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just get a good grasp of it like smiling until the camera is on Davey smiles a lot until the cameras on him we've explored a lot of really incredible instruments on this channel massive instruments crazy musical gear so I of course said yes when Davey reached out a few days ago about going to this museum and check out cool instruments particularly a very very large base because I need the base absolutely brought the musical instrument museum in Phoenix Arizona made famous at least for me by mystery guitar man who was here a while back and Davey reached out that's why I want to go with him so I of course said yeah if Davey 5:04 asks you to go see a really big bass you would have to do absolutely we've called the police exactly and I can't have another bass related offense on my record I already used a pick on the last first of October album it's a two hundred thousand square foot museum we have over 7,000 instruments on display at any one time so how long have you had your youtube channel eight years and how long have you been playing bass rich we can take kind of a quick tour around the museum if you have particular interests we can certainly steer it that direction peaking of my particular interests we do this in the orientation space at the Museum because a guitar is a pretty well-known familiar instrument around the world and if a guitar can look all these different ways and can take all these different permutations magnify that by flutes drums horns all these different designs come from all parts of the world the Portuguese guitar here is arguably you know it's the first instrument you can really call an intentional full-size guitars late 1500s when it was kind of a transition between the whele and and what we consider a guitar now I need the bass we've got an Africa gallery Asia Middle East thousands of instruments on display we have video monitors accompanying every exhibit yeah so you've got these headphones it pairs with the video you can hear the instruments you can watch them being played and it turns into a pretty immersive experience our current portrayal of Italian music including the the great legacy of violin makers various regional traditions some really nice old mandolins that's high-end Oh bass actually in our mandolin Orchestra that's a pretty wild instrument at the height of the mandolin Orchestra craze when was the height of the mandolin Orchestra case I didn't I didn't know that there was a mandolin over those late 19th century early 1900s early 20th century and all these mandolin Orchestra so you'd have mandolin mandola mando cello mando bass and just like all over the country I came from one of the members of the original quarry man rod Davis so it's kind of cool to have you know contemporary instruments but also the the more folk instruments that people have obviously used and continue to use to make real music our conservator Rodrigo he takes care of the collection and takes care of all the instruments here we don't typically play collection objects so it's always important to have our conservators on board and aware of what's going on that's exchange not to Big Jim Alexander from Primus what yeah yeah a number of years ago he came at Lee played here in the gallery it was pretty cool I also started playing music because about Fryman yeah well that seriously Tim she's an pour soda oh my god I didn't think I'd be fanboying so hard when I came well this is the drum set from Tommy the cat that's why I have a double kick pedal sorry I'm fan going really hard right now this is the coolest thing ever we've got a dedicated artist gallery downstairs but more and more things we have on display are from the careers and significant people so whether it's Sonic Youth or Aerosmith or The Who you know they've gone beyond our artists gallery now we've got artists all over the museum so people who are the equivalent of the Eric Clapton's and the Paul McCartney's from all over the world we've got their instruments but yeah this is when the cofounders are the Roberto ven school William Eaton built that extended range harp guitar any possible direction is like one amazing video then we have like 40 minutes to look through all [Music] if you know the Wrecking Crew la sesión was a difference pal Blaine's drumkit Tommy Tedesco's guitar I mean those are the instruments that have been heard by virtually everyone on the planet Wow oh wow too many strings on that for you very much growing in popularity with like electric guitars yes more and more strings than you well hand pen basis you know yeah yeah yeah at 1 4 3 is that right bass yes it single strings are in multiple courses fantasy the string space single string single string and finally posting its if it's okay yeah with like a 32 string bass is it tuned in familiar intervals or is it like chromatic and would be like afar nice strings bases across the octaves yeah it's also cool to run into people who have experimented and tried to see if this will work and why sometimes people have learned you know 32 is cool before gets the job done what is the verdict Davey does 36 work yes [Music] you know there's this just you know ei de you know I don't even know how its tuned it certainly could be tuned that way that's the neat thing about mem really need to see the adaptations of familiar instruments and how they take on the local culture and the local aesthetics [Music] old vietnamese cast drums this is an amazing art form when people play their own instruments and they see something that's a little bit familiar but just different enough they are they start thinking man if I took the frets out or if I added a string all the ideas that start coming out from people's traditional instruments from around the world you can imagine how that might apply to to what you have at home that's that's kind of how I go about learning just about any new instrument is kind of how it relates to the guitar is that I yeah because that's the night when I'm most familiar with whether it's a harp or Appler York or something like that you know do you put the strings all in one plane does every string have a separate neck do you have frets a stop it neck to stop it is it more like a harp is it more like a lute this seems like that entire can you gather token for this you have to say pretty please can I pretty please have a token but you said [Music] not bass I need a big bass now we'll go down and get situated and and get the Optive ace ready to go come around the corner too small man [Music] you know the frequencies are so low when you're playing it doesn't make much sense I mean it's just kind of a rumble it doesn't you can't really distinguish pitches when you're really up close and playing it how low does this go it goes down to a c0 so 16 Hertz technically below like a real distinct human hearing but you can hear it a lot better out by the escalator because that wavelength is so huge it needs physical space to develop it sounds better out there actually because it just it needs room from high to low it's D G C basically like a cello but lower much lower yeah two octaves below each other it's barely not touching the ceiling the space certainly just barely clears that we knew this was going to be part of the collection and so it does just fit it really hasn't left other than on one occasion we'd be installed it moved it down to our theater and Hans Zimmer who is the the great film score composer sampled this October's Ewell discovered is not a great solo instrument everything happens pretty slowly on the octave ace but it's also really an impressive musical instrument that did have a real job yes in 1850s that was the only way you could get those those notes and that carrying power like in a large festival setting so you have a couple of those in the orchestra and you're not playing melodies you know certainly you're barely even playing harmonies you're just putting up like a physical presence out into the audience how popular were these in the 18th eighteen fifties I don't think they were terribly popular they didn't really take off so to speak and they're still two or three originals remaining not all of those are playable so this is a contemporary reimagining of the opto base the mechanism for changing the pitches is actually improved compared to the original we've got the benefit of different materials and it was strung with different strings and it was actually a combination I think of hand and foot levers to help get the leverage to stop the string so this just has a number of slightly modernized improvements but the concept is just the same it's built like a real instrument so even those tuning pegs at the top are functional friction tuning pegs not just decorative they're real pegs in this application their job is really just a hold tension and the fine-tuning happens down on the tail piece just for practicality it needs a custom so just to I mean it needs to be stout enough to even give the sufficient energy to get those strings moving yeah each one of these corresponds to a half-step it's basically like a mechanical capo you can't really do a standard grip just because the bow is is too big so just get a good grasp of it [Music] it sounds like a monster I wasn't expecting a dead being quite as musical as it is [Music] [Music] hi-hat sound [Music] [Music] everybody video isn't sponsored by anyone or I guess it's sponsored by me and we have these eight string ornaments available for the rest of the year and I just think they're really cool thing they're also available in Ankara P bundle they will add more strings to Christmas tree so want to say Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah happy Kwanzaa merry whatever it is you celebrate or you don't celebrate these also work great as an air freshener on bypass and bad musician jokes but yeah so it's a cool thing that's gonna be there for the rest of the year hope you have a wonderful rest of the year me and the team are gonna be taking off January we got a few more videos especially one with Davey coming soon and then we're looking forward to some really cool stuff in 2020 so thanks so much for being a fan of the channel we so appreciate it ornaments below let's get back to the video can I play it a bit is that fine I mean the lowest note first ring different the lovers are different flavors of earthquake and I play with a bow especially one this big knowing best yeah right yeah [Music] yeah once you get down that far it's hard to know what's going on [Music] it's really hard to control this without a balancing yeah yeah I'm also just the pressure getting right and staying on the string and everything it takes a little bit of practice and a little bit of nuance hector berlioz actually composed arts for that you know so there were core Kestrel scores that called for October no one was shredding on it you know but there were real parts written for that instrument it's a legit part of musical history when there was no other way to make that happen [Music] that's actually kind of kind of something oh you doing John I'm sure that's not the first time yeah there's like this low frequency you can actually see it you could see the frequency that's amazing let's change a huge that's pretty good for both of you so it's a real instrument it's designed to be played and that's the nice thing about having a contemporary one so this is an Italian luthier he built a real Optive bass when we're talking about the science of sound and vibrations translating the sound you know when you you get that string moving you can see with your eyes vibrating sixteen times a second yeah and so it's one thing to to have the abstract concept on a violin but then on the octave bass you're really seeing that cause and effect which is really exciting so we're hearing the upper harmonics of that right now because we of course we're not hearing the 16 Hertz you must be hearing the higher octave this because I can hear a pitch and I don't think I'm just imagining it right yeah and there are a lot of overtones going on but in terms of your that amazing crumble that's where it gets pretty indistinct and muddy but when you are closer to the escalator and yeah you know whether it's just my imagination or pure physics you know it feels like you can hear it better because it needs that space for the wavelength yeah well I found that with recording upright bass like yeah you need to give it some space for the recording or it kind of just becomes indistinguishable and that's you know at E this is what two octave Thornton distracted lower than yeah that's the open low string of a standard base and then everything yes beyond okay so that's good so this high string what is that so this is a D yeah D tell us I've dropped me setting liver oh I didn't realize you're anything to learn so that should be low range otherwise standard base really glad you got to play the octave bass we're proud of it it's a really cool highlight of Mims collection and so it is a special occasion we get to demonstrate it and share it with people who know what they're seeing so really glad you can come back that low string is still going yeah it's gonna go until next week the special thanks to the musical instrument museum Phoenix Arizona for letting us play these has been awesome check them out if you're around well David thanks so much for bringing me out with you as well I really appreciate it and he's gonna have a video on his channel playing this bass and then we have a bass lesson which with us coming up pretty soon if you'd like to subscribe also subscribe to Davy of course if you're into bass at all so

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Length: 20min 59sec (1259 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 11 2019

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