Glissotar Wind Instrument from Glissonic Instruments

This is an acoustic ( not electronic ) wind instrument. Normally not worth a thread here, but this is breaking ground and i think some others here may find this interesting.

This is the first from Glissonic but it looks like they may have a size range of these.

Where is the opening glissando to Rhapsody in Blue ?

There are a lot more besides glissandos with this.

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thank you for posting about this

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I’ve been following this for a bit… Soprano is my least favorite horn to play, but this is a whole other animal. Really curious. The 3D printed version might be worth a go for me.

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Was about to say “sold” because any inventive/uncommon wind instruments are hard to resist for me, but then I saw the 1,800 EUR price for the 3D printed version. A serious professional might spend many times that on a flute/horn/sax, and the technology is very cool, but that is a pretty steep price for a 3D printed instrument that hasn’t established itself as a professional, reliable instrument yet. Hope they are successful though.

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For those interested, Bart Hopkins put together very rough plans for versions of this in his 1996 book, Musical Instrument Design – Practical Information for Instrument Making. See page 80 in that book. I think there may be online examples as well ( Experimental Musical Instruments Journal ). Making your own is always an option, often a very successful one.

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Same issue for this or the harpejji also. It seems that their market target is more the professional musician already confortable with the adjacent instruments and to go for it. For the mere mortal, we can always enjoy the Xaphoon, I guess :sweat_smile:

I am pushing too much but yep, I am interested to explore a microtonal instrument like the glissotar but 1800 to 3000 EUR blind is too much for someone (ie me) without any wind instrument background besides some harmonica for fun. I know that I am not the public for this but I dreamed a bit :sweat_smile:

I would like to see/hear the demonstration of a note or repeated notes on the same pitch, where, for example, the note’s pitch is simultaneously dropped from the embouchure and raised from the fingering, keeping the pitch stable, but producing a change in tone color.

Two different players may have different timbres on the same wind instrument if, for example, one of them “lips up” a flat setup and the other “lips down” a sharp setup.

There is probably a word for what I’m describing. A change in tone color without a change in pitch. A “filter sweep” of sorts, on a single note.