Picture an ordinary piano keyboard. Nice job.

Now, instead of the multitude of minature mallets striking a series of strings to promptly produce any number of notes, imagine tiny springloaded knife-like surfaces scraping various slender lengths of chalkboard, to effect the characteristc screeches in uncharacteristic harmonic unity.

Anti-music to flout the bourgeois conventions of the establishment? Or some sort of powerful new sonic assault weapon? I don't care, I want one.
-- nihilo, May 24 2006

P.D.Q. Bach http://www.schickele.com/
Fortunately, PDQ Bach's alter ego is still with us - touring in the US, in fact. [jutta, May 29 2006]

My teeth hurt just thinking about this. No idea what to give this, so I'll have to get back to you when I've stopped trying to suck my gums.
-- spinglespangle, May 25 2006


The last bit of music I made used the sound of guitar strings being scratched by a pick down their entire length. [+]
-- wagster, May 25 2006


if it made a smell as well, it could be a scratch and sniff - a + for anything that makes an interesting noise which can be described as music.
-- xenzag, May 25 2006


like chipmunks...
-- jellydoughnut, May 27 2006


I'm pretty sure this is baked, I think they call it an accordion.
-- RayfordSteele, May 28 2006


If only this had been developed during P.D.Q. Bach's time! He would have had a ball with it.
-- phundug, May 29 2006


Normally I am an easy pastry for musical instruments. This one, however, makes me want to go invent the herring gatling.
-- lurch, May 29 2006


[jutta] PDQ Bach. I don't understand it. Isn't it sacreilegious? (That coming from me). I love Bach! I really don't get this dude's performance.

I don't get the idea, either, but I stand back. no vote.

[wagster] try using a quarter instead of a pick.(not good for the strings!) It works best w/ the slide (If any of you ever meet me in real life, I really, really suck at the guitar now. I haven't played in years. It used to be the love of my life, but then came kids. (& a broken finger/tendon I never got fixed.)
-- Zimmy, May 30 2006



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