Posts tagged musical instruments
Flute player, Gotaland, Sweden, ca. 1890.
The sound of the harpsichord is like two skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Raoul Dufy
(1877-1953)
clarinet barrels by Morrie Backun/BMS.
Factoid: Though it may now belong chiefly to the Cylons and T-Pain, the vocoder was originally implemented as an efficient method of voice compression and encryption for secure transmissions, and was used as such during World War II.
The rhythmicon, essentially the world’s first drum machine, built by Leon Theremin in the 1930s at the request and according to the concept of Henry Cowell. The rhythmicon, or “polyrhythmophone,” was designed to facilitate the execution of complex polyrhythms impossible for a single performer using conventional means. It works by projecting light onto photoreceptors; the rhythms are achieved by having the light pass through holes on discs which rotate at controlled speeds.
Thurlow Lieurance with three Native Americans, 1922. The instrument pictured is known as a courting flute. (US LoC)
(by fotosbeno)
Australian plate-glass negative, date unknown.
“Butcher’s Blues”
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