Recorder player reacts to the HELLCORDER

The Hellcorder is a guitar amplifier MADE OF RECORDERS - amazing or the worst thing ver to curse this earth??
(spoiler, I loved it)

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00:00 Intro
00:35 how does it work?
05:15 okay, what does it SOUND like?
08:11 devastated
09:55 how could we improve it, recorder-wise
12:45 the EWI
14:24 what I REALLY think of it

/// INSTRUMENTS
In this video I play on:
- a plastic Aulos soprano - I don’t remember the serial number, sorry!
- an EWI 400S electronic wind instrument

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[gayanderson]

It was fun watching Sarah hyperventilate when he was talking about making the hellcorder polyphonic. I hope they can collaborate. I’m also looking forward to more about the EWI.

[walewskimusic]

What a great reaction video! The info you provided is fantastic. And I love it when artists think outside the box. Thank you for taking the time to do this!

[harrywoodell]

Anyone who can build a pitch to MIDI converter and a pipe organ and a quiet blower box - massive respect! For the attack, expansion chambers between valves and Peterson valves would make more like a recorder player.

[flutechannel]

This should have a Million Views! Bravo Sarah! 😍

[douglasboyle]

Around the two-minute mark I paused your video to go watch his and it was a hoot! And I loved your response to it :) I want to see you two collaborate on this you both have an infectious joy for the absurd.

[Tvianne]

Sarah is sooo over the moon for this! She's adorable 🥰

[MichalKobuszewski]

Love to see the enthusiasm and curiosity at work here, crazy ideas are what makes the world a richer place!

[austinhackney]

That's totally wonderful. These are the people that lift humanity out of the dumps and elevate us all to the heights of crazy ingenuity. I want to show this to all the politicians and military people and say, "What are you wasting your life for, when you could be doing stuff like this?" The hellcorder! I have my fingers crossed that he's up for a collaboration. And yes, please, Sarah, deepen our knowledge of the EWI. It looks like something that could make those lonely winter nights fly by! 😃🏳‍🌈

[brianedwards]

The valve noise puts me in mind of the keys on a hurdy gurdy clattering which is part of the charm(?) of the instrument.

[RecorderEmily]

I think you have the expected effect of the tape over the windway backwards. When a human blows into a partially occluded windway, we tend to respond without realizing it. But a blowing machine with regulated pressure doesn't do that. Creating a bottleneck at the front of the windway will decrease how much air makes it into the windway per unit of time, which effectively means lower pressure inside the windway and a lower pitch - or appropriate air pressure for lower notes. It's like pinching a garden hose in one spot partway down its length (NOT at the end of the hose) - it doesn't make the water come out of the hose faster, it makes less of it come out because there's a partial blockage.

I'm so glad you made a video about this though, it's a fun and crazy project!!

[harrywoodell]

From the recorder player perspective, learned a lot about subtleties of the instrument.

[oxoelfoxo]

I hope @behindthemistakes sees this video and takes you up on the collab!

[Cysubtor_vb]

Wouldn't make sense for his purposes, but would be interesting to see a more pipe organ focused version that includes the larger great bass recorders (even if handmade purely for a single note) and polyphony over a greater range.

[mailissaramarthnajdorf]

Thank you for this awsome video. As a professional recorder player myself, and a hobby guitarist, i too love the concept of the hellcorder! I would love to see a tutorial on how to use the ewi - and tips on using it both live and in music production projects! Love your channel, keep it up!

[pop_ulation]

hahaha the sound of that thing cracks me up every time!

[robertcotrell]

Absolutely collaborate!

As a professional flute player, I just want to say that I love that you aren't a stick in the mud as so many classically trained musicians can be.

[PsychedelicChameleon]

It's wonderful to see you so happy and exited Sarah Jeffery!

[Tybold]

Funny, it wasn't long ago when I watched that video. It was so great to watch this video where you respect this crazy creator of Hellcorder and see the potential. Awesome and odd 😁

[CavyWheek]

Thank you Sarah for trying to help improve the Hellcorder. Valuable work for all humanity!

[normanfreund]

The mad scientist at work, love it. Some serious FFT going on to decode the audio into the recorder note to play. Some form of an attack, decay, sustain, release (ADSR) envelope would do wonders to the sound generated.