Strings drum

Strings drum

Inspiré du tambour du Béarn, cet instrument accompagne les flûtes, galoubets, fifres…

Deuxième vidéo ci-dessus : avec Arnaud Soidet à la guitare à trous !

Tout épicéa, ce tambour à cordes est équipé de 4 cordes de guitare, nylon ou acier, plusieurs accords possibles, un micro Piezzo et des mécaniques de guitare.

Clavero

Clavero

Cet instrument combine mes claves et mes gueros, en pin et frêne.

Filbass

Filbass

1 string, 1 mic: the filbass, ou “horse-bass”…!

A bass, an animal!? A fiddle (?? Drums! A saxophone? And when you mix all of them, here’s what you got… Isn’t it stunning?!

The body is made of limewood or rowan, the soundboard is made of curly walnut wood, the string tightener is made of elm, there’s a a piezo mic.

Shell

Shell

See the video below: here’s a demo of several small percussions made in the workshop : claves, shells, spoons…

Musical arc

Musical arc, modified berimbau

Musical arc, modified berimbau, or: single string guitar, or string drum! Single string instrument to pluck, strum or hit (see the different videos), with or without piezo mic. All the guitar strings can be played for each chord in every pitches.

See the 3 videos below… In the second one, the playing is made with a slide… In the 3rd one, it’s a “fingerstyle” playing (string drum!)

Spoon

Spoon

See the video below: here’s a demo of several small percussions made in the workshop : claves, shells, spoons…

Clave

Clave

See the video below: here’s a demo of several small percussions made in the workshop: claves, shells, spoons…

Finger clave

Finger Clave

The first model of finger clave was like a balloon making that noise: boom boom chaka… As for the second model, it was kind of a surfboard sounding like boom boom chaka…

One mic, three different sounds: thousands potential rhythms!

Josefa

Josefa

Plank to hit

“Plank to hit”