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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:40 +0000
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- >Date: 07 Jan 1993 09:29:15 -0800 (PST)
- >From: Mike <MASUDA@SJSUVM1.BITNET>
- >Subject: RE: Free country?? I'd beg to differ...
-
- I know this comes late, but forgive me -- I have these 600+ ALLMUSIC messages
- to go through...
-
- >what instrument is the STRANGEST instrument you have ever heard
- >in a song, and which song was it featured in?
-
- A chicken, in "Psycho Chicken", a parody of "Psycho Killer" (Talking
- Heads) featured by can't-remember-who.
-
- >what is the most bizarre instrument you have ever heard play music?
- >(the one that make you say, "what the hell is that contraption?")
- >Please describe the instrument in detail, if you can. I may plan to
- >build one. ;)
-
- Same. It's rather small, and the form is more or less that of a
- small goose, only it is a bit more sharp at the end. You can produce
- weird sound by bending and squeezing the neck, only you have to be care-
- ful not to damage it completely -- also because it is usually unfixable.
- Cheap models are usually white, more elaborate types are multicoloured,
- usually brownish anyway. And there are several sizes, too... :) :)
-
- More seriously, Mike: the weird object made with spring coil you
- showed me in San Francisco was just great. What was the name? I'd like to
- build one for myself too...
-
- Ciao, Marco
-
- P.S.: now that I remember -- funniest thing happened with Masuda-man that
- evening: I was strumming his Stratocaster, and I showed him a weird alter-
- nate tuning. He decided it was interesting, and wanted to remember it.
- Now, the guitar was connected to a small battery amp, a few feet away
- from us. Mike quickly grabbed a small tape recorder in his bag and
- asked me to play one string at a time, which I did very carefully and
- letting ring. In the meantime Mike was taping the tuning... but none
- realised he was picking the strings, not the amp!!! As soon as I had
- finished we looked at each other, the light came in our mind and we
- both started laughing rather histerically. Needless to say, the sample
- was repeated, with the microphone pointed to the amp this time...
-
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- Like a shot, like a paparazzo picture gone to pot...
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- Marco Olivotto, C.I.S.C.A. - Univ. degli Studi di Trento, POVO (TN) - ITALY
- olivotto@itnvax.cineca.it OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA
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