Midi Steel Guitar?

Chris Walke · Post by **Chris Walke** » 20 Jan 2007 9:49 am

What's THIS thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj_7OEQFEc

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 20 Jan 2007 12:28 pm

I don't know but it is interesting.

A steel guitar concert in the Jungle. What next?

Aloha,

Don

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 20 Jan 2007 2:23 pm

INteresting. Looks sort of like a cornfield also.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 20 Jan 2007 6:13 pm

Guitarra Havaiana?

Hmmm... ten strings, more jacks & switches than you can shake a stick at. Some kind of home or custom made instrument? I don't think it's midi. There's a power cord coming out of it...a built in amp perhaps?

Sounds pretty cool, though.

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 20 Jan 2007 6:59 pm

Given the Portuguese description and the background, I'd assume this was filmed in Brazil. I couldn't find a specific reference to Joaquim Santana and guitarra, though. Fascinating instrument, fascinating playing. It's amazing what people come up with when left to their own devices.

Kenneth Berrier · Post by **Kenneth Berrier** » 20 Jan 2007 7:50 pm

Don't know what it is, but it looks like they made him go outside to practice!

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 20 Jan 2007 8:24 pm

Brad, I'm not sure but I think Santana is a fairly common portuguese surname. Wouldn't guitarra be portuguese/spanish for guitar?

George Keoki Lake · Post by **George Keoki Lake** » 20 Jan 2007 10:00 pm

Really amazing the steel guitar innovations which come along ! I doubt it is MIDI but it is fascinating. I guess when they put that guy out in the jungle he must have lost his picks. I wonder....where in the jungle is the power source ?

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 21 Jan 2007 8:13 pm

The jungle setting must be for "ambiance" Sounds good, and a little unusual. No, that's not a corn field!!!

Mark Tomlinson · Post by **Mark Tomlinson** » 22 Jan 2007 10:27 am

What's even more funny, is that guy has been playing music in his overgrown garden for 37 years. Finally someone captured it on video without disturbing his performance. Such footage is rare. If you've ever been walking around and hearing hawaiian steel guitar riffs in your head, chances are this man is sitting behind the bushes playing just out of your sight. When you look for him even quickly, he will just disappear - but the music will keep playing.

The instrument looks like a Gibson 8-string in a custom enclosure. Looks like there's a bunch of electronics, and a serial cable attached.

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 22 Jan 2007 12:24 pm

Sounded very cool, whatever it was.

Chris Walke · Post by **Chris Walke** » 23 Jan 2007 8:20 am

Mark Tomlinson wrote:The instrument looks like a Gibson 8-string in a custom enclosure. Looks like there's a bunch of electronics, and a serial cable attached.

It's the serial cable that made me cry Midi. Maybe it's just a very complex and musical mouse for his laptop.

chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 23 Jan 2007 11:21 am

Add a Lincoln, up on blocks, and it could have been my front yard.