I don't want so many long bows.

Tremolo Strings

Pizzicato Strings

It's also the only instrument that uses this kind of technique.

Orchestral Harp

String Ensemble 1

String Ensemble 2

Orchestra Hit

Less strings.

All of a sudden, the strings

And where's the orchestration?

Synth Strings 1

Synth Strings 2

It's a whole orchestra of about 100 instruments, all designed for anybody to play using natural skill.

The hurdy gurdy is the only musical instrument that uses a crank to turn a wheel to rub strings, like the bow of a violin, to produce music.

One of a kind R B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, Fly Baby.

And we started by making instruments for some of the world's greatest performers we call these hyperinstruments for Yo Yo Ma, Peter Gabriel, Prince, orchestras, rock bands. Instruments where they're all kinds of sensors built right into the instrument, so the instrument knows how it's being played.

CLAM Chordata

A brass band is marching along the street.

Do you know the conductor of the state symphony orchestra? No.

they don't play brass bands for cattlemen.

He had a little band... kind of a nonrecording orchestra.

So all of this is pretty innovative, if you consider that the hurdy gurdy appeared about a thousand years ago and it took two people to play it one to turn the crank, and another person yes to play the melody by physically pulling up large wooden pegs.

I promised to take my kid sister to the Philharmonic.

You say you've written a string quartet and a piano concerto.

I never heard the orchestra in better form.

The hurdy gurdy has been used, historically, through the centuries in mostly dance music because of the uniqueness of the melody combined with the acoustic boombox here.

Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom heard folk instrument the hurdy gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000 year history.

I'm already holding down the orchestra. Maybe the key's too low.

I was playing nice. I had to write the orchestra bits, right?

There is a full blown orchestra living inside the building.

And this is a six year old child composing a piece of music for a 32 piece orchestra.

But let's move on to a piece where clearly I'm behaving myself, and that is my Concerto for Orchestra.

The mighty call of the orchestra, bursting like a musical storm, crashed through walls and roofs and spread through the neighborhood.

But I'm thinking of orchestrating it... and putting it into an opera I'm working on.

And today, the hurdy gurdy is used in all sorts of music traditional folk music, dance, contemporary and world music in the U.K., in France, in Spain and in Italy.

Too bad they don't have a brass band for a good cattle tally.

And the architect is really, he moves into the position of being an orchestrator of all of these processes.

People in my orchestra came up to me and said, Ben, what happened? That's what happened.

Instrumental

Swami Instrument Editor

I'll give you two examples.

Right now, here on our stage, the magnificent orchestra of American composerconductor Ray Block.

Snares on, snares off.

There is the sine, the sine function.