Lithophone Presentation by Jeff Shook

Jeff Shook describes and demonstrates a lithophone. This is a collection of rocks arranged like the keys of a xylophone.
Presentation for Salida Middle School.

[@thegreatestnewb9641]

Old dude: you can make music by slapping concrete. The audience: violently slaps concrete.

[@sicarii_Tactica]

Yup. Can tell the population to do anything. Then a few still continue to slap the ground way after everyone else have stopped.

[@user-bf6gz8ej4o]

Most people are like apes.

[@elisemiller13]

@@sicarii_Tactica These were children

[@sicarii_Tactica]

@@elisemiller13 🤣🤣

[@__reigne3976]

He plays at 6:24

[@davi55luppy_1wastakenisafk4]

6:18

[@thomhjanks6506]

God bless you

[@ReptileRaptureRR]

Lmao

[@holly50575]

Wow... Something I never knew. I guess I never had music in my soul. Thank you so much for sharing this with an old rock hound!!!!! I picked them up all my life, but I never thought to listen to them 😊❤️

[@paullangford8179]

Lithophone ~ rock sound; xylophone ~ wood sound.

[@jacwilson2578]

Marimba~wood sound

[@MegaLadafan]

Watch - Qavaldash Gobustan, especially how Chingiz Mehdiyev plays in Qavaldash

[@veronica5174]

In south africa millions of stone patterns made from rinnging stones! It ia amazing to see them. Mike Tellenger discover them - Stone circles. Unbeliveble!!!

[@BardofCornwall]

Very cool!

[@saozinhaabreu9129]

Nada hoje é como é antes, mas tudo é consequência de uma descoberta improvisada de um passado tão distante e os sons das batidas nessa pedras trazem a tona os mais belos sentimentos . Maravilha!

[@waynej.harris7475]

Wow - thx!

[@DB-hm6lb]

Finally I got info in this rock that my husband found thanks

[@merlynchesterman2370]

What are the hammers made of? I have found some musical stones in Devon, UK and need to know what to play them with.

[@elisemiller13]

@@merlynchesterman2370 wood

[@Aminashins]

(6:24) he REALLY though he ate

[@amparoospina562]

Genial

[@NikkianaJones]

Where were all of these rocks found?

[@davekirchner6515]

I believe Jeff collected these around his house in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Then used a computer tuner app to determine each rock's note. And experimented with various mallets from other instruments.

[@HighlanderNorth1]

@@davekirchner6515I would've never considered the possibility of being able to use digital note/tone determination software or apps to determine the notes of rocks being hit with percussion mallets. I seem to recall hearing that the Clovis people developed early analog chorus and phase shifting effects processors! Some attribute the flanger, delay and wah wah effects to them, but it's more likely the Choctaw were responsible for those developments! 👌😉👌

[@Roadrun98]

Usually on the floor and in the ground, you'd be hard pressed to find one in a tree.

[@clownsforclowningaround]

definitely the ground

[@osiris4260]

I found a rock like near the 21 mule canyon in Nevada I thought it was special since it made a sound when compared to the rest of the rocks

[@Firstname-ei9il]

Funny thing is That he doesn’t even play the instrument

[@elisemiller13]

he did, you just weren't patient enough to hear

[@TheCrystalGlow]

Whoever has that obnoxious crackly water bottomless need to stop it.