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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 that were used in various Happenings in New York City, these experiments eventually led to her highly idiosyncratic instruments and performance method. \\
+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's gallery "A Fly Can't Bird But A Bird Can Fly". In 1967 Demby and Rutman held several happening-style events that mixed sonic, visual, and performance art centered around big sheets of metal that the artists had found. In one piece called "The Thing", Rutman wore a white cardboard box and banged on Demby's sheet-metal creation with "a rock in a sock." In another piece entitled "Space Mass", Rutman projected film upon a piece of curved sheetmetal onto which Demby had welded several steel rods that she played as a percussion instrument. Rutman later remarked, "We thought it would sound good as a xylophone, but it didn't." ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rutman#Early_life_and_career)) These experiments eventually led to her highly idiosyncratic instruments and performance method. \\
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 ==Similar Instruments==
- Robert Rutman's[[ Robert Rutman|Steel Cello]]\\
+Long term collaborator Robert Rutman's [[ Robert Rutman|Steel Cello]]\\
-Jan Heinke's [[Jan Heinke|Stahlcello]] \\
+The [[Jan Heinke|Stahlcello]] made by Jan Heinke, A student of Rutman  \\
 Tom Nunn's [[Crustacean]] \\
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 There is another artist by the name Marilyn Donadt that has a very similar instrument, is there a relationship? ((https://www.youtube.com/user/JustImagineMusic)) (())\\
+Demby maintains that Rutman's instruments are adaptations of her own, they were known collaborators making steel sound sculptures before their own explorations with [[steel resonator]] instruments. \\
 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. \\
+There seems to be several large bowed steel instrument makers who are interested in a kind of Cosmic sound. \\