@mediocrebot@mycya4me@yakkoTDI Plenty of youtube carillon concerts. Here is a well known classical piece adapted for the carillon (I play this one too). This shows a bit of the tower but mostly the carillonneur at the keyboard playing. Bells sound more mellow on the ground listening. The wires from the keyboard to the bell clapper up above pulling the clapper against the bell. As a result you have dynamic control. Also with the petals they are connected to the batons (what you play with your hands) which is why they go down when you use the petal board.
I believe this is the Rockefeller Carillon in Chicago. It is one of the carillons with some of the biggest bells (so lower in pitch). Bells are tuned with a minor third overtone which is why it sounds somewhat different in “tuning” than a piano. And of course air pollution eats away at the metal with slowly changes the tuning (they are tuned by shaving away metal on the inside of the bell to get them ‘on pitch’).
@Kidsandliz when I was a student there I have a century ago, you could pretty much just go up into the tower. It was a different world. And I know when I got to go up there I was just awestruck because I’d never seen anything like it before
This wasn’t really my choice though. As part of highschool we had to have credits in xyz to get a core certificate and that impacted college grants etc etc. Band was better than choir I thought.
I was ok. But they still made us do concerts… Up on a stage is not my forte and I’m sure I’ve forgotten all the notes/fingering
I could do it dont mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing pretty well
also mine was not anywhere near that pretty. We rented the schools one that had dents in it cause the band director said we need a baritone. Then Dad found a $500 gold color one in decent shape later. I guess in the classifieds. At the time that was… a lot of money. I think. He kind of bent over backwards to pay for all our school… Sorry having a moment
@unksol I played trumpet (coronet, actually) in 6th through 10th grade band, but quit when I discovered cars (and the girls they attracted ). I still have the coronet and remember (more or less) how to play it, but haven’t taken it out of the case in years.
The embouchure remained useful, however…
@macromeh it might be nice to have it. But it would just be sitting in a case that I never open. Granted there’s other stuff from when I was a kid just sitting around waiting for a cat to destroy it. But it’s probably good they sold it on to some other kid
Cars are easy. Not sure I have figured out girls/women
@unksol What finally worked for me (after several misfires) was to find a woman who had already figured herself out. Much easier that way - half the work is done.
@macromeh lol. This also assumes you have yourself figured out. Not sure who is running those tests to verify. Maybe they can hand out gold stars so we know what we’re doing.
@macromeh I had never heard the term “embouchure” regarding that. But yeah I had to carry the mouth piece around all summer and work on that. I bet there are no other useful applications…
Piano. Learned it when I was young, never continued it after a few years. It would be fun to go some place with a piano and be able to sit down and just play.
Played trumpet for 9 years and euphonium for 2 though, so got the music background down.
30 years ago, when my son was born, I bought an electric guitar and amp so I could teach myself to play knowing I’d be at home more. Last year my wife died and I picked up an acoustic guitar since I’d be spending more time alone. To date I can play about 5 chords and one blues tune… but I’ve always wanted to play the accordion.
@user06428178 I worked in a big box hardware store long since shuttered. I worked in the plumbing department and once this sweet little couple of oldsters I was helping stopped in their tracks and asked me to show them my hands. They both literally gasped and said “You have the perfect hands to play the concertina!” They were from some Eastern European nation and chattered to each other while gazing at my perfect concertina hands.
Anything. At all. During The lockdown I, like many, tried to learn to play. Bought some sweet electronic drums, a sweet bass, an even sweeter guitar and at the end of the day, I got nothing. People say a car loses 1/3 of its value the minute you drive it off the lot. I think instruments have it worse.
As a drummer, playing drums is pretty awesome. But playing literally any other instrument that can produce an actual melody is pretty jealousy inducing. Can’t exactly sit down at a drumset and serenade someone
From my earliest memories of the fair, I always wanted to play the Calliope so I could change it to a good melody, any melody other than that awful Carousal.
Theramin
Guitar
Stradivarius
@phendrick That’s a person you perv.
@phendrick @yakkoTDI Not if it’s consensual.
@phendrick @Salanth He will still be a person even without consent.
Saxophone
Six-manual pipe organ
Any & all of them. Sadly, a few childhood piano lessons didn’t lead to a Mozartian revelation as a prodigy.
Piano.
/showme a Moog synthesizer
/showme a cat playing an organ
@lonocat Some have mastered the piano, at least:
Drums seem pretty universal.
/showme dragon playing piano
@mediocrebot that is awesome
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
Bassoon
I’ve always wished I could sing.
@Kyeh I am sure you can sing just like my mom does. Did you mean sing well?
@yakkoTDI Of course.
I don’t even like hearing myself sing.
/showme a cat playing a carillon
@mediocrebot FAIL!! That is not a carillon. Not even close.
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot but it is a cat size one!
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mycya4me Maybe that is just what the control booth looks like.
@mediocrebot @mycya4me @yakkoTDI Plenty of youtube carillon concerts. Here is a well known classical piece adapted for the carillon (I play this one too). This shows a bit of the tower but mostly the carillonneur at the keyboard playing. Bells sound more mellow on the ground listening. The wires from the keyboard to the bell clapper up above pulling the clapper against the bell. As a result you have dynamic control. Also with the petals they are connected to the batons (what you play with your hands) which is why they go down when you use the petal board.
I believe this is the Rockefeller Carillon in Chicago. It is one of the carillons with some of the biggest bells (so lower in pitch). Bells are tuned with a minor third overtone which is why it sounds somewhat different in “tuning” than a piano. And of course air pollution eats away at the metal with slowly changes the tuning (they are tuned by shaving away metal on the inside of the bell to get them ‘on pitch’).
@Kidsandliz the first university i graduated from had one. it was pretty awesome then, cause i’d never seen or heard
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideucr.ucr.edu%2Fgalleria%2Fcarillon-work&psig=AOvVaw3PvA83xefcXlntRtw3kP8U&ust=1719771531112000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=2ahUKEwj-m_aqtoGHAxWqJkQIHSxiAY4QjRx6BAgAEBg
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@Cerridwyn I have played the Riverside Carillon many years ago (there was a Carillon conference there).
@Kidsandliz when I was a student there I have a century ago, you could pretty much just go up into the tower. It was a different world. And I know when I got to go up there I was just awestruck because I’d never seen anything like it before
I used to play the baritone
/image baritone instrument
This wasn’t really my choice though. As part of highschool we had to have credits in xyz to get a core certificate and that impacted college grants etc etc. Band was better than choir I thought.
I was ok. But they still made us do concerts… Up on a stage is not my forte and I’m sure I’ve forgotten all the notes/fingering
I could do it dont mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing pretty well
also mine was not anywhere near that pretty. We rented the schools one that had dents in it cause the band director said we need a baritone. Then Dad found a $500 gold color one in decent shape later. I guess in the classifieds. At the time that was… a lot of money. I think. He kind of bent over backwards to pay for all our school… Sorry having a moment
@unksol I played trumpet (coronet, actually) in 6th through 10th grade band, but quit when I discovered cars (and the girls they attracted
). I still have the coronet and remember (more or less) how to play it, but haven’t taken it out of the case in years.
The embouchure remained useful, however…
@unksol Jeez, how did I remember embouchure but manage to misspell cornet?
@macromeh it might be nice to have it. But it would just be sitting in a case that I never open. Granted there’s other stuff from when I was a kid just sitting around waiting for a cat to destroy it. But it’s probably good they sold it on to some other kid
Cars are easy. Not sure I have figured out girls/women
@unksol What finally worked for me (after several misfires) was to find a woman who had already figured herself out. Much easier that way - half the work is done.
@macromeh lol. This also assumes you have yourself figured out. Not sure who is running those tests to verify. Maybe they can hand out gold stars so we know what we’re doing.
@macromeh I had never heard the term “embouchure” regarding that. But yeah I had to carry the mouth piece around all summer and work on that. I bet there are no other useful applications…
Piano. Learned it when I was young, never continued it after a few years. It would be fun to go some place with a piano and be able to sit down and just play.
Played trumpet for 9 years and euphonium for 2 though, so got the music background down.
Anything. Pretty tone def.
30 years ago, when my son was born, I bought an electric guitar and amp so I could teach myself to play knowing I’d be at home more. Last year my wife died and I picked up an acoustic guitar since I’d be spending more time alone. To date I can play about 5 chords and one blues tune… but I’ve always wanted to play the accordion.
@texmarc I feel for you on the death of you soul mate!
Would love to learn concertina, sit on the stoop, and play tangos at dusk!
@user06428178 I worked in a big box hardware store long since shuttered. I worked in the plumbing department and once this sweet little couple of oldsters I was helping stopped in their tracks and asked me to show them my hands. They both literally gasped and said “You have the perfect hands to play the concertina!” They were from some Eastern European nation and chattered to each other while gazing at my perfect concertina hands.
Anything. At all. During The lockdown I, like many, tried to learn to play. Bought some sweet electronic drums, a sweet bass, an even sweeter guitar and at the end of the day, I got nothing. People say a car loses 1/3 of its value the minute you drive it off the lot. I think instruments have it worse.
As a drummer, playing drums is pretty awesome. But playing literally any other instrument that can produce an actual melody is pretty jealousy inducing. Can’t exactly sit down at a drumset and serenade someone
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
From my earliest memories of the fair, I always wanted to play the Calliope so I could change it to a good melody, any melody other than that awful Carousal.
/showme a lute