Re: SHOW ME YOUR HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS

[ThisAlbion]

headache



[hookuspookus529]

give me my hubcaps back

[LockeXIII]

Amazing. I really liked the second instrument. It was like a combination between a steel guitar and a Chinese guqin.

[ludachris7999]

amazing

[CHRISTIANPADILLA100]

wat is it?

[PRSGuitarist1]

Simply awesome. I've made cheap little makeshift instruments but nothing like that!!

[RobertSHilton]

@PRSGuitarist1 Hi,

Sometimes you get the best music from simple instruments. In You Tube search "Robert S. Hilton" and look for the video of me and my friend Yusef playing some simple instruments that I made.

Enjoy!!

[brkrules22]

@PRSGuitarist1 i need an idea for a school project so can you PLEASE tell me how to make it???

[Praseodym666]

one word ... awesome ! I want more !!!

[PepinoMichoacan]

This is free jazz !

[beezerk1]

remarkable. I can get almost the same sounds by ironing a gerbil. All kidding aside...interesting :-)

[falaqdad15]

trippy

[diddymuck]

creative details please!

[RobertSHilton]

1st instrument: Two Fuji film canisters, & local tree branches, 20 strings, 2 groups of 8 open strings each tuned to an harmonic minor scale in the fifth mode. 4 slide strings in the center tuned to an open minor chord 1,3,5,1.

2nd instrument: Stereo instrument, a paint can and a pineapple juice can, and local tree branches, 18 strings, 1 group of 4 bass strings tuned D,F#,A,D. 1 group of 6 slide strings in the center D,Eb,G,A,Bb,D. 1 group of 8 open strings tuned D,Eb,F#,G,A,Bb,C#,D.

[skruvmaejsel]

Can you tell me what materials you used for the "single can indistriala can" and what made it sound so harch and buzzy? (:

[RobertSHilton]

The can is a five gallon can. The flexible stick is a piece of heavy split bamboo. It is connected to the side of the can with wire looped around it and twisted inside the can. The wire is music wire .035". I added bottle caps to the vibrating surface to give it the buzz. There are six caps connected loosely in three pairs through the top near where the string connects, one inside and one outside in each set. The whole instrument is held together with twisted wire except for the pickup and jack.

[Amethysting]

Marvelous

[5anjii]

I love the dissonant quality of your.....Creation. Wish I owned one.

[guitarheo3]

what is this wierd alien weapon being used as an insterment????

[xblsnarb]

wow. fuck those ignorant people talking through his performance. i hate people like that. what are they doing there if they didn't come to listen.

wonderfully creative stuff.

[RobertSHilton]

These are just a couple of short video clips shot with a digital still camera at an art opening. The voices are so loud because the camera is in the crowd.

[xblsnarb]

i see. thanks for clarifying. perhaps i was a little too quick to judge.

it's just something i have witnessed more than once and i tend to be a tad misanthropic anyway.

[InHumanFormR]

not a very catchy song.. but i dont think i could design a working instrument.. you 1 me 0

[rhythmtandemplayer]

Nice Work! For another innovative instrument; check RHYTHMTANDEM.

[idaltuguy]

Homemade instruments are the past, present and future of music. What once was obscure, becomes a common instrument. Your music will be original, and will add to music itself.

[muladar10]

cooooooooolllll :D

[vinderfraenensomgrav]

how did you do that??

[Rahmemhotep]

2 words: fucking awesome

[mrchile12]

nice

[tragictravistie]

its amazing that hes in tune without having any markers on the instrument.

[ProblemAudio]

I do believe he's sliding to the notes...

and there are such things as violins, violas, cellos, fruitless guitars/ basses, etc.

[tragictravistie]

there are but they dont have more strings than i can count. and they arent quite as big. also fretless guitars and basses almost always have inlays.

[barnickd]

frettless

[joyjoana1]

Chapeau!

[shalalaszwee]

Great stuff!

[BillyDOOM23]

That is so damn cool.

You are awesome.

[Gatormon]

That made my head hurt and my eyes cross.I hate it when that happens.

[olp34]

Please don't tell us about how u feel when u feel indisposed :)

[Yerei]

Wtf nice

[DOSphantom]

I could use one, gives me some ideals for what to do this summer.

[SuzyTurquoiseBlue]

the very first bit sounds the music from heroes anyone watch it?

[Hylaeosaurus]

Do you mean heroes or this?

[random1092]

thats dope nukka

[VenusMetisGalatea]

sweet and trippy

[vinceownzbill]

awesome ..

[Perching1]

Sweet man!

[Edvardss]

Cool! I'm made this =) THX

[500019579]

sounds like smoking every drug out there.

[MoaiMaea]

At the same time, yeah.

[FFXfever]

holy shit thats awweeeeesooooooome

[Ziggerplz]

I never noticed how many home made instruments sound like sitars

[BountyHunter233]

if you ever play guitar with a botle neck slide sounds just like it

[Moezzilla]

ahhh.....

[connordeag]

trippy

[SgtPidgeon]

make more and sell them!! :D

[SpeedzterZ6]

wtf is it

[halo3guy2]

sounds like a sitar

[deadbabies3]

thats awsome

[tommacfie]

They give a great sound. You can really hear the materials they were made from in their sound. Brilliant!

[feebite12369874]

freakin sweet

[TheDish101]

I'm deeply disturbed from those noises...

[FloydMckoysky]

dang that thing is so cool!!!!!!!!! nice job!

[RufusGuitarist]

Couple questions:

How long did it take to make them?

Can materials did you use?

And how did you make them??

[RobertSHilton]

1)I always work on numerous projects at once so sometimes I don't finish things until I get back around to them. So they might take months or years. 2)These particular instruments use industrial recycled materials as well as natural sticks and branches. The first has film cannisters and the second has a paint can and juice can. 3)I start by developing the concepts in my journal. Then I look for the materials that I will use. I determine the order of the construction processes.

[SurferGuy407]

Wow, sounds great. I think that (please correct me if I am wrong) the reason it sounds so unique and arabic sounding is that it is tuned in quarter steps.

[RobertSHilton]

The 1st instrument is tuned in a Harmonic minor scale. the 2nd is tuned in a Middle Eastern scale called Hitsaz Kier which has several successive half steps. The slide strings on each let me play any notes and between the notes.

[Milky111wtf]

makes me think of Diablo II- you know, the desert act? Good times....

[potatoturtle]

i like act 4 the best in diablo 2

[xlaym]

yeah lol you re right^^

[ChiTownShakeDown]

thats dope, its like a crazy outer world tuning that you could never get on a guitar

[gibbybm666]

your amazing.

[redsN64]

that was amazing. also dont be offended by this but it sounds like somthing you would get high wile listening to lol. any way awsome gui.... ummmmm instruments?

[Unclebeamis]

Yeah this doesnt work sounds like shit

[uhoh2495]

the sound makes me want to go to sleep...but I am not saying it's boring, it sounds like the music you would hear in a dream...it's nice...thanks for the vid, keep up the work.

[cuervodka]

Love that sound!How do you get that sitar-like resonance on the first instrument? I think it's got something to do with that "thing" on the upper end. How do you attach it? Thanks.

[RobertSHilton]

What you are hearing is mostly the sympathetics from the open strings kicking in. The extra resonator at the top is to pick up the inverse note on the other side of the slide. With it plugged in as it is you can't realy hear that sound. On the second instrument you can just hear it.

[cuervodka]

Thanks, and you're right. I ment "the sitar-like resonance" on the second instrument...don't know why I wrote "first" : )

[JimmyJoeLard]

As with two others commenting here, the sounds and appearances remind me of Harry Partch's music. Would this music be called microtonal? Is Partch an influence?

Anyway, congratulations.

[RobertSHilton]

Partch is one of my heroes. I don't try to copy him but he is a great inspiration. These two instruments have open strings that are tuned in non-western scales, but on the slide strings I spend a lot of time between the notes. I'm hoping to get videos of some of my other instruments up soon.

[werlanderson]

phisycodelic sound!

[madchops82]

the instruments sound cool...I wanna hear a groove though

[gairabad]

He should get a bass guitar or something for the groove, and then do a solo over it. Maybe use some exotic scale.

[gplayer234]

good ideas, however i dont care for most of the sounds they make. nice job though!

[josho160]

i dont like

[furubainuyuki]

haha cool.

[GreatRussianHellfire]

cooool. the first one sounds like a banjo/sitar!

[Ephitaph]

Soothing. n.n

[arbiterftw]

damn, how do u tune those things?

[RobertSHilton]

First one is tuned four slide strings are in an open minor chord with the two sets of open strings tuned in a harmonic minor scale in the fifth mode.

Second one is tuned 1st four bass strings D,F#,A,D - 6 slide strings D,Eb,G,A,Bb,D - 8 open strings D,Eb,F#,G,A,Bb,C#,D

[rakia66]

thats amazing!

[Gliabrant]

Robert S. Hilton Writes and Talks in third person.

[RobertSHilton]

What on earth are you talking about? I speak and write in first person like most people. Look at my previous comments.

[storekeeper80]

You just gotta luv this guy!!!! Awesome!!!! Leader of the Universe!!!

[urmom696985]

i gotta admit that sounds pretty kool

[metalrock99]

this music is wierd and sounds kind of satanic

its cool

[jukeboxdude]

They are cool... but they scare me.

[Jubireba]

YOU ARE THE BEST

[hspolomo18]

that was awesome. i love the sound, very foreign and exotic like. way cool. i love the second instrument. resembles an asian instrument i've seen in pictures.

and again, i love the sound! blows me away how awesome homemade instruments can sound with much talent.

[nahuelito2007]

cool!!, sounds good.. but i recomend you to try make a more funnyfull music.

[Rixxster]

My ears are bleeding if that was your mission well mission complete >.<

[Audioslave6556]

OMFG MY EARS MYYY EAARRRSSS

[Preston84]

Brilliant, really like the feel of these instruments - very mythical.

[beenmean]

Your music takes me on a journey in time, back to my youth a spiritual time. Our days were filled with music of ravi shankar and cannned heat and quicksilver messenger service and jefferson airplane and I can't forget donovan all beautiful music. thanks

[Supabean0]

xr40 you have to respect his music tho i think its ok. Well its amazing what sounds u can make out of it

[xr40]

This guy sucks

[Nater711]

How many strings is that? What tunings do u use?

[RobertSHilton]

The first instrtument has 20 strings. The center 4 are an open minor chord 1, 3, 5, 8. The two groups of 8 strings are tuned in a harmonic minor scale in the fifth mode.

The second instrument has 18 strings in 3 groups. The 4 bass strings D,F#,A,D. The 6 slide strings D,Eflat,G,A,Bflat,D. The 8 open strings D,Eflat, F#,G,A,Bflat,C#,D.

[devilwillcryle]

It looks cool, but what's the point of it if you can't barely play any song beside some random and weird tones?

[sandry14]

Hilton?

[AlexxxF5]

Great instrument. :D

[TimePeaceJam]

way cool....i'm inspired to continue to create..check out the majik box at timepeacejam here on y-tube

[legoal2]

that is cool (i am stunned into silance)

[philxbx]

Wow!!! They sound great and look amazing!!! Love the mix of wood and metal!!!!

[mustard333335]

amazing and very creative

[BlueCollarTweeker]

you are amazing

[hamsterpatroll]

dude!!!!! AMAZING

[nobogroll]

you been living by that junkyard to long

[RobertSHilton]

The world is my junkyard.

[AnOldMan]

hey that's really cool. I'd love to see some of your other instruments.

[RobertSHilton]

Thanks. I'm planning to make some video clips of some of my other pieces when I have some time. You can see in the background of this video a horn which uses two tea kettles and a series of springs to make some unusual sounds.

[pablotedeath]

wow, that actually sounds like a citar, great job, try to do more arpeggios.

congrats.

[oromuisca]

Robert Fripp of the group King Crimson made his own too! (Frippertonics) I'm all for it! Great work guys!!

[RobertSHilton]

I never heard Fripp's Frippertronics. Thanks for telling me about it. 1979 loops and effects with TAPE. I always loved King Crimson, but I hadn't ever seen Fripp's purely exirimental side. It's awesome!

[oromuisca]

look for Robert Fripp in you tube & there's a clip of him introducing his frippertronics

[RobertSHilton]

Yeah, I've checked out Robert Fripp's Frippertronics.

Fripp's guitar playing and experimentation were always way ahead of his time.

[RobertSHilton]

I just looked back thrugh these comments and found that you were the one to turn me on to Robert Fripp's Frippertronics about two months ago.

It makes me want to experiment with looping.

Thanks again.

[jonathaneve]

This is absolutely excellent, I love that eastern sound.

[morrison1991]

amazing

[videopirate]

it's a steampunk sitar, dead brilliant!

[Marth09]

This is awesome!

[LeePrinceValiant]

It's... brilliant!!! And rather inspiring for my writing.

[467kamagong]

what a noise!! i can't stand it!!

[addersadder]

still, it IS homemade, bet you couldnt made sumthin lyk this....

[Nuuzo]

so much strings :O

[iownyou1230]

musical genius

[gpeddino]

Amazing! They sound quite precisely like a sitar and a koto.

[MyfriendFrank02760]

this guy is insanely genius...

[neeber12]

Omg this is fuckin insane i want one of those... even tho i dont kno how to use it...

[Shiek07]

omfg, how the hell did you do that.?!!?!?! Insane =D

[teacozzy]

maaaad

[Luxyuz]

FREKING AWSOME

[Boozan]

gangsta

[psyed]

xD ganaste qleao

[lord0gore]

wow thats pretty sweet

[Awsomeman012]

china town, now thats prettay sweet!

[pianoyam]

kudos for creativity, but isn't it a bit like putting a car or couch in the middle of a piano?

[psyfertech]

your gonna win this contest the british dude started, i like to see someone take it serious, unlike some others, lol

[RobertSHilton]

The contest is already over. Search HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS RESULTS

[putmynamehere89]

and the winner is!!!  YOU!!!! :) niiice

[dbmrhi]

That music made me want to sit naked on a mountain and smoke hash.

[danydevil123]

your accent is f**cking sweet!

[CaptainHampeppers]

is that a gord banjo?

[RobertSHilton]

No gourd. The body is two stacked Fuji Film Canisters.

[kart600]

this guy is a maniac.

respect.

[mewmewichigomomomiya]

mii like, i think u should win too :3

[moseley101]

This guy has to win hands down. respect

[RobertSHilton]

Thanks moseley 101.

It's been fun checking out what people came up with. I've been making instruments since 1974 so I have many more. Maybe when I get time I'll video some others to share with the You Tube Community

The contest is now over. Search HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS RESULTS

[sabotagethefool]

Far too clashy and off for my liking >_<

[villageidiotandahalf]

that was a tottaly freggin awesome.

[reichmarshall]

Wow! Didn't Spock play one of those?

[cancampus]

holy! never seen anything like it.

[poynter14]

m8 u r so a stupid twat get out have FUN! and live lif3 its alot better than playin music OK? right back

[broadcastingme]

music creates a lot of the creativity in our lives. Not many things are better than a homemade instrument!

[poynter14]

lol play a game on the pc or go play soccer (football)

[broadcastingme]

Why not? Just, in my opinion, everything is music, or relates to music....

[FILTHYFAKE]

i neeeeeeeed curry.. right now!

[Codackussell]

This is incredible! Where can I get one?!?!?! HAHA.

[BlindMesiah]

Man, that's like the most haunting sound. That's the kind of thing that like might kick off a Godsmack albu or something.

[FUCKYOUYOUPEICEOFSHI]

kind of a dark sound to it.. spooky but amazingly made GOOD JOB!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[deahisomos]

You are just great.

[adam14212]

nice sitar

[PickSomethingAlready]

it sounds so exotic!

[bobofstyx]

Bloody amazing.

[supressorgrid]

Now i know where my right front hubcap got off to!

[Clanmemberkalvin]

freaking cool.

[Zodiak1284]

absolutely incredible im completely stunned i can not imagine the work you put into this it is absolutely an amazing craft

[mrfoutz]

that thing scares me and so does the music. but its cool. search mr. oasis

[essi111]

Omg, that's... amazing!

[nutshell88]

this would be the music if you were stuck in a maze forever lol.

[semco]

nutshell88

LOL YEAH, i was thinking the exact same thing dude :)

[stevenkoehler]

Awesome!

[kjigmond]

One of the better entries I've seen

[TheBoomTube]

amazing!!!

[peas1my1life]

huh, wow !