like boom boom chaka… One mic, three different sounds: thousands potential rhythms!
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