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Complicated Music: Triolin Needs Three Violinists to Play in Sync, Backwards

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The violin just got an upgrade, but in all the wrong places. Alex Sobolev’s Triolin is basically three violins in one, and while it might seem like a novel albeit unusual idea to modify the classical string instrument, I don’t think violinists will agree.

TriolinThe trio of violins are joined together at the place where the violinist’s chin should rest, so that means they’ll have to play this thing backwards–and without a chin rest! Another catch is that the three violinists will have to play in sync with one another to make sweet music on the Triolin.

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It’s a very impressive build, but attempting to actually play it is probably even more challenging.

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Rock the Cantina with Guitar2-D2

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Some guy named Doug built this awesome homemade R2-D2 guitar. That’s about all we know of this guitar other than the fact that Doug is cool, the guitar is cool, everything Doug has every done is cool, anyone who knows Doug is cool, anyone who knows someone else named Doug is cool, air conditioning is cool, Doug is superior to everyone and I’m offering Doug $50 for this guitar right on the spot right here right now.
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$50 is too cheap for this guitar? How about $100 Doug? Come on, whaddya say? Ok apparently Doug is also very smart. How about now, Doug? Now? $125? Ok, final offer $135 cold hard cash.

(via geekologie)

Rock the Cantina with Guitar2-D2


Skull Electric Violin

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Check out this badass electric violin shaped like a skull. The Stratton Skull 5-string Electric Violin retails for $2999. Obviously someone is making a killing on that. Make no bones about it, this violin is cool. This a seriously killer instrument with a Barbera Twin Hybrid transducer system for a strong output signal with a rich focused tone suited for high-volume performances with high-gain effects. And no I don’t know what all that means either.

(via neatorama)

Skull Electric Violin


Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol F1 review

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What is a DJ? Everyone who considers him or herself one can probably give you a unique answer. Is everyone with a music collection and a sense for good timing a DJ, or does their music collection have to exceed a certain number of gigabytes or slabs of vinyl to be in the club (no pun intended)? Audio playback devices are certainly getting more plentiful and powerful on a large scale; anyone who's played with an iOS DJ app can tell you that. In the deeper end of the DJ pool, things aren't expanding at such a frantic pace. But every once in a while a new toy crops up that adds depth and breadth to the way music nerds play back music. Native Instruments' just-released Traktor Kontrol F1 is a blinking slab of rainbow-tinged hardware with an intense devotion to manipulating samples. While boxes from Roland and Akai have been defining genres for decades, this 16-pad add-on takes the sampling game to a new arena. Will DJ's want it? We feel it's safe to say they will. At $279, should they buy it? That question's a little more complicated.

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