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Motivational Monday: Kazookeylele & “The Final Countdown”

by Brett McQueen

What do you get when you combine a kazoo with a toy piano and a ukulele? This:

Apparently, the guy in the video made this instrument out of a baby piano and a broken ukulele.

He says, “I found the Baby Piano in Inverness [United Kingdom]. The ukulele was a broken one I had laying around. I just put two and two together, seemed sensible to me.”

It’s amazing how far a little creativity and ingenuity can take you. Anyone else ever made their own instrument or thought a little outside of the box for a performance?

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    6 Comments

    1. krapo

      Well I never created my own instruments, but I do covers with unexpected ones, like System of a Down’s Chop Suey on ukulele and Glockenspiel for an example.

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      • brettmcqueen

        krapo, that sounds awesome. Do you have a recording or a video of you covering these songs? I’d love to hear them.

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        • krapo

          Thanks!
          My website is http://krapo.wordpress.com
          There are 3 cover songs areas: videogames, TV&Movies, and songs.
          Fake OST and Soundtrack of my Life are my original music.

          Let me know what you think!

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          • Brett

            krapo, you’ve posted so many songs! I’ve been enjoying browsing through and listening to them. I like the thinking outside the box you’re doing. I see in some videos your using a device called a “Tenori-On”? I’ve never seen this before. Can you explain to me what it does? Does it produce sound?

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            • krapo

              Hey I’m glad you liked what I did 🙂
              The Tenori-On is a fun instrument! Basically it’s a kind of synthetizer and sequencer, but the input method is very different, there are 16×16 LEDs which are also buttons. There are different modes which set the LEDs to control notes, tempo, instrument, etc and everything is visualized on the 16×16 matrix. And when you play it, you and the audience can *see* each note that is played.
              And when I tried to think ‘out of the box’ with this instrument, i did the True Blood video. An d after even more ‘out of the box’ thinking, I did the Legend of Zelda video which I’m very proud of.

              You can see videos explaining how it works here: http://tenori-on.yamaha-europe.com/

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