The violin is a ridiculous instrument. Ridiculously awesome. But how can someone make it more ridiculous? Easy. With SCIENCE.
Stradivarius created many beautiful, beautiful instruments. He also created beautiful children who created beautiful instruments. Beautiful children with hideous names. Like Omobono. Which sounds like the name of a rejected group from the ’80s. Which he couldn’t've known at the time. An interesting thing about ancient violins, they can be programmed. The sound vibrating creates grooves in the wood over time, which makes the violin’s sound more rich and distinctive. Then again, I would never play a 300-year-old violin. I’d be too tempted to rock a solo, then smash it accidentally.
But the form of the violin has been set in stone for hundreds of years. What sort of hooligan would try to come up with a modern re-invention? A designer? Figures.
The Gavari Semiacoustic Violin, designed by Gerda Hopfgarten is completely without sound-holes, which hopefully will not make the violin unable to reproduce sound. Just reproduce. Also, it kinda looks like a spear. A spear I could hurl at people, only it plays music. A black, futuristic weapon. I would be in no way surprised if someone gets shot carrying one of them.
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Ben Dansie
November 3rd, 2009 - 3:06:45 AM
Oi. Nothing wrong with the name Omobono. It means 'good man' in Italian. There's a St Omobono - the pratrong saint of business. And there's even a digital agency named Omobono.
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