Crumhorns

[JonFrumTheFirst]

Well that was interesting!

[HopefulSaint]

Kazoo...?



[FakeSidewalks]

One chord! Bahaha.

[waislandres]

With music like that I can understand how royalty ruled the masses.

[LarsGunblade]

Now that the crumhorn has become a part of every orchestra, it 's nice to see its humble beginnings. ;-)

[allengarvin]

Learn a little about Renaissance tuning. The fifths sound *terrible* here. The tabor just makes things worse. It takes care to get crumhorns in tune. These probably pulled them straight from the case and started playing them.

[vacuumlover1]

the bass one sounds and looks like a bass clarinet o.o

[ferociousgumby]

I just love this, as it spookily recreates mediieval music and takes you there. The sounds are much more edgy and buzzy. Wish this were much longer.

[animationdude56]

crumhorns were used in the music of "Doctor Who and the Silurians".

[Scimonetti]

I live in an apartment. My next door neighbor is a professional cromhorn player. He has has Selmer Mk VI contra-bass crumborn with a Shure Beta 98 wireless mic and a Vox Wah Wah. They sound great over a 300w Marshal amp. He practices Giant Steps lot. The chicks really dig it.

[tastyhorses]

Terry Prohaska once described a krumhorn as a very sophisticated kazoo.

[BritMiss]

@tastyhorses LOL!

[IAmTheAce5]

that sounds from the old movie "Island at the Top of the World" :O

[DeeSwizzle]

Oh my! At least I can say I heard one.

[Zastrava]

Probably the most amazing song I've ever heard.

[jpstenino]

Wonderful harmonic series coming out of those crumhorns. Much fun !!!

[beaglemanzzz]

I think the out of tuney ness adds to the character of the sound, It's kind of fitting

[LatiasDita]

Yup, that's what' used in the FFCC track "Goblin's Lair."

[SpocksAss]

youve heard of a flock of seagulls....this is a frigin' flock of geese that need an enema...what a piss-poor sound....i fart in tune better than these sorry bastards

[Geskleithron]

Well, I don't mind if they're not perfectly tuned. In my ears, it still sounds great!

[crazyclarinetplayer]

They are probably tuned to different frequencies from different time periods, nice playing anyway!

[anusmcfee99]

Continuing the tradition of misrepresenting early music as a set of lousey, out-of-tune performances on odd instruments by people who couldn't get into the band.....

[Envergure]

It sounds a lot like that thing where you cut two slits in the end of a drinking straw.

[deqcha84]

tuned to which reference??

[thebluevacuum]

When squidward is havin a bad day.

[5botball]

actually in that time the standard tuning was more like 443 or something like that.

[endlessfathom]

@5botball Actually, each different area had a different standard pitch depending on the organ in the city. The modern accepted tuning for early music is 415, but some places in France are believed to go another half step lower.

[jgrenhart]

This is crumtastic

[Kenzamaka]

This reminds me of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. Good times.

[katakotia3]

@Kenzamaka That's how I found this video! Reading about Kumi Tanioka's work on the soundtrack, it mentioned many instruments such as the crumhorn.

[Phyoomz]

LMMFAo!!! BRAVO!

[lloydwoolf]

Fake.

[johnnylifelive]

Im Maien?

[ternitamas]

TUNING!!! PLEAAAASE!

[dolofonos]

@lilythepink123 I believe pieguyfry22 was making a joke regarding the similar crook-shape of the two reeded instruments and not a serious comment of ancestry and tone.

[Thietmar]

remember gryphon the only band using krummhörner for their music.

1977-1981

[EraiGhaell]

@Thietmar Actually, I believe Dead can Dance uses it as well (I may be wrong, but this is the piece of music I associate with a crumhorn: watch?v=AcmpBCXOgVI )

[Cynabunnie]

Actually, nobody really has any idea why they're shaped like that.. many made nowadays don't have that hook on the end because it makes no difference to the sound it makes.

[CalemBendell]

@Cynabunnie I was told that the curve was added on nearly when the instrument was first created as decoration. The courts thought the instrument too plain, especially when played next to instruments like the decorated sacbuts or bagpipes.

The end was steamed and pulled into a curve and the name crumhorn comes from it (curved horn).

That's what I read anyway.

[pieguyfry22]

might these be the predecessor to the saxophone? :D

[bigmandrel]

Totaly cool! Makes me want to shout "more wine!"

[synthwerk]

@bigmandrel It also makes me feel I can have any one of them beheaded for playing out of tune.

[CalemBendell]

FFCC!!!! :D absolutely going to talk about FFCC when I present my powerpoint on crumhorns lol

[BoredChemist]

@CalemBendell i was thinking the exact same thing when i heard this

[losatta123]

whoa! it must be the instruments used in magi is everthing final fantasy song YAY!

[CharlieHuang]

It is used for many of the FFCC songs.

[rm2kmidi]

yep! They use a lot of crumhorns in the FF:CC soundtrack. I love Magi is Everything. Best track in the whole game!

[Fnidner]

is the string a hurdy gurdy or a warr?

[vacuumlover1]

the low one sounds like a bass clarinet!

[theteamawesome4]

Its so fantastically medieval.

[EvangelionFan]

as wierd as it sounds its a very nice sound XD i wanna get a band together and play some hurdy gurdies and crumhorns XD sounds wierd but i like the midieval styleized music

[CaptainSiberia]

I like crumhorns. Few instruments give you such a distinct buzz. Nothing subtle about a crumhorn. Kinda like a sawtooth wave from a synthesizer. I think they're about due for a renaissance of their own. But yes, these ones needed to be tuned.

[dolofonos]

It's but a demonstration; I see little invitation of such criticisms.

[nathanielbagshot]

They sound as bad as they look.

[Ntalikeris666]

LOL

[opus88888]

Your aesthetics is superb.

[doumkatek]

Hehe, well I love it!

[Masamuneblader]

I wish this was done with some sense of intonation.

[Will170392]

oh my god - get those crumhorn's in tune!

[allengarvin]

Egad, yes. Crumhorns sound great when they hit those perfect 5ths together. Out of tune, they're just terrible.

[Will170392]

ah well, it's all made good because the guitarist knows so many chords.LOL

[rakashael]

@Will170392 guess we'll have to break out a shotgun. The only way I've known to get two reed-instrument players to stay in tune with each other is to shoot one. ^_^

I though I would say it was more the bass that was out of tune than the alto crumhorn.

[johnpettet]

lol sort of reminds me of a kazoo. i just found out these existed and wanted to hear what one sounded like it's good there are groups who do this kind of stuff =)

[66amantedelamusica99]

Crumhorns make me laugh...:D.

[JaredChacon]

Thats awesome. I love the Crumhorns