Midi Steel Guitar?
Posted: 20 Jan 2007 9:49 am
A steel guitar concert in the Jungle. What next?
Aloha,
Don
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Posted: 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
A steel guitar concert in the Jungle. What next?
Aloha,
Don
Posted: 20 Jan 2007 2:23 pm
INteresting. Looks sort of like a cornfield also.
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 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.
Posted: 20 Jan 2007 7:50 pm
Don't know what it is, but it looks like they made him go outside to practice!
Posted: 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?
Posted: 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 ? 
Posted: 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!!! 
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 22 Jan 2007 12:24 pm
Sounded very cool, whatever it was.
Posted: 23 Jan 2007 8:20 am
It's the serial cable that made me cry Midi. Maybe it's just a very complex and musical mouse for his laptop.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.
Posted: 23 Jan 2007 11:21 am
Add a Lincoln, up on blocks, and it could have been my front yard.