Here is Benny from the Axis of Awesome playing a fantastic and complex version of Bohemian Rhapsody on melodica. That cannot have been easy with one hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWf122wHkw
Here is Benny from the Axis of Awesome playing a fantastic and complex version of Bohemian Rhapsody on melodica. That cannot have been easy with one hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWf122wHkw
I'm impressed for the effort,but it sounds terrible.
Didn't you want someone to post this :
Augustus Pablo
Augustus Pablo is the acknowledged world expert on melodica.
Here is the amazing Dubreq Stylophone
And here's the original 1960s stylophone with the Rolf Harris demo.
Last edited by PeterG; 11-15-2013 at 02:05 PM.
Well, it’s not a melodica, but it is a mouth-blown free-reed instrument...check 2:15 when the keyboardist breaks out the Hohner Claviola:
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
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o consagrar una propia estrella" --Alberto Felici
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^^^^
Sounds like a cross between the accordian and the melodica...
how does it work? why does he blow into it? Same principle as a pump organ or harmonium?
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
It is OK, for curiosity sake...but I can see my time put to better use than listening to that...
The first guy I think of when I hear "melodica" is Hermeto Pascoal.
The Hooters were the first thing to come to mind for me, too.
Loved that band in the 80s.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Why do I find myself slightly out of breath just watching these clips? ;-) LOL
While the blowing tube on a melodica replaced the bellows needed on accordions, bagpipes etc. here is basically the same type of sound from a concertina from the 1860s, but of course the bellows and the bass keys on a concertina allow for base notes and slide notes using the bellows.
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Joe Jackson plays some melodica as well.
I'm not sure wh it should be considered a toy instrument. It is used by professional musicians and if a melodica is a toy instrument, why isn't the mouth-organ?
Melodica? I'm thinking Alamaailman Vasarat!
@ 1:07 and onwards.
Last edited by Crystal Plumage; 11-19-2013 at 03:58 PM. Reason: typo
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I've heard Charles Hayward(Quiet Sun,Massacre,etc) play some tasty melodica.I can't find any clips to back this up.
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