Bowed Piano.

For the past 30 years, Stephen Scott has been exploring, obsessing over, and pushing the sound of the piano far beyond its traditional boundaries, creating a new kind of instrument he calls the bowed piano.

It takes 10 musicians armed with fishing line, Popsicle sticks, and plumbing tape to play the bowed piano.

"The primary sound is produced by a bow of nylon fish-line, which is rosined, and that's just threaded under the piano string and across it. There's another kind of bow, which is a stick of wood which has horse hair affixed to it, and that's rubbed against the strings to produce a short, percussive sound."

From NPR: February 5, 2008
Feature titled, "The Bowed Piano: Fishing for a New Sound"

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• new
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[JorgeL721]

What is the name of the song playing through the first minute?

[dorfischer]

wow!!!!!!!!!

[toisabella]

thank you so much for sharing the tip!!

[art2liv4]

Somebody (sonnenberg) tipped me off to the fact that you can "watch in high quality" by adding &fmt=18 at the end of the URL of YouTube videos.

Definitely improves both look and sound, though it takes longer to load.

[ShockTheseTrees]

Not to mention it looks like shit ;__; Oh well...

[art2liv4]

Pretty cool, though the talking head were not synched at all.