Creating musical instruments with construction workers

A 5 days workshop in the CFA BTP Centre Val de Loire
www.ccca-btp.fr/btp-cfa-eure-et-loir
Thanks to Fondation BTP Plus, www.fondationbtpplus.fr
Thanks to Yann-Erik LECLERCQ for the invitation
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[@iamsushi1056]

I love that your pvc clarinet sounds so good KZbin is like, “yeah these videos have clarinets in them”.

[@BardofCornwall]

This is fantastic! I love it when non musicians get involved with music making. Music should be for everyone to make.

[@333Eriana]

yes yes yes, i used to live with a carpenter and he always complained that he felt boring around me (a musician and painter) and i said , no way!!! you are an artist with wood - and he really was - he would make entire wardrobes etc all tongue and groove and design it himself - no one does that anymore

[@thekid150539]

it's super cool you got to make instruments with all the different trades. would love to hear something that made use of them together

[@isaigo735]

He is just cool

[@bleepklub2318]

so inspiring these workshops should be in all schools

[@arthurbesnard1536]

Underrated channel

[@NicolasBras]

I'm working on it!

[@mdidjiz]

C'est génial que l'organisme de formation organise ce genre d’événements, force à eux.

[@NicolasBras]

Oui c'était une super expérience, hâte de refaire ce genre de choses!

[@sebastiendine4834]

Encore une excellente vidéo ! Bienvenue dans ma ville ! Il y a une association sur Chartres qui pourrait vous intéresser. C'est l'Intrumentarium de Chartres (le site web est facile à trouver). Ils ont reconstitué des instruments anciens représentés sur des sculptures et vitraux de la cathédrale. Certains sont exposés dans le hall du musée des beaux arts derrière la cathédrale. Cette association a aussi organisé des concerts que vous pouvez voir sur leur chaîne youtube.

[@althejazzman]

Love this. "makes noise from random material" "This is going to be a good day".

[@333Eriana]

Wow - --i made overtone flutes thanks to you . . . . and now just found your vids again. how much fun it would be to hang out. over here i started alot of drum groups etc, but mostly people wouldn't show up, or they are too shy to make weird noises. I had the most fun with a fellow named Zak who would show up and we would find broken things all over the park and play them. bike wheels are good.

[@MarkMcCluney]

Absolutely brilliant Nicholas! Thanks so much for sharing this one. I learned such a lot - the ceramic xylophone is amazing and I had never heard of the Baschet Brothers before. Thanks again mate, I really enjoyed this.

[@denishooper2618]

trop hâte d'ecouter le resultat!!!

[@fpitteng]

I love your videos! Thanks for the joy!

[@JNaysh]

Hey! I'm a big fan of this channel and the instruments you make really inspire me. Recently I've been making idiophonic propane tank drums called "hank" drums, I have made 3 of my own with a total of 5 scales (2 have a scale on each side). They're really beautiful and inexpensive, and you could also probably give them pickups of some kind because they are vibrating steel tongues. Thought you might take a look at them, they seem like they might be kind of up your alley! Merci beaucoups :)

[@gccgomes]

Wow, it's so inspiring, amazing.

[@Raku777]

Amazing. You found some new instruments. I especially liked the threaded rods acting like rain sticks.

[@chrisknutson5798]

this one seems super easy to make too, I'm gonna have to try it...

[@hamster_of_the_apocalypse]

Hell yeah! Looks fun.

[@koomky]

génial, merci !

[@multiplysixbynine]

Incroyable!

[@joethompson11]

This is incredible!! Amazed by how many things you got made with everyone, what an awesome experience! Looking forward to hearing some more music out of these

[@anjalir75]

So good. Schools should make all their instruments for music with the students and teach trades simultaneously

[@MrDrummerultime]

surement l'une des meilleures videos de ta chaine ! excellent!!!!

[@alexandreterroni1221]

j'adore se que tu fait !

[@Etrehumain123]

Quelle idee de fou!

[@guillaumest1]

Bravo les gars !

[@Yo_ca_va]

grave cool et j'adore le principe des klong put, je connaissais pas, merci

[@tvbox6955]

amazing!

[@NicolasBras]

Thanks!

[@chrisknutson5798]

This might be my favorite episode of yours, You're like a kid in a candy store!

[@HowlingUlf]

wow what a trip it must have been! :D looking forward to the next episode!!!

[@geraldillo]

Nice! Especially the second xylophone

[@LiftPizzas]

"Bring me a small lyre." "I didn't do it, I wasn't even there! The check is in the mail!"

[@XxSUPERPOOPxX]

I found your videos through reddit, and this is the first new vid since I've subscribed and I just wanted to say this is really fantastic! I'm a huge fan of what you do here, and I'll be looking forward to more videos :)

[@undeadOtter]

This is the second video I have seen of you. I am really enjoying your channel. This is awesome the ways you and others come up with to make instruments out of .... well.. nothing basically.

[@NicolasBras]

Thank you and welcome!

[@BadgerBishop]

You do a lot of precise, uncomplicated things, any chance you do more complicated stuff? I'd love to see your take on a hurdy gurdy/wheel fiddle.

[@NicolasBras]

I would love to try one day!

[@333Eriana]

@@NicolasBras -- i just made a Tagel harpa out of a broken coffee table ; and when looking for help and instruction found a video of this elder fellow that shows how he made a hurdy gurdy all from wood.(there's probably more that show how the parts go here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHiteWd8r9OmpbM

[@iamsushi1056]

Why don’t that make more instruments like xylophones or marimbas but out of stone? It’s such a cool, snappy sound!

[@NoSuchStrings]

Jack of all instruments

[@fredericthom8113]

pour la lyre basse , si on mettait comme des bottle neck sur les phalanges de chaque doigts , on pourrait en joué avec plus de notes ??non?(comme des bagues sur la deuxieme phalange , comme du slide en guitare , on pourrait faire des accords )

[@clonkyy]

wow

[@Dr.K.Wette_BE]

Cinq mètres de tuyau, c'est comme un jeu de 16 pieds à l'orgue. GG, c'est super amusant ! (et eux aussi ont dû s'amuser !)

[@wigwagstudios2474]

please please please make a sample thing of your stuff it would be incredible

[@NicolasBras]

Stay tuned, that could happen really quick!

[@SONGSTICKS]

Fan-pop-tastic !! Here's an idea though. Looking at those square tube clay bricks you used for a Klong put, could you make a double Didge with those I wonder? :o)

[@Langwyrm]

I would very much pay to see French Jason Momoa build and use an instrument in person

[@dj_iso_j]

I would so go to your instrument building school.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Tidy! 😁

[@Barry-Hall]

Thanks, I loved this! Question - with the xylophone slate pieces, why did you shape the ends into points, rather than just leaving them square (or rounded)?

[@ahmetyasin7278]

please make an acoustic piano...

[@clemmcguinness1087]

Great video, thanks. What is the foam you used beneath the tone bars?

[@NicolasBras]

I don't know, we took what we found!

[@denysbarabanza3129]

Very nice! But where to get those stones?

[@19mychaellee71]

"Heyyyy...Eyeball Kid!"

[@MrJunk78]

Fascinating. Your videos could be 8 hours long and I wouldn't complain.

[@MustafaUmutSarac]

At 3:59 , there are pipes , are they copper , bronze , brass or steel , the two percussions are sounded gamelan like , impressive really ! Please tell me the pipe material and the alloy information , thank you very much !

[@RickRobinson]

ya that weird thing at 5:15 !!

[@fredericthom8113]

pour le premier instrument , ça ne s appel pas un savatophone ?

[@misterxenon5068]

The slate keyboard makes me think of a different instrument called the lithophone

[@MalucoLapin]

salut ! sais-tu qu'on peut faire sonner un tuyau d'alu avec ses petits doigts enduits de collophane ? façon bol chantant ;)

[@mathias841]

Waaa

[@trackie1957]

“We also made this…” at 5:00

[@philippe-lebel]

La "douce musique" du BTP ce ne sont pas que les tractopelles et autres marteaux piqueurs ;)

[@zappzapp1350]

I got mad by this video Because i saw so many things that i try on my own Hey Dude i would love to meet you

[@NicolasBras]

Thanks! Tell me if you come to Paris!

you didn't go back to the string instruments!

[@TheMatthew393]

I think you would be a better dad than I am

[@mathias841]

What

[@Flummiification]

Not to disrespect your work. But these instruments sound a lot clearer than yours usually tend to. It may be because of the materials used and the acoustics in these halls propably. You could easily put most of these with a classical orchestra. Again not to be mean or so I like the interesting sounds of your creative creations 😅 PS: also very nice playing demonstrations of yours

[@redstoner83polsinelli47]

tu es léonard de vinci mais pour les instruments

[@alexandreterroni1221]

pourquoi il y as t'il si peu de français qui s'intéresse à toi ?, t'es français pour tant donc je comprend pas !, moi j'ai de la chance d'être intéressé par toi et je suis français !

[@NicolasBras]

Je bosse pas mal en France, j'ai mon réseau, mais en ligne j'aime bien le côté international!

[@paintnamer6403]

This should be the only acceptable reason any construction project goes past the completion date.

[@custos3249]

With construction workers? Wait. You aren't seriously gonna have a go at the skin flute, are you? I was just joking.