Guitars can imitate any instrument – this man proves it

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25 points·colinprince··11 comments

This news article is a YouTube description with 85 ads and poor user interface. Why not just post the video?

There's like a 33% chance the submitter (using an adblocker, like I do) didn't see any ads (like I do).

One reason is because the HN algorithm automatically penalizes any submission from the youtube.com domain. (This fact is a secret)

... with an assortment of household items, effects, and a looper pedal. Still, impressive. I can barely make guitar noises with a guitar.

Electric violin (by e.g. Ed Alleyne-Johnson) [1] imitates the guitar, as do Infected Mushroom's synths (cover on guitar [2] [3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2dWd2ssfA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkl1ym9pr4

Maybe not "any" instrument, considering all the ones imitated except for the bagpipes (which were questionable) were of other stringed instruments.

Misusing a guitar (the finest musical instrument in history) to imitate the Scottish pipes (the least musical instrument of torture yet devised) would be illegal in any just jurisdiction.

very cool but didn't hear any woodwinds or brass instruments

On the Flash Gordon soundtrack, Queen does very well with fanfares that would usually be played on trumpets, but instead played on electric guitar. Not that they sound like trumpets. It just sounds awesome!

I was really hoping for a flute imitation on a guitar cause I'm really curious how that would be done. But it seems like he's just doing imitations of other string instruments excluding the piano.

That's impressive!

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