Like a glass harmonica but with chalkboards and teeth.

@paullambert7840

8 жыл бұрын

+Evan J I think your comparison is completely unfair but it made me laugh (in fact, I'm still chuckling at it as I write this), so you get a thumbs-up to your comment. (...still giggling).

@wizardmix

8 жыл бұрын

Paul Lambert :) I actually like the way it sounds.

@LesterSmith

8 жыл бұрын

+Evan J Damn! I almost snorted hummus and chips out my nose reading that. :D

@paullambert7840

8 жыл бұрын

Lester Smith I know, right? It's hilarious.

@alphonsbretagne8468

8 жыл бұрын

+Evan J Made me laughing so hard! Thank you!

Good lord. It like the essence of human sorrow in an instrument. The eerie sharp vibrato adds so much more empathy to the notes. Almost as if it was a last breath.

@redraven24

6 жыл бұрын

This is the most accurate and most poetic comment on here. And I totally agree...it does sound like a sorrowful last breath in the form of a song. Which to my melancholy artist's heart sounds deeply beautiful. Thanks for commenting!

@WichyBaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

😐🤢

@MikeyLikey95

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... somebody definitely put a human soul in this instrument.

@jokestermasteroflaughter7754

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeyLikey95 Yea it’s screaming in anguish and misery

@LeakyJAZZ

2 жыл бұрын

it's not vibrato, it's a harmonic

Sounds like a bagpipe trying to be a string instrument😂😂

@777fiddlekrazy

7 жыл бұрын

the intonation is off!

@Raxerm

7 жыл бұрын

I hear that too, but I feel like it just adds to a dissonans that still gets resolved occassionally at the tones that happen to be better in tune with eachother

@pablitoandsons

7 жыл бұрын

you didnt understand the joke

@EadsJasper

7 жыл бұрын

lmao good one

@KarMa-lx6oq

7 жыл бұрын

LOLOLOLOL. No offense, but maybe a accordian instead.

That's the most terrifying sounding instrument ever.

@sIpoolguy

8 жыл бұрын

record previously held by the waterphone lol

@jorgesebastian1262

8 жыл бұрын

I think it is beautiful

@Blitzentine

7 жыл бұрын

I still think the waterphone holds it. That or Justin Beiber's vocal chords.

@ZethKeeper

7 жыл бұрын

Try octobass.

@Tryacc100

7 жыл бұрын

uhhh apprehension engine?

This is what the apocalypse sounds like. What a dark instrument.

@djeze6333

8 жыл бұрын

+RADIOACTIVEBUNY BACH- TOCCATA AND FUGUE I THINK HE SHOULD PLAY THAT SONG!!!!!!!!!!

@RubyDragon-ed8xx

8 жыл бұрын

+DJ EZE Oh come on m8 lol

@RubyDragon-ed8xx

8 жыл бұрын

+DJ EZE I can slightly agree with you on that there

@alexisreichenbach3180

4 жыл бұрын

Listen to the Waterphone. It’s way worser.

@lsswappedcessna

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I was just thinking this gave me a post-apocalyptic bayou feeling.

Hurdy Gurdy from hell

@gzvchan7596

8 жыл бұрын

tru dat

@nobaloneymahoney7940

7 жыл бұрын

well the name of the song is, The Devil May Call

@yamagishisan

7 жыл бұрын

ha

@absolutcabbagery3661

5 жыл бұрын

A helldy gurdey if you will

@lord21112

4 жыл бұрын

Hi 2020

We're one step closer to having an entire orchestra composed of hurdy gurdys. We just need something deeper than the Wheelharp, and something slightly higher pitched than the normal hurdy gurdy.

@shaunweiss8949

2 жыл бұрын

Viola organista. It is like an entire bowed string section as a piano.

@jamesrosewell9081

7 ай бұрын

I think my ears would bleed

@calliopeshif7581

5 ай бұрын

​@@jamesrosewell9081from the sheer beauty of it all?

This could literally be an instrument used to describe a looming monster or a deity with not the best intentions or when something horrible is unfolding. _I love it._

Eerily beautiful. I see a lot of negative comments about the instrument, but it's really a soulful, sad, elegant sound.

@bveracka

8 жыл бұрын

+SvartSjel I absolutely agree there. He's playing in C minor and the instrument obviously lends itself to eerie minor key parts. If you tried to play a song in C major like Beethoven's 9th, your opinion would differ.

@doyoulikeveggies

8 жыл бұрын

>Beethoven's 9th >C major ?????

@bveracka

8 жыл бұрын

Dylan (laughs) Sorry about that confusion! I should've just said "any major key piece" as this instrument obviously lends itself to 'darker' sounding pieces. I *believe* I confused #9 with the 8th symphony. I don't listen to classical music as often as I once did, and it's been many years since music appreciation classes I'm in a world/ethnic/cultural music phase these past few years.

@doyoulikeveggies

8 жыл бұрын

*F major

@indigoskywalker

Жыл бұрын

absolutely, it is perfect for the score

this thing sounds like an orchestra of tortured violins playing a lullaby for Mephistopheles it's just abhorrent and screechy and discordant I love it.

@thegod.-.1550

7 жыл бұрын

Making-a-Mulligan boi

@Ucceah

6 жыл бұрын

it's quite posssibly the rarest, most demanding, and least pleassant string instrument out there.

@whalesong999

5 жыл бұрын

Like cellos who are suffering some depression .....

@heathermiller6046

4 жыл бұрын

@Making-a-Mulligan That made me laugh so hard 😄 I love the description

@lord21112

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there it is 2020

9 years later I keep coming back to this, it's a hauntingly beautiful piece, on a hauntingly beautiful instrument.

@TheSCIOnce

Жыл бұрын

I find myself back here every couple of months. It almost haunts me I adore it.

how to be hated by your neighbors 101

@frenkdeboniuss1412

5 ай бұрын

😅

@averagecornenjoyer6348

5 ай бұрын

or loved :)

Everybody in the comments is hating the sound of this instrument, but I think it's beautiful.

@SuperStev007

7 жыл бұрын

agreed

@thatonethattalksalot7656

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Markovich it's the way the guy is playing it that is making everyone hate it! if he played something sad or beautiful out of this thing then people would really appreciate it!

@User-xn8cx

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Markovich yea it's really cool sounding instrumental very unique

@PhoenyxRysing

7 жыл бұрын

It is really pretty...Rather dark and sorrowful, but it could just be what he's playing. Reminds me a bit of 'The Impossible Planet' form Doctor Who.

@zorakandbrac

7 жыл бұрын

Dani Stevens unique doesn't necessarily mean good.

This sounds like someone choking on a harmonica. I love it!

I NEED ONE. There's something beautiful about how ugly it sounds

@zorakandbrac

7 жыл бұрын

Belladonna Nightshade 2edgy4me

@LoverOfManTits

3 жыл бұрын

@@zorakandbrac wow you're so funny

@JohnBomboy

6 ай бұрын

Idk if you're still around. But I genuinely love people like you. I personally could barely stand it. But that's just me and that's okay. The fact there's people out there that can appreciate these and other kinds of things is what keeps creativity going. God knows I make music and sounds people would find grotesque. So I can't say this instrument is bad. Only that I'm not a fan. But good on you, man. Follow that joy and happiness. 👍

I love how dark it sounds

That would be magnificent incidental music for a horror film...

It sounds awefull!, where can i get one?

@toxichipnotic9943

8 жыл бұрын

+Fixti0n Some off music stores will carry them or you can find a person to make a custom one. Ive always loved the hauntingly horrific beauty a wheelharp can bestow into ones soul, its always made me calm :)

@happypiano4810

3 жыл бұрын

Ha!

Bagpipes are angelic compared to this sound.

@moonrazk

7 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that if he practiced more a better sound would come out of it.

@VibeSensational

7 жыл бұрын

gimmie

@yeetman4953

7 жыл бұрын

gantmj weelharp with distortions would sound metal as all hell

@scottjampa6374

7 жыл бұрын

@Die Please- Plug it into a Sunn Model T and see what happens

@gusjohnnson9641

7 жыл бұрын

Why does everyone hate on the bagpipe :( I play the bagpipes and I love it.

I'm torn between the coolness of this unique instrument and the imagination it took to create, and the sound that it makes. Which, honestly, has dethroned Bagpipes as the most nerve grindingly uncomfortable noise man has made. ;-)

@Brok3nC4rrot

7 жыл бұрын

you take that back about bagpipes

@Omfgwhtavid

7 жыл бұрын

bagpipes are shit

@danieljones23

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, if you listen to some other recordings of music on this instrument, it is actually quite beautiful. I think it may sound terrible here because of the chords he uses, and probably the way he is playing it. After all, the piece he is playing is the theme from "Devil May Call," so it is entirely probable that he is playing that way on purpose.

@fujiyokocookiecutter

7 жыл бұрын

I think it just needs more rosin.

@DrHokeyPokey

7 жыл бұрын

It's like the opposite of "if it's stupid and it works..."

It's like they took the screeching blackboard sounds and made a melody.

@Kevn3000

9 жыл бұрын

It kind of scares me a little bit actually

@MoviMakr

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin R. Serrano It sounds like a burning gypsy caravan.

@Kevn3000

8 жыл бұрын

I have no idea what a gypsy caravan is or what it sounds like so I can't compare.

@markpettigrew3482

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin R. Serrano -- I can see why the demo is given by a film composer. From Wikipedia: The wheelharp is a musical instrument with bowed strings controlled by a keyboard and foot-controlled motor, similar to Leonardo da Vinci's Viola organista, a keyboard-operated string instrument for continuously sounding strings by rubbing the strings with spinning wheels, powered by a treadle controlled by one foot of the musician. Created by Jon Jones and Mitchell Manger, the wheelharp debuted at the 2013 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. According to the Wall Street Journal, it "looks and works like a cross between a harpsichord and a hurdy-gurdy: a motor driven wheel spins, rubbing against strings when the player depresses a key."

@MoviMakr

8 жыл бұрын

Kevin R. Serrano A caravan is a group of people traveling in mobile homes. Gypsies tend to enjoy music with accordions and fiddles. My simile was comparing the sound of those burning instruments and the screams of people to the sound of this instrument.

Interesting instrument! Although limited in dynamic and vibrato control you gain essentially an entire string quartet in one instrument. It also has a bellow quality to it without being a wind instrument which is cool

@ludwigvonbeethoven2105

7 ай бұрын

Cool to have seen you here

Everyone hating on the instrument because it doesn't sound perfect and clear. Why would we need another instrument that can do that? We have plenty of them already.

@hezechiahjones8365

7 жыл бұрын

But we also don't need a music that sounds like scraping a chalkboard.

@BobertJunior1025

7 жыл бұрын

crazyguywithasword Maybe you dont.

@Jack-rn3rm

7 жыл бұрын

Instruments should range from clear sounding to scratchy and metallic. It's all subjective and will change from time to time, from genre to genre.

@arthasmenethil9605

7 жыл бұрын

Music is supposed to be beautiful. This isn't. It's a cool idea but it just doesn't SOUND good. This sounds like dragging 1.000.000 cats down a highway, it's horrendous.

@Jack-rn3rm

7 жыл бұрын

Saying music is supposed to be beautiful is such a shallow and uneducated way of viewing music. Music is meant to invoke feeling. Do you find a horror score beautiful? Music sets the mood. Whether it is horrendous or calming, Music being beautiful is a very western idea anyway, if you have ever heard music from other areas of the world you will find they don't sound as beautiful to you. To them, its the other way around.

it would sound great for darker stuff, but I don't think you could make it sound elegant.

@chaejuru8596

7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget, it was build by hand. This could be the beginning of an elegant instrument. But god damn, does it sound ugly! lol

@nater1625

7 жыл бұрын

Excuse me? This sounds like the things used to make the Fallout 4 soundtrack, which was absolute fantastic.

@samwallaceart288

7 жыл бұрын

This would go good in a Tim Burton movie

@thatonethattalksalot7656

7 жыл бұрын

Moo Rooster and it would sound great for a beautiful wedding song too! yeah!!

@Satchmoeddie

7 жыл бұрын

That depends on who you are marrying. Anyone marrying my ex, and I'll come and play for free!

I'm afraid the sound this instrument produces brings back memories of the 'music' produced by the junior school orchestra my children used to play in...

Every atmospheric black metal intro needs this

what a painful instrument..

@VibeSensational

7 жыл бұрын

haha i get it.. because it's like depressing and stuff

@piercethepotato7287

7 жыл бұрын

k.

@Greg07623

7 жыл бұрын

The Fat Punisher: Obviously you never heard my Concerto for Wheelharp and Yoko Ono. It's said that one hearing would drive people to jump off the nearest bridge as it sounded a squeaking chalkboard accompanied by a bag of cats being rapidly twirled around.

@slmeyers464

7 жыл бұрын

Okay, you deserve many, many more thumbs up for that. Concerto for Wheelharp and Yoko Ono! I have a very shrill ol' rescue Turkish Angora who would like to be first chair for your bag of cats.

@TheFatPunisher

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've heard of Yoko Ono...unfortunately

It sounds like the pain of every living creature being turned into a song, it's nothing less than extraordinary

I personally like it. Of course, it may not be the instrument of choice for most songs, but things dark and creepy, this would work wonders for.

@thatonethattalksalot7656

7 жыл бұрын

Brittany McCarty this instrument would be best to play for any theme. not just for the darksided creepy and eirieness, but this would definitely replace bagpipe memorials soon!! it just depends on the touch of its player!

@williamdevlin5233

7 жыл бұрын

A lot less portable than bagpipes.

This needs to be used in some horror games/movies. Lovely, creepy, eerie, haunting. Love it.

It sounds like a cross between a hurdy-gurdy and a nyckelharpa. It also reminds me of an early synth, though electronica could never quite replicate the sound of a good analogue instrument. Wonderful.

It's beautiful, it's a very emotional instrument. It's like it's telling a story, it somehow just connects with your mind to create this deep pain filled story that could bring you to tears and leave you without any words for explanation. I love the sound

holy shit, i love the sound, so atmospheric

sounds like a string quartet trying to play after being pushed off of the dock

@keepyourshoesathedoor

8 жыл бұрын

Drowning on the titanic.

I love the sounds it’s so screechy like an old tortured machine that is desperately trying its hardest to play its melody and share its message, despite the roughness and decay

Oh my god that instrument is so terrifying that its amazing! I WANT IT!!!

Around 1490, Leonardo da Vinci designed such a wheel stringed instrument played by a keyboard that he called 'Viola organista'. (violin-organ). However, it was unsure he could really built what he only drew. .In 1600, the german engineer Hans Hayden built its look like harpsichord 'geigenwerk' (violin machine) where the strings of a harpsichord were gathered by groups of 8 over separate bridges and wheels. All the wheels were moved simultaneously by a rocking pedal. When a key is pressed, a lever pull down the related string in contact with the related rotating wheel. A historical copy built in 1625 by the spanish monk Fray Raymundo Truchado is on exhibition at the Royal Museum of musical instruments in Brussel (Belgium). In our times the Japaneese maker Akio Obuchi started to build and improve the Geigenwerk in the 1990's. His website included a full explanation and history about this instrument; Two years ago a polish harpsichordist built successfully such a Geigenwerk with which he gave public concerts.

@mq9demo

9 жыл бұрын

How come the only nationality you forgot to capitalize was Polish?

@frenchiecocorico1

9 жыл бұрын

Matthew Latawiec Because M.Slawomir Zubrzycki's Viola Organista copy it's not an important step in the history of this instrument but an outdated and late devellopment like this Wheelharp which aren't original inventions. Here below is the link of M Zubrzycki website where he explained the conditions of his rebuilding copy. You could notice that he was inspired by: I- Hans Hayden Viola Organista from 1575 but depicted in Michael Praetorius Syngtama Musicum published in 1600, II- the Viola Celi built by Fray Raymundo Truchado in 1625 now on exhibition at the Royal Museum of musical instruments in Brussels, III- above all by the description of the Viola Organista copy from Hans Hayden model that the polish Jan Jarmuciewicz published in the 1880's. For my own point of view the most important was the revival of this instrument M Akio Obuchi has done in the modern times from 1993 www.zubrzycki.art.pl/Viola%20Organista_En.htm .

Sounds like a distorted accordion layered with a cello to my layman's ears. Great sound!

@haleygregg674

9 жыл бұрын

Well it could be a cello or a base in different areas of the song

It's terrifying but beautiful.

I really like the general vibe of this instrument. Its "tortured" sound adds a level of melancholic depth I've been searching for in bizarre instruments for uears now.

That instrument would be soo perfect for some of those psychological horror / terror types of productions. I'm almost sure Stephen King would have a use for one in his movies. Very cool in it's own right.

Like a square-waved synth.

@shiningarmor2838

7 жыл бұрын

John Wayne I thought it was closer to a saw wave

@TheNavalAviator

7 жыл бұрын

Shining Armor Right!

That blew me away. That has to be one of the most amazing sounds produced by an instrument...

LOVE IT!!! Like wind blowing across an amazing landscape of exposed souls yearning to speak. Fabulous!!!

Sounds awesome! Definitely needs more rosin and new strings, but this instrument is amazing and could be very beautiful. Very creative!

"Hey, I kinda got my hands full, and i have to be at the recital hall in, like, 5 minutes. Would you do me a huge favor and tune my whee..." "Hell no."

I've never heard an instrument so haunting and beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Fabulous! Thanks for posting and greetings from Portugal.

The melody underneath is so beautiful. But it sounds so grating.

Great for horror shows... the actors and the audience would simply beg for death after being subjected to it for more than a few minutes.

@amirehosseyni

7 жыл бұрын

Also very deep spiritual eastern asian scenes ! ^_^

@amirehosseyni

7 жыл бұрын

Really ? That much XD ?

Very intriguing, frightening somehow and fascinating sound. I love this. Thank you !

I can't imagine this being a pleasurable instrument to listen to, but surely has a place in horror movie's background music/sounds.

Would make a great horror/sci-fi discovery movie

Fantastic instrument! Have to say the composition didn't do it justice at all, I think so many more awesome sounds could have been made with it, but oh well.

@zee339

7 жыл бұрын

they burned the harp to the ground after this video, so now we will never know.

@neilbradley9035

7 жыл бұрын

seriously?

@zee339

7 жыл бұрын

Neil Bradley oh yes!

@bastidepp2

6 жыл бұрын

oh those darn humans!

@hizkias2679

6 жыл бұрын

asdfghjkl i wasn't expecting to see you here, you're one of my favorite composers!

For a film score this would be perfect which is what it was created for. I'm not sure why so many people dislike it, it is unnerving on purpose, and does a brilliant job at doing what it was made for.

I love this. I can imagine this being used well in a piece where you want something to sound both eerie and heartrending. Dark, yes, but beautiful in its own unpolished way.

For all of you out there complaining about how "harsh" and "creepy" this instrument sounds, open up your brain and think for a second. This instrument is supposed to sound like this. It's meant to sound medieval and rustic. So maybe next time before you post how harsh it sounds, remember that maybe it's intended for a reason.

@chaimewhhuguinssh2771

6 жыл бұрын

Medieval music is actually pretty beautiful. It's a fun idea but it sounds bad.

oh yeah,i almost forgot. YOUR DADS GOING TO BE PISSED when he sees what you did to his piano

@jennamiles7974

3 жыл бұрын

XD

Damn. That's fantastic! Love the sound. Archaic and apocalyptic.

I feel like this is the type of instrument that befits a surreal and somber psychological thriller. It's not there to soothe or comfort, but to accentuate an air of apathetic dread, and an atmosphere of one long agonisingly slow discord. Akin to a horrible train wreck happening only in the barest increments that could last centuries. Also, it reminds me of _Everywhere at the End of Time._

can you imagine one of these in every home parlor used for family sing a longs?

@LuisEduardoGalindo

8 жыл бұрын

+J.R. Zippie yes interesting, but the image i get is that of Superman Bizzaro World like...

Holy WOW!

NicholasPikeMusic It's basically a Bowed Harpsichord, it has Reverse Colored Keys (Black Naturals & White Sharps).

That creates such an eerie sound, pretty cool.

This sounds like it's something someone listening to a soundtrack would have a difficult time identifying. To anyone saying it sounds terrible, this piece seems to have been written to have a horror edge; find other videos of the Wheelharp, and it sounds like a deep bass cello or other bowed string instrument.

Sounds so fucking Godspeed you! Black emperor.

what a mysterious and magical sounding instrument.. I love this. could hear it more often.

how they made ufo sound in movies. but seriously, coolest stringed instrument ive seen. its like a giant hurdy gurdy

Its good, But Does it Djent?

@shiningarmor2838

7 жыл бұрын

diego ayala It goes to drop C, maybe

@josephbrandenburg4373

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, drop C don't djent. Try more like double-drop Q.

@rodrigomacias

7 жыл бұрын

A meshuggah song with this instrument would be sick!

the best Theme sound for horror movies 😀

I've just found a new favorite instrument.

I absolutely love it, its like something inside my heart is screeching to come out

i am in a great deal of pain

@TheDeffend

7 жыл бұрын

but it's certainly a beautiful piece of machinery

@bobu5213

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't really like the song he chose either.

Sounds like nightmares.

never have i heart an instrument that capture minor key so much

I've only heard this kind of sound from certain digital synthesizers. Fascinating to see an acoustic instrument produce it.

The Witcher 4 , Should use this for creating its theme music

Wasn't that used in some of Fallout 4 soundtrack? Minutemen songs. I really love how it sounds!

Absolutely beautiful sound, I love it!

Wow, I love that distorted, ever-so-slightly sinister sound of it! Absolutely fascinating, and atmospheric as all get-out!

thats such a beutifull sounding instrument man that gave me shivers

So how long will it be for a metal band to start playing with one of these?

i actually find this piece quite charming, in its own way. a haunting, melancholy song, accompanied by the genuine and organic sound of the instrument. chilling, almost.

I love this instrument, it's amazing ! :o

I honestly kind of like the sound.

Reminds me of Assassination of Jesse James

Beautiful!!

This is one of the coolest instruments I've seen in a long time!

Talk about a niche instrument lol.

@2nd3rd1st

7 жыл бұрын

This one? Try getting this big boy into any niche.

Wheelharp hero anyone?

🌲🍀🐾🦉Wheelharp🤔,never knew this existed😯. Thank's for the Enlightenment😉🦉🐾🍀🌲.

i love this so much! ahh the sound!!

what does hans zimmer have to say about this instrument?

@smiljanicn

10 жыл бұрын

Hi would say, "I can do better with my Access Virus" lol

My ears are bleeding a lil

@isetta4083

3 жыл бұрын

Good.

So wonderful...

Beautifully poetic sound. I love it.

Well, that is just an annoying sound. Sounds like something the devil invented to annoy people. He is such a jerk.

@shankaravarma118

7 жыл бұрын

Oh that devil

@bournemouthlass

7 жыл бұрын

But he does get all the best tunes. :-)

@yongewok

3 жыл бұрын

just needs a low pass filter

Now we all know the reason guitars are popular and that thing is not.

@isetta4083

3 жыл бұрын

Because this is dark and sorrowful and isn't good for shitty pop and overplayed rock?

Sounds awesome!

@ypaexio4263

8 жыл бұрын

...

Its tearing my soul apart slowly but shurely.