Anyone seen this? https://youtu.be/OmKcxbMGav4?si=MSBObD--9sZKf36K
How strange and brilliant!
I wish I could find a recording of someone playing Irish trad on one (other than Cutiepie’s half-hearted attempt).
While something resembling a cut or tap might be possible, I don’t expect it could be as crisp as the real thing. This limits the scope for ITM.
That is interesting! I can’t see it being easier to play, especially for young children – you need good pitch sense when there are no marked places for the fingers. On the plus side accidentals might be more accessible.
Not keen on the tone, although different materials might change that.
I’ve seen something that worked like that before, but this time I’ve thought of a way of improving on it. You could have buttons on it to let you feel exactly where the notes are and indeed to play them all with precision even if your press is slightly out. It could have a button for every semitone across the whole octave because you don’t neet to press all the buttons to get the lowest note: you can miss a lot out without consequence, so the number of fingers you have wouldn’t be a limitation unless you‘ve lost a few.
Would that lose the gliss part of its name and the microtonal capability? It would be like a fiddle with frets.
It depends on what you want from it. The buttons would harm some of its functionality, but it might become a good solution for a fully chromatic whistle with the easiest possible fingering.
It’s cool to see another video from these creators. They made another instrument, the glissotar. Fun stuff!