Andy Cohen plays the Marxophone

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Uploaded by on Nov 14, 2008

Accomplished folk performer Andy Cohen plays a tune on his newly acquired Marxophone which is a zither with an striker interface.

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  • Used in the song "Anna Molly" by Incubus

  • haha. The argument below is possible one of the funniest, and most innane, that i've ever seen on youtube. - And that's sayin a lot. - Brill, nice one lads!!

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  • @Ryanspeanuty used in the song alabama song

  • So cooool

  • That's a badass instrument. I love the sound.

  • Now that was SEXY!!!

  • "Amarillo Sleeps on my Pillow" by Fair to Midland.

    AWESOME SONG!

  • The marxophone was played backwards on Am I Awake? by They Might Be Giants. (Sorry if someone posted this already).

  • This thing sounds so epic on the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack!!

  • These have been used for eons going back to people like Henry Mancini ... nothing new under the sun.

  • Bat For Lashes uses one also....

  • Fleet Foxes have said they're using one of these on their new record.

  • Alabama Song! The Doors! Ray Manzarek played it! Far out!

  • also used on "Somesone's In The Wolf" by Queens of the Stone Age

  • somebody needs to make a tutorial vid on how to play the part in the "Incubus- Anna-Molly" video

  • Wow. Years ago, John Sebastian (of The Lovin' Spoonful) was doing a radio show here in L.A. called the Good Time Music Show. I remember one night he actually talked about the Marxophone because he used one on the song "She Is Still a Mystery," It was hard to picture from the way he described it and I've always wondered what it looked like. Thanks for sharing.

  • That's AMAZING! It sounds like a cross between a piano, dulcimer and set of bagpipes!

  • Wow! Absolutely fabulous music! I have never heard of that instrument before. Where does it originally come from? I love zither music and that reminds me a little of that kind of sounds. Greetings from Finland ;)

  • BEAUTIFUL!

    How do you amplify it? Is there a way to install wiring and an output or does it have to be mic'd?

    Also, it seems like one of those that's never quite in tune, is that right?

  • Lovely instrument.

  • This sounds so full and beautiful.

  • Love it. How old is that instrument?

  • That's a great instrument! Thanks for sharing!

  • I WANT ONE!!!

  • Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More" There are lots of versions of it on YouTube - James Taylor, Maura O'Connell, Kate & Anna McCarrigle, Nanci Griffith, Laura Love, & Bruce Springsteen, to name a few.

  • Sounds an awful lot like a gospel song, but I can't place it right off the top of my head.

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