The Quilcom HYPERBEAM: Have a Blast!!

[Spogg]

Did you need to fix anything I mucked up in the process?

I didn’t find anything.
Many thanks again!

[k brown]

Phew!

[MikeRS]

What a fat and full sound this one makes, that is amazing. Never heard of such an instrument.
great job!

[R&R]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRD3c-WAec

Sounds like Hyperbeam, but mark 1 anno 5000 BC?

[Spogg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRD3c-WAec

Sounds like Hyperbeam, but mark 1 anno 5000 BC?

I can see (hear) what you mean!

I have to ask, did you search for “something that sounds a bit like the Quilcom Hyperbeam but is really ancient”?

[R&R]

R&R wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRD3c-WAec

Sounds like Hyperbeam, but mark 1 anno 5000 BC?

I can see (hear) what you mean!

Yeah kind of felt similar. Only listened through laptop speakers though
Just missing the low frequencies of Hyperbeam maybe.

I have to ask, did you search for “something that sounds a bit like the Quilcom Hyperbeam but is really ancient”?

Not even close. Youtube's algorithms at play... Might be yourself or some of your subscribers that's interested in ancient instruments? Ended up in my recommended feed that way? perhaps... I might have listened to a
interpretation of the epic of Gilgamesh. Hmmm...

But I do search and watch some clips of folks performing old traditional music now and then... from different countries/cultures.
People have lost their minds nowadays, forgotten/been tricket out of their true history... and lost footing So it's always relieving listening to things truly spawned from something ancient.

Btw...
Looking at this version of the instrument, looks like they made it of steel beams as well? Unsure...
The original one must have been wooden beams...

[Spogg]

I’ve done a ton of YouTube to research my various sims, some of the instruments being of ancient origin and played in traditional ethnic ways. If you’ve be at it too, that explains why you were offered it to view, I guess. A good thing!

I listened on my wonderful Sennheiser HD 280 pro headphones and the drum sounded amazing. Good headphones make a big difference.

I went back and read all of Peter Pringle’s info on YouTube. He made the Lyre using Cedar, and brass instead of gold. Fascinating how these remarkable instruments can be recreated from minimal information. Well worth a read.

[R&R]

I went back and read all of Peter Pringle’s info on YouTube. He made the Lyre using Cedar, and brass instead of gold. Fascinating how these remarkable instruments can be recreated from minimal information. Well worth a read.

That would have been something, recreating the gold parts too...
Hmmm, strange... The cedar bottom part of the lyre body is clearly visible, but the rest...metal? Would explain the Hyperbeam:ish sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoLHfnr5Gc

I listened on my wonderful Sennheiser HD 280 pro headphones and the drum sounded amazing. Good headphones make a big difference.

Have a pair of Sennheisers as well. They don't seem appeal to some, but I've always liked the general character of all Sennheisers headphones...

I'm just too lazy usually browsing from the couch... feels like there is no point plugging in my (any) headphones directly into my laptop. The built in soundinterface amps are laughably/amazingly bad

Edit:
The small silver one is metal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU4QRxsZhjg
Another recreation... resonator of stainless... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOFYT7w4GI
Must be some metal in Peters version as well... I get that metallic taste in my mouth listening to it

[tulamide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRD3c-WAec

Sounds like Hyperbeam, but mark 1 anno 5000 BC?

Not that anyone would care, because it is about sound similarities, but this is not the golden lyre of Ur. The original, while impressive because of its record as oldest stringed instrument found in fragmented form, missed the lower body (the resonance room) completely. What we see here is an imagination of it. It also had 11 strings. And the sound is altered. Originally, it sounds like a deep guitar. Not nearly as "metallic". You can hear that on the Lyre project, whose goal it was to scientifically accurately recreate the lyre in playable form.

The original, that survived since 2500 BC, had a heartbreaking end. In 2003, in the US-led Iraq war, the museum conserving the artifact was pillaged four times. The lyre was torn to pieces by the pillagers, to get off the gold.

[R&R]

Sad... so many historical artifacts continuously gets destroyed