Brown note upgrade for bassoon

 Sure, a bassoon can play pretty low, but maybe we could make it even lower.  Like, intestine-rattlingly low.  I designed a low A1 extension for my bassoon in Fusion 360 and printed it with my Ender 3.  Should work on any other bassoon with a 38 mm bell.  Here's a pic of the result:

And here's the bad boy in action:

Since it doesn't add any additional keywork, Bb1 can no longer be played with the extension in place, but thems the breaks, folks.  If you'd like to print it yourself, here's the file on Thingiverse:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4900915

Quarantune

There's a pandemic on, so we're all staying home, compulsively washing hands, watching too much news, and realizing we touch our faces waaaaay too much.

We need some happy sounds, so here are some that I just grew in my basement.  Enjoy:

Drums, synth bass, and duophonic synth are all from the modular synthesizer I've built over the past few years.  Also included are guitar and vocals. 

Paraphonie

It's a nice fall Sunday morning.  I built a vaguely organ-like paraphonic patch on my modular synth with Yarns, Jove, Peaks, and Shelves modules.  Here it is:

Chaos-some

Had some fun with the modular synthesizer: an amplitude modulated triangle low-frequency oscillator into a quantizer set to a pentatonic scale driving a sawtooth oscillator.  Then I layered some cracklebox over it with delay and then played some electric bass and piano over it for good measure.

I hate naming pieces, so I gave it an obnoxious one.  Bon appetit:

Bach-tronica

It's been a while, but I still make noises.  This time with help from J. S. Bach and Tom Oberheim.  Fugue No. 1 for the well tempered clavier on an Oberheim Matrix 6 synthesizer.

Pianoma

Time for more music played wrong!  Van Halen has a few fun songs for synth/piano (Jump, Right Now, etc), but a lot of their stuff is guitar-driven power trio stuff that doesn't seem like it could be translated to solo piano.  Last night I took an hour to see if "Panama" could happen on piano.  The results are a bit better than I had guessed.  Next time I'm at a piano bar, I'll be tempted to request it.

This instead of doing dishes

Here's a cover of Wilco's kind of cryptically named "Jesus etc."  It's got one of my favorite lyrics: "Our love is all of God's money."  This video features my new G&L Legacy guitar, which is the first guitar that I've ever bought new.