Simone Giertz - Denture Xylophone Adventure

I hadnt seen a vid from Simone in ages and then this pops up XD

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Perhaps not the most musical thing I’ve seen, but definitely in line with the kosmo aesthetics.

(fixed her name in the title, btw :slight_smile:)

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Thanks for that =) its pronounced like ‘Yetch’. Easy mistake =D

I guess it needs an acoustic chamber and some vibe isolation to get a little more musical value.
Id like to see midi play back on a trigger… who doesnt want a theme tune of chattering teeth when you enter the room lol

(I also edited the header, thought of a title)

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The teeth should be individually articulated. The musical possibilities are endless.

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finally someone invents a solid percussion instrument

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I was hoping she’d make them bite the bars to get a tone. Would have been fun if it looked like they were sticking out the tongues and biting them for each note :smiley:

If you really want to make a racket, the old football rattle is hard to beat. Take a cylindrical wooden handle and mount a wooden cog wheel about 3/4 of the way up. Now mount a rotating frame on bearings that brushes the end of a wooden batten against the teeth of the cog. It’s a fearsome noise maker.

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why are they not a thing anymore???

I imagine the solenoid is not releasing fast enough and damping the sound.

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Yeah, take an originally German surname and tweak the pronunciation (but not the spelling) very slightly so English speakers will land close enough to the Swedish pronunciation which of course differs from the German pronunciation. “I’ve just concluded that my ancestors were trolls.”

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Banned in the seventies amid concerns about fighting in the terraces using improvised weapons. More recent noise makers like the South African vuvuzela, a plastic wind instrument which was popularized in the 2010 World Cup, have tended to be more difficult to use as an offensive weapon. The vuvuzela was banned from matches anyway for different reasons.

Ratchet devices are also used in some religious litanies, particularly in Judaism. Loud rattles were also used as hand operated fire alarms and by Robert Peel’s early bobbies to summon help.

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Very lame solution to use a xylophone. When humans speak vowels they choose the size of the acoustic chamber their mouth forms using their tongue that produces that vowel. When they produce it at a given pitch this boils down to the speed the vowel chords vibrate that send bursts of air into that chamber. Why not try to simulate that?

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Could you imagine trying to coordinate like 9 of these things? XD

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be fun to have this app midi controlled .

According to Collins dictionary, the word teledildonics seems to have become current in British English at around the turn of the century.

Bela Salt has a version of the pink trombone, I believe.

I found it. Here it is.

Look in the file tree under examples/Salt/pink-trombone and you’ll find most of the code in render.cpp.

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The voder
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Have you seen this yet? Connect modern techbology with this and you get the perfect human voice machine!
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