Beer Bottle/Musical Instrument

By John Farrier in Food & Drink, Music on Aug 30, 2010 at 10:53 am

Tuned Pale Ale is a product by designer Matt Braun. There’s a musical scale down the side of each bottle. You can drink down to a particular level, blow on rim, and the bottle will play a note. If you get a few people together with these bottles, you’ll be able to perform a melody. Braun writes:

This product aims to promote more of this type of social interaction. This product aims to inform users about the musical qualities of existing bottles and to make the bottle a better instrument.

Link via Gizmodo | Photo: Tuned Pale Ale


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  1. Vonskippy
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    “This product aims to promote more of this type of social interaction. This product aims to inform users about the musical qualities of existing bottles and to make the bottle a better instrument.”

    Is there ANYONE that’s not a “artist” or “designer” that buys this descriptive crap?

    It’s beer, people drink it to get wasted, there is no “musical quality” of beer bottles – unless you count puking sounds and fists hitting face noises as “music”.

  2. Edward
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    [Hits forehead with heel of palm.]

    Why didn’t I think of that?

  3. Muzition
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    Haha! As a musician, I love this.

  4. Blah
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    Ok, so, it’s a seven note scale on the bottle. He either needs to drop a note or sell these in 7-packs. Just sayin…

  5. meg
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Assuming that this was of (basically) comparable quality as what I would normally buy, and it wasn’t more than $0.50 more expensive, I’m all for it…otherwise I’m sticking with tried and true.

    I’d guess that local to where this dude is, it’s fine, fun, and affordable. Otherwise, you’re either going to have to ship it out or get a local store to carry it at increased cost. Not worth it in that case.

  6. Chad
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    Blah,
    Or, it’s a brilliant way to sell seven 6-packs.

  7. Chad
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    Blah,
    Or it’s a brilliant way to sell seven 6-packs.

  8. j farmer
    Aug 30th, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    Or buy a real beer bottle organ from Peterson Electro-musical products (in the tuner section)

  9. Phine
    Aug 31st, 2010 at 6:42 am

    Musicians will buy and try this for sure. Wouldn’t it be great to create instant music while you’re drunk and sober? That’ll be totally fun!

  10. Briannana
    Aug 31st, 2010 at 6:52 am

    And besides, blah. Hexachords kick ass.

  11. Andrew D
    Aug 31st, 2010 at 7:30 am

    Ha, love it! I always blow across the top of my beer bottles. The kids love it. Now I can tune them! Of course, it would be rocket science to get any bottle of beer into a correct set of pitches with anything from an electric tuner to a piano or a guitar (and your ear).

    -Andrew


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