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+ | Constance Demby is an early maker of large [[Steel Resonator]] instruments. She collaborated with [[Robert Rutman]] in the 1960s building various experimental steel sound sculptures at Rutman' | ||
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+ | ===Space Bass=== | ||
+ | The Space Bass is made from large sheet of stainless steel (likey 4 x 8 feet) that is formed into an arc shape and attached to a bent metal rail that is about 3 inches wide. Onto the rail are several 1/4inch steel rods that cut to different lengths and clamped to the rail to tune them to a chromatic scale. The instrument is played by tapping or bowing the rods as well as the metal sheet directly.(details can be seen in the above video) | ||
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+ | ==Similar Instruments== | ||
+ | Long term collaborator Robert Rutman' | ||
+ | The [[Jan Heinke|Stahlcello]] made by Jan Heinke, A student of Rutman | ||
+ | Tom Nunn's [[Crustacean]] \\ | ||
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+ | ===Whale Sail=== | ||
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There is another artist by the name Marilyn Donadt that has a very similar instrument, is there a relationship? | There is another artist by the name Marilyn Donadt that has a very similar instrument, is there a relationship? | ||
- | Is there a relationship to the Crustacean by ]] Or the steel cello? or the stallcello? | + | Demby maintains that Rutman' |
- | There seems to be several large bowed steel instrument makers who are interested in a kind of Cosmic sound. | + | What is the relationship to the Crustacean by [[Tom Nunn]], [[Robert Rutman]]' |
+ | There seems to be several large bowed steel instrument makers who are interested in a kind of Cosmic sound. |