Monday, February 22, 2010

Now I Know The Difference / From Gold And Brass

Tromba marina, oh tromba marina. Sounds like a boat, but it's an instrument - not a particularly popular instrument (at least not since the early 1700s), but an instrument nonetheless. And WHAT an instrument! When you play it with a bow, the vibrating string (singular) causes the bridge to move against the soundboard; voilĂ : a stringed instrument that sounds like brass.



(More, and how to acquire one at Unprofitable Instruments.)

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