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    Melodica

    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

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    I'm impressed for the effort,but it sounds terrible.

    Didn't you want someone to post this :

    Augustus Pablo


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    Augustus Pablo is the acknowledged world expert on melodica.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Modry Effekt View Post
    I'm impressed for the effort,but it sounds terrible.
    My thoughts exactly. It reminded me of those "Plastica" videos where they play Dream Theater and Rush on toy instruments and beer bottles. Congratulations, you can do it, despite it not being remotely listenable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThomasKDye View Post
    My thoughts exactly. It reminded me of those "Plastica" videos where they play Dream Theater and Rush on toy instruments and beer bottles. Congratulations, you can do it, despite it not being remotely listenable.
    8-bit music anyone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Modry Effekt View Post
    Didn't you want someone to post this :

    Augustus Pablo
    No, not really, simply because he is the expert. I thought Benny did really well. I thought it sounded great for what is essentially a toy. And I say that regardless of how good I know Pablo is. The melodica IS a toy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    8-bit music anyone?
    What like from the Megadrive (that's Genesis to you yank ) ?

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    No, not really, simply because he is the expert. I thought Benny did really well. I thought it sounded great for what is essentially a toy. And I say that regardless of how good I know Pablo is. The melodica IS a toy.
    Sorry.I just prefer Augustus Pablo sound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Modry Effekt View Post
    Sorry.I just prefer Augustus Pablo sound.
    Well, obviously, so do I. But that wasn't the point of the thread. Perhaps the thread title should have been musical toys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Well, obviously, so do I. But that wasn't the point of the thread. Perhaps the thread title should have been musical toys.
    I understood it now

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    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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    ^^^^

    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.

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    It is OK, for curiosity sake...but I can see my time put to better use than listening to that...

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    The first guy I think of when I hear "melodica" is Hermeto Pascoal.


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    The Hooters were the first thing to come to mind for me, too.

    Loved that band in the 80s.
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    Why do I find myself slightly out of breath just watching these clips? ;-) LOL

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    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?

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    Melodica? I'm thinking Alamaailman Vasarat!

    @ 1:07 and onwards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    Joe Jackson plays some melodica as well.
    And there's also...



    2:12 - 2:24.

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    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?
    I think it is.

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