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Constance Demby is an early maker of large Steel Resonator instruments. Her work appears to be inspired by the Baschet Bothers. Her instrumental performance method is highly idiosyncratic and incorporates elements or spirituality and outsider music.
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)
Similar Instruments
Robert Rutman'sSteel Cello
Jan Heinke's Stahlcello
Tom Nunn's Crustacean
Whale Sail
Notes
Interview 1)
Bio 2)
Another interview 3)
There is another artist by the name Marilyn Donadt that has a very similar instrument, is there a relationship? 4) 5)
What is the relationship to the Crustacean by Tom Nunn, Robert Rutman's Steel Cello, Jan Heinke's Stahlcello, ect.
There seems to be several large bowed steel instrument makers who are interested in a kind of Cosmic sound.
