Introducing the Glissotar

[@Dave-lr2wo]

Finally an instrument for the cantina musicians in Star Wars.

[@AyyyGabagool]

TIME TO JIZZ

[@2_Normal_Ted_Junior]

And the simplicity of the design means every hipster on Earth is going to buy one and bother people at parties.

[@Salador1777]

Yeah the knitted masks really were the icing on this goofy cake lmao

[@Salador1777]

​@@AyyyGabagoolslapping my knee while circle jerkin on my jazz vibes

[@1MarkKeller]

@@AyyyGabagool Time to GLIZZ actually

[@ajclarke9189]

Squidward was truly ahead of his time. He was playing this kind of stuff on a run-of-the-mill, buttoned clarinet.

[@BDoggy45]

I would put a print of the holes on his clarinet on the mat 😂

[@adzy31]

Well done, you've built an analogue Otamatone.

[@_Geist]

now we have the Automatone :)

[@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy]

@@_Geist Finally... The Manualmatone

[@axhed]

i use it as the ringtone on my obamaphone.

[@matturner6890]

obamna foam

[@roecocoa]

​@@matturner6890I've got this feeling So appealing For us to get together and sing (sing!)

[@martyshwaartz971]

Choosing Donna Lee to demo a "fretless" wind instrument is WILD

[@maxalaintwo3578]

That’s so level 10 stuff right there

[@YumaUesaka]

I wonder if it's an oblique shout out to jaco pastorius

[@graey2]

@@YumaUesaka if it is, why not play the gliss at the end of the A section?

[@YumaUesaka]

missed opportunity

[@robertdebry777]

Wait until you hear about the trombone

[@goofiestgoobleton]

Babe wake up, new musical instrument just dropped!

[@phlyphlo]

You have created the prefect instrument to talk back to my cats in the language they provided for us.

[@phlyphlo]

Okay this is cool. I will as a bard l conjure elemental cats with this.

[@ToriZealot]

Good news for Free Jazz and Noise Afficiados

[@SolidlinkThe]

Unironically exactly correct

[@SCRATCHBALLZ]

😅

[@politesociety]

I look forward to one thousand renditions of sucking air menacingly through glissotar at my local noise show.

[@axhed]

can't wait for kenny g to pick one up

[@classicdetective1086]

honestly really excited to hear how it's going to be used. microtonal free jazz going to be about twice as easy to make with this too

[@puzzzl]

Really cool that someone managed to come up with something genuinely new and novel, with specific features that other similar instruments lack. Whether or not this ends up taking off (I think the world has been hesitant to embrace new instruments for a reason), hats off to the inventors for the excellent work done here.

[@Atmatan]

There are a _lot_ of new instruments made each year. Do you.... Not use the internet?

[@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician]

It’s not new, this design is a century old.

[@puzzzl]

@@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician oh well

[@chloejackson-reynolds444]

@@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician it's not, the other ones had a completely different mechanism

[@filippomari3442]

​@@chloejackson-reynolds444 absolutely not, the same exact mechanism was already invented in the 1920s

[@hetza7198]

Fretless clarinet, i swear a love limitless instruments

[@AMPProf]

[@LeakyJAZZ]

its conical bore, instead of cylindrical (the tube gets wider throughout it's entire length, instead staying the same width all the way until the bell, like a clarinet) making it more like a fretless (soprano) saxophone

[@spanqueluv9er]

@hetza7198 ^*I, not i ^*I, not a ^This instrument is definitely not limitless🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Would you like to try again?

[@LeakyJAZZ]

@@spanqueluv9er what the fuck?

[@kishascape]

This is very limited and something no one will ever need or wide use. Gimmick fad device.

[@ArsenalTheProtogen]

this has the tone of a clarinet and a saxophone combined and im digging it

[@Torrent.Amador]

Clariphone... Saxonet?

[@gianclgar]

Prices: Glissotar - purple, amaranth wooden version - 3000 EUR (VAT incl.) + postal fee Glissotar - purple, amaranth wooden version - 2400 EUR (VAT incl.) + postal fee (Leonardo Birthday Sale: until May 31) Glissotar Jam - black, 3D-printed version - 1800 EUR (VAT incl.) + postal fee

[@m.f.3347]

honestly those aren't unreasonable prices for a brand new design

[@gianclgar]

I’m just posting the data. No judgements!

[@versteegkasper957]

it's cheaper than i thought lol.

[@PracticaProphetica]

I think the price is high, considering there is no keywork or special hole placement. We just need the Chinese to make some clones for a few hundred dollars.

[@NealFosterHD]

@@PracticaProphetica 我正在做！

[@drrodopszin]

I thought this is going to be some obscure meme video, but this is actually very cool! I'm happy that the creator is from my country as well! ❤️🇭🇺

[@MooImABunny]

yoo I came here with the same expectation

[@Veevaldimoney]

I too bear an "sz" in the old family name.

[@maninblack3410]

As expensive as the 3D printed versions of this instrument are… it should’ve been an obscure meme video

[@NM-ir6wd]

Foley artists everywhere...rejoice!

[@therealhelmholtz]

Rejoice!!! 🥂🎉🍻

[@kiloliters]

as goofy as this instrument is, I also just know that in like 10 years someone is going to be playing one of these and make the greatest music that I have ever heard

[@parkerstroh6586]

I think it’s pretty sleek honestly

[@ivythay4259]

@@parkerstroh6586 it can be both, and it is

[@aaronellson9849]

How is it any goofier looking or sounding than every other oboe or clarinet that already exists….?

[@kathrynelrod5570]

it’s gonna be jacob collier

[@kiloliters]

@@kathrynelrod5570 yeahhh you're probably right.

[@finpark7785]

I'm surprised I have not seen more well-crafted novel instruments like this. It's beautiful

[@wingstrongwingstrong]

wow wow wow, as I understand, this tape covers the strip-shaped air duct, and where it's pressed down, everything higher up on the air duct is closed. To press down like a string to make the wind system work, and what a sound, simple and ingenious

[@chloejackson-reynolds444]

They use a magnet to make it snap

[@glissonic6830]

You can read more about the design here: glissonic.com/2024/04/25/part-1-something-completely-new-and-unusual-in-music/

[@Califlower-official]

This is like a violin mixed a saxophone!! Someone has to play Sax and Violins by Talking heads with this

[@papics]

To play a fretless instrument is already a kind of crazy in my mind (I have played the clarinet in my teens, now I play the bass - with frets), but to imagine somebody waking up one morning and think, I wish I had a fretless woodwind instrument :D Congrats, this is true innovation, that actually looks something useful for the music scene.

[@glissonic6830]

Thank you! :)

[@DataBroth]

What an incredible instrument I hope to save enough to purchase one one day, I've been fascinated by your design now for over a year so glad these made it to market, I can't wait to see them in action, in the hands of talented musicians

[@glissonic6830]

Thank you! We have a 20% Leonardo's Birthday sale for Glissotar Purpleheart until 31 May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd77oxflGGwuNWlF72sLnThdPrtyQqjbYdD-06mWFt7YlUR-g/viewform

[@KatzRool]

This is extremely awesome. A new KIND of instrument, and not just some gimmick. Definitely gonna be keeping my ear out for this.

[@healdrop9313]

It’s not really, it’s just a slide saxophone, and the design for the 3D print was posted to thingiverse a decade ago. The idea is cool, which is why it’s been around for a while; this iteration is just startup trash, sadly.

[@ashtondavies]

I remember seeing this instrument in a 'weird instruments' video posted many years ago! This one definitely stood out to me. Very cool.

[@brazilchem]

This is the only instrument that can hypnotize ALL snakes.

[@CrabRango]

This is genuinely fascinating, I was skeptical going into this but I really like it

[@coreyeatsdetroit9733]

Congrats, Figrin D'an has recruited you as an honory member of the Modal Nodes!

[@NgaTaeOfficial]

And it can do the laser Pew Pews too!

[@praisethebeatles]

A little pricey for my means, but golly you guys thank you SO MUCH for not obfuscating the mechanism! I’ve got a cedar tube and some strip magnets, and I’m not above mutilating a clarinet for the mouthpiece. I’m gonna try and DIY up my own!

[@bruciex4574]

Let us know how it goes please 🙏🏻

[@noracola5285]

Make me a bass one, pleeeeeeease!

[@davidmcrae4791]

I saw this in a award event for best new instruments. Looks awesome!

[@glissonic6830]

Probably it was the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in 2022! :) Here you can read about it more: glissonic.com/2024/05/10/part-2-what-has-happened-so-far-with-the-glissotar/

[@CalvinChikelue]

I’ll be honest, haven’t played an instrument since piano back in middle school ~25 years ago but this is genuinely innovative enough to make me want to practice it

[@bronistevoni]

I wonder what a more orchestral ensemble of these would sound like!

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

About the same as one composed of sax players. Sax players don't get to join the orchestra.

[@jankington216]

Neither do piranha plants from yoshi's island (that's what it sounds like)

[@miketackabery7521]

​​@@NuncNuncNuncNuncyes they do. There's quite a lot of classical music written for sax, as well as orchestra with sax. There's even quartets with a sax Though almost all written before the mid twentieth century..

[@modalmixture]

Me playing alto sax samples with my keyboard’s ribbon controller:

[@scopilio13]

i'm pretty sure they made this back in the 20's. cool that they are bringing it back.

[@glissonic6830]

Over the past 120 years, several attempts have been made to create sliding saxophones. You’re probably thinking of the King C Saxoprano. In this blog post, we showcase instruments similar to the Glissotar, including the King C Saxoprano: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/

[@cooperleher10]

What is the song/performance at 0:41? I love that groove and the masks!

[@zellevmusic232]

i want to hear this in an orchestra, very interesting!

[@wandering_heart]

Like the woodwind response to the trombone. Kinda love it. Wish I had the embouchure for reeds :/ always been a brass guy.

[@AlexRellort]

Absolutely love the idea of this. Hope this goes beautifully well. And also, I WAS HERE🔥

[@moth.cinnabar]

this instrument makes the beginning to "rhapsody in blue" look easy

[@johnanderson9337]

I’d LOVE to get one if it was less expensive. 1900 USD for a 3D printed one is kind of insane

[@pouzzler]

I can't afford it, but it's a very normal price for people who have to make a living selling very small batches. Same everywhere, for example recumbent bikes.

[@chickenbobby666]

How many hours do you think you'd have to spend to make your own though...

[@manolosardo3661]

​@@chickenbobby666I'm in the process of creating a similar instrument (with a double reed rather than a sax mouthpiece). I'm making it out of wood, and I'm about 15 hours into it. (10 hours of modeling, 2 hours of material recovery, 3 hours of turning). And I'm almost done. If we consider the French hourly minimum wage (lowest legal salary), that’s €140. The materials didn't cost me anything but if I had to buy them it would cost me around a hundred euros at most. Considering that I have 10 hours of work left (in reality much less), it would cost a total of €390. We put in the margin, and that’s €500, then taxes (20% in France): €600. There is no industrial process, it is wood, made by hand. I imagine they use very different techniques but $1900 is just excessive. (and @Johnanderson9337 I could share the digital model if you want. (when it's finished))

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

If you don't mind plastic, there will eventually be designs on Thingiverse, and by eventually I mean there's been a prototype design posted for nearly a decade.

[@TheAechBomb]

​@@chickenbobby666considering you can hit print, then come back 12 hours later to get a finished part, not long at all. the printer is the one taking the time burden

[@bazzatron9482]

I feel like I've been waiting all my life for the acoustic otamatone.

[@chloejackson-reynolds444]

You need to give one to every living member of the AACM... Would love to see what Anthony Braxton or Roscoe Mitchell would do with this

[@thesoundsmith]

Only a few of us know that abbreviation - Ali Akbar College of Music in Fairfax, CA... But I totally agree.

[@chloejackson-reynolds444]

@@thesoundsmith Association for the Advancement of Creative Music, from Chicago

[@mattnieri1202]

Yes!

[@dylanp629]

the only thing this needs to sell me is to compare it against a clarinet on Rhapsody in Blue

[@dwm1156]

The gliss!

[@martinschroederglst]

That's what I was thinking!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

I'm amazed none of the low notes cause a gap to form at one of the higher notes. Impressive! In my non-electronic music life, I'm the maker of Boyd Reeds, which are actually polyester double reeds, for Scottish smallpipes, and border pipes, chanters, and drones, which are a couple different groups of bagpipes. I've worked with various instrument makers, and personal clients often with historical instruments needing working double reeds, not sensitive to moisture, or lack thereof. I'd love to play around with this. back in the earlier 2000's I built my own simple pocket sax.

[@glissonic6830]

Thank you for your feedback! We have an Ambassador program where you can try out the instrument. Check the map to see if there's an ambassador near you, and if so, please get in touch with us. You can find all the information here: glissonic.com/2024/02/26/blog-2/

[@DetroitMicroSound]

@@glissonic6830 Thank you, so much! 👍

[@TachyBunker]

This is absolutely phenomenal!

[@RichardAmesMusic]

Hadn't thought of that - bravo!

[@uniformsyter927]

Babe wake up! A new instrument just dropped.

[@elbateador]

Sounds really good! 😎👍

[@pvillez]

Putting a clickable linkto the product in the description would help you a lot.

[@JaxonHaze]

Wow an actual good new instrument! Kind of similar to a fretless neck, so cool!

[@PeterTomlinsonComposer]

I saw this one on Benn Jordan’s channel! I like it a lot 😊

[@1MarkKeller]

AMAZING!

[@MihalyPeto]

Imádom! Jó lenne, ha nagyobb reklámot kapna itthon! Inkább erről néznék egy 1 órás műsort a magyar tv-ben, mintsem a sok politikai bullshit-ről. Gratulálok hozzá, egyet én is be akarok szerezni ebből a hangszerből! :D

[@glissonic6830]

Köszönjük szépen! Igyekszünk itthon és nemzetközileg is minél több helyen megjelenni!

[@SothThe69th]

i can only read this as Glizzotar, which changes the meaning and intent of it immensely.

[@glissonic6830]

One of the "ancestors" of the Glissotar is the Hungarian tárogató, which is where the name comes from. You can read more about it here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/

[@1049662]

A *very* interesting instrument! If I'm honest I'm not personally in love the sound, I think it was both better and worse without the mouthpiece? I'd like to know if a double reed is possible.

[@filippomari3442]

I'm sorry but didn't this already existed? The King company used to make it in the early 20's in Cleveland, it was called a slide saxophone I think. Dr. Cohen owns one in his saxophone collection: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pl7FZ3xnns2baNU minute 7.19

[@KVVUZRSCHK]

Yep! The comments on it were, that it was more a novelty instrument, and wasn't build to have a great lifespan, so few of them lasted to this day. The concept and mechanism looks absolutely identical though.

[@CraigEstep]

Looks like it to me.

[@organfairy]

My exact thought too.

[@TiagoNugentComposer]

Yup. My dad built several versions of a slide saxophone, one which was exactly like this, and another that had a piece of metal sliding over the hole instead.

[@glowinggrenade]

YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT

[@Clarineat]

Wow I need you guys to come on my show and tell me about this. Very cool.

[@glissonic6830]

Please contact us: glissonic.com/contact-us/

[@Snickers18827]

This this is absolutly amazing i need one!

[@glissonic6830]

You can contact us here: glissonic.com/contact-us/ or place your order here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd77oxflGGwuNWlF72sLnThdPrtyQqjbYdD-06mWFt7YlUR-g/viewform

[@CornoDaTaylor]

Similar to the novelty slide/strap saxophones King made in the 1920's, very cool to see someone revisiting the idea 100 years later :0

[@glissonic6830]

Right. Several musicians have explored woodwind instruments based on similar concepts throughout history. The King C Saxsoprano is one notable example. Read more about the history of instruments built on similar principles and the story of the Glissotar on our history page: glissonic.com/history/

[@utvpoop]

I believe "-tar" comes from Tárogató, a Hungarian woodwind instrument which has the same shape. The guy featured in the video is also Hungarian.

[@glissonic6830]

Yes, you are right, we wrote about this here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/

[@neilsmall1487]

...I sense John Coltrane's "sheets of sound" was an attempt to make his tenor and soprano saxophone release the sounds of this invention...wonderful...

[@maxshantz7347]

Waiting for the baritone sax version

[@RossPlunkett]

Holy crap, I played this thing! Did we play together at a free jazz thing in a Budapest run by two Germans? I play trumpet and you let me try this thing out

[@33akachi10]

Curious to see how a metal one would sound, maybe even glass? IDK, also why no markings for traditional notes (like a fretless bass with lines/markings)?

[@pattmahiney]

Nehlybel is DANCING IN HIS GRAVE 😩😩😤😤😤 nice. Thanks for sharing. Amazing ingenuity.

[@mattnieri1202]

I saw a diagram of this in a Bart Hopkins book almost 30 years ago. This is clearly better/best quality. Love it!!!

[@robbydonaghy8735]

Just adding for anyone else that is curious, the book is Musical Instrument Design, and yeah, he goes through a few ways to make them, including one like this, one with a bent strip of wood and some weatherstripping, and one with a steel tube and flexible magnetic tape. Definitely nice to see a fancy option though.

[@giacomoriva9842]

Make a double reed one for oboists! Id love to toy around with it

[@spiritseas]

this is seriously awesome. i’m so so into this. i’m gonna be playing one of these someday. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@JustinLe]

help i love this so much

[@MawoDuffer]

The noise is incredible

[@ricinro]

Centuries from now in some galactic dive....

[@drwalmgc]

Wow, it sounds nice, fireless sax.

[@ianbertram1872]

I’m curious if there could be a double-reed version of this

[@Hexsyn]

I uh.... am i alone in being confused about this being a high quality shitpost or a silly yet good and sincere idea?

[@mrpositronia]

I thought it was an April Fools video. If the Royal Philharmonic orchestra start using these, then I'll take the instrument seriously.

[@yukesmusic]

Trombonist / EWI fans rejoice! So eager to see this. Will it distribute in China?

[@eliasgitterman6266]

new instrument just dropped

[@Orange_Wowee]

Wake up babe new instrument dropped

[@OhWowTre]

Now THIS, is innovation!

[@JBeestonian]

Would love to see a version of this without a reed but instead a blowing edge akin to a flute.

[@cnucklz09]

I bought my kid an Otamatone for Christmas and this is like the professional grown up version of it.

[@mr.wublin]

this thing sounds wicked! I really dig it, such a fun concept.

[@playNsleep]

looks and sounds amazing though perhaps its just me, all of the price options are quite restrictive

[@Dark_Pragmatist_]

"Introducing the Gli-" *Stanky Luigi's Mansion jazz starts playing

[@PeppoMusic]

I'd love to have a bit more specific information on the material of the 3D printed version other than "bio-composite material", because right now that just sounds like PLA, which most of the time is a less than ideal material for a woodwind instrument. Due to its high degradation risk from moisture, heat and UV-radiation, and its low density (and you want a relatively high density material for woodwinds for tonal clarity). Though there's variations of the common PLA type that are slightly better, would be great some assurance on that matter if this is the case given the price point.

[@Zebulization]

I was taught that brass instruments started out as wood, but metal was needed to make a louder sound. Would a brass version be louder than the composite version?

[@flyingpiggy1475]

Well it’s acting as a kind of clarinet, bassoon, type instrument. Not really the brass sound that’s more hard hitting

[@TheHolyBoink]

A fretless wind instrument is such a clever idea

[@CalebClingon-oj9es]

Squidward that was amazing! You managed to play only all of the wrong notes!

[@hellospenjo]

Wow i would love to try this! Love the concept

[@glissonic6830]

We have an Ambassador program where you can try out the instrument. Check the map to see if there's an ambassador near you, and if so, please get in touch with us. You can find all the information here: glissonic.com/2024/02/26/blog-2/

[@AlexanderSuppermann]

It's like non-electronic theremin ❤

[@Torrent.Amador]

Jazz is being changed forever oh my god

[@pattyluss]

Honestly exciting stuff here!

[@russellzauner]

I can make AMAZING fart noises with this

[@fluffycritter]

It's like an acoustic Otamatone. I think I love it.

[@SS_Psyops]

Gonna do a trio for Pedal Steel, Theremin and Glissotar. Infini-tet

[@d0nnyr0n]

The slide saxophone was a thing that very much already existed. Like, this is a cool new design probably, but I think it's a little much to say it's a completely new and original idea that nobody's ever done before like it seems to be marketed as.

[@d0nnyr0n]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pl7FZ3xnns2baNU

[@glissonic6830]

In one of our blog posts, we have gathered instruments similar to the Glissotar, which can be found here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/ We admire similar instruments and aim to highlight ideas like the Glissotar, both from the past and present.

[@Mephistopholies]

I'm ashamed of how surprised I am with how good it sounds.

[@niuthon]

Ever heard about MOE family of instruments by Bart Hopkin? the same construction principle, including the magnetic foil

[@glissonic6830]

Yes, you're right. Thank you for your comment. We've written more about instruments similar to the Glissotar here: glissonic.com/2024/05/21/part-3-similar-instruments-to-the-glissotar-in-the-past-and-present/

[@niuthon]

@@glissonic6830 ok ok, wish you luck!

[@RobertAdamant]

thought it was going to be a glizzy meme but this is also nice

[@NaidotASMR]

It sounds incredible! But the intro had me cringe at first. The instrument still seems to need more fine tuning before I’d consider such a device

[@JimmyMcG33]

Really cool idea

[@VarionJimmy]

Absolutely brilliant idea! 👍

[@glissonic6830]

Thank you!

[@clacclackerson3678]

I'd like to hear his whole version of Round Midnight, it sounded great around 2:00.

[@Kolar522]

We need a bass version of this.

[@Jinkaza1882]

Any working being done on a cornett? Brass players want some microtones too please.

[@glissonic6830]

Not at the moment, but it’s worth subscribing to our newsletter-we always announce new developments there first: glissonic.com/contact-us/