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A Cool Instrument Hammer Dulcimer
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I got to see Rich Mullins in concert a few months before he died. I Almost bought a hammer dulcimer because of him, but I really don’t have that kind of talent or the patience it would take to learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq_ijfAEd9g
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Now watch Phillips and the Creation perform “Making Time” in 1966, followed by “Painter Man” in 1967. (Side note: Director Wes Anderson used “Making Time” in his 1998 film, Rushmore.)
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Yes, many others used a bow on an electric guitar before, including Jimi Page.
Jimmy Page explains how he ended up playing guitar with a violin bow
“And one of the violinists came to me one day and he said, ‘Have you ever considered playing a guitar with a bow?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t think it’ll work.’ Because the strings are uniformed wheres a violin is arched.
And he said ‘Well here’s my bow. Would you like to try?’ And I said ‘Absolutely.’ So I tried it and i could see there was massive potential. “After that I went and bought my own bow. But this fellow was the father of an actor David McCallum. ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ – that’s it!”
But was Page first rock star to do so? Not exactly. UK guitarist Eddie Phillips beat him to it by a few years, it seems. According to some sources, Phillips first took “bow to guitar string” in 1963 and as a member of the Mark Four in the mid-Sixties. That band evolved into the Creation—a respected yet still commonly overlooked Swinging Sixties London band.
Watch Page use the bow in 1967 as the Yardbirds perform “I’m Confused,” which would emerge two years later as Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused.” Below that, Page uses a bow at a 1970 Led Zeppelin show.
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And, just for a laugh or nine, watch Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) drag an entire violin across his guitar strings in This Is Spinal Tap. Note how he pauses to tune the violin, as if that makes a difference.
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Another cool instrument called the Chapman Stick
While my Guitar Gently Weeps.
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George Harrison It’s all too much from Yellow Submarine.
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Hey Joe, I’ve never seen a Chapman Stick before. Wow it sounds great. From the Dulcimer to electric guitar bow to the Chapman Stick, lot of cool ways for creating music. It’s like discovering new exotic animals you’ve never seen before, each so great. 🙂
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Hey Jung the best for last – The Singing bug and plays piano.
Soupy Sales and Alice Cooper click link.
Enjoy.
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