Monday 11 October 2010

Bassoforte by Diego Stocco

Diego Stocco re-purposed the keyboard of a dismantled piano that was in his garden, he built a new instrument by combining it with some other parts he had laying around. He ended up with a mechanical hybrid thing he calls "Bassoforte" (bass + pianoforte). The neck is from a broken electric bass, the bridge is a cabinet handle, the pickups are from a guitar, and the part at the top where the strings are attached is a chimney cap, which works as resonator as well as percussive sound. The track he created is a tribute to his Dad who is a big fan of Western comic books and "spaghetti western" films.

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