Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments [Hardcover]

Bart Hopkin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Ellipsis Arts (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559613823
• ISBN-13: 978-1559613828
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #730,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an amazing book about very creative people & music., January 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Hardcover)

Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones is a new CD and book celebrating 37 outrageously inventive designers and builders of new and unusual musical instruments. The package includes a 96-page book with over 90 photographs and a foreword by Tom Waits, and a 73-minute CD of entirely original performances by 18 of the artists featured in the book. All this comes packaged in a sturdy box that can also be played as an instrument (as demonstrated by Bart Hopkin on National Public Radio).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, March 8, 2003

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Bill Schaeffer (Venice, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Hardcover)

What a wonderful collection of tremendous music!!! The package is beautiful and the booklet is very informative. The music is all very listenable. I've never heard of most of these artists and am impressed with their talent, genius, craftsmanship, art, and spirit. I highly recommend this collection to anyone with the least interest in music and music making!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, March 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Hardcover)

A book-and-CD package devoted to new and unheard of musical instruments, full of magnificent photographs, informative text and great music, every page and every track overflowing with ideas and originality. Some of the world's most interesting and inventive musical instrument makers appear in the book with music from them included on the CD. This will become a collector's item.