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Can anyone identify this instrument?

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:21 am
by Travis Brown
Steven Tyler in an Oprah interview. Starts at 18:07.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDn-CYqVxW0

At first glance thought it was a BulBul Tarang, but it sounds like a keyed hammered dulcimer. I'd guess Northern European. Spent the last hour scouring Google images to no avail.

Re: Can anyone identify this instrument?

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:13 am
by Jim McConkey
It appears to be something called a Hammerchord, invented by Bob Cunnhingham of Georgia in 2003. Here is his patent.

Re: Can anyone identify this instrument?

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:23 pm
by Nicholas Blanton
Another Marxophone-like gizmo. I thought it might be a Dolceola [ http://www.minermusic.com/dolceola/dolceola.htm ] but am not sure. The fretlesszither.com site does not show anything exactly like it, either- unless I mistake the category..