New Acoustic Instrument Sounds Like a Digital Synthesizer

The yaybahar sounds like an electronic synthesizer, but it’s a completely acoustic instrument that uses only drum-like membranes, strings, mallets, and bows. When its inventor, Görkem Şen, plays it, the yaybahar creates weird, ethereal sounds like you’d expect from a science fiction movie. You can listen to more performances here.


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Beat me to the Star Wars reference. However, let me add an even more retro reference: The same sort of sound can be created by placing your ear to an extended Slinky.
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Sounds very similar to hitting a telephone pole's guy wire, which emits a sound like the blasters in Star Wars. I think they actually used a similar technique to generate those sounds back in 1977. We used to do it all the time back then as well.
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Personally, I would have just altered the original document to make it seem the same, but unworkable...

Perhaps even add a little something to make it dangerous to anyone trying to make the recipe.
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Reminds me about a conspiracy theory I heard about the Anarchist's Handbook one time. The original book that came out in like the 70's had some recipes in it that would not work. There were some of the explosive recipes that would be extremely dangerous to try to do. Some made products that were so unstable that safe handling was almost impossible and you were pretty much guaranteed to blow yourself up if you tried it. The conspiracy theory I had heard was that the U.S. government was behind the book. The wrote it and made it known so anyone who wanted to do harm would take themselves out of the playing field. Of course, if you read about the history of the book you find that the odds of this conspiracy theory being true are pretty low.
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Not that hacking some website (and alerting the media at large) is going to stop terrorism, but let's pretend for the sake of, I dunno, comedy.
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