Elgenharp? Anybody.

Cheers Howard. That's an impressive instrument, but it ereally does look as thopugh you need to be a nuclear physicist to play it.

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Their performance looks impressive, but I wonder if this instrument will permit new ways of composing music ? And if it does, will it be popular ? (Otherwise it will die.)

Is there a single album composed with a Chapman stick that's been successful in the mainstream ?
(As much as I like Tony Levin or Trey Gunn, alone or with King Crimson, I wouldn't call their work really 'mainstream'.)
Of course there are a few played with a stick that went gold.

Hopefully it's not just another toy for über-players. That would be great if it could foster some new creativity. A thing that other trial like the Synthaxe never really did. An exception for the stick perhaps.

Food for thought.

Good point. The mellotron was created in order to supply a wide range of instrumental sounds in one convenient (well sort of) box, but became popular because it mostly sounded nothing like the real thing, even if the effect was similar. If you get what I mean.

Is it different enough to replace a bloke standing behinds a laptop pressing the odd key now and then. I must admit to finding it hard to get emotionally involved with a live act that mostly consists of the above, though a mixture can be very effective, for example Pivot, whose line-up of drums, laptop, laptop-plus-guitar, was awesome live.