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| Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments | 
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| Artist: Bart Hopkins & Various Artists
Label: Ellipsis Arts
Category: Music
Buy New: $36.15
Buy New/Used from $12.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 89497
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 052296363024
EAN: 0052296363024
ASIN: B00000BIII
Release Date: September 15, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Expand Your Ears - Just For The Fun Of It June 9, 2000
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is one of the few CD's that I just have no hesitation giving five stars to. "Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones" is a recording of people playing unusual and home-made musical instruments, performing familiar and utterly alien-sounding compositions on them. If you have any ear at all for music this CD will keep you fascinated for days, and reading about the artists in the accompanying book is equally entrancing. A great many books and recordings of experimental musical instruments are painfully dry and boring, written (and recorded) from an academic point of view. This book/CD set isn't, and as a result it's highly entertaining. I can guarantee that as a listener you have never heard anything quite like the sounds you will hear on this disc. And far from being a collection of funny noises, all of the pieces on here are compositions, with beginnings, middles and ends, actual rhythms, and melodies. This CD/book set is an eye-opener and a mind opener, and it's very inspirational. It made me want to go out to the garage, fire up a bandsaw and make my own instruments. And I will guarantee you that nobody can keep a straight face during the rendition of "New York, New York" on the Car Horn Organ.
This is a really interesting collection October 28, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just finished listening to this for the second time in a row. (I only paid 15 for it though!) It's full of beautiful music and is a really great package. It looks like a book and has lots of notes about all of the wonderful intstruments that make up the collection. Musically it's obscure, but what would you expect "car horn organs" and giant sculptures to sound like? And just wait until you hear Clara Rockwell play the Theremin. I plan to buy several copies as presents for my artist friends. There's a second volume that's good too.
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