Easily the most death metal thing to come across my desk this week (kinda sorta NSFW)

[Totem Polar]

The benefit of knowing a lot of scholarly musicians:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501834

[Maple Syrup Actual]

would play solo on

[Totem Polar]

The best part is that the jaw evidently still articulates--seen clearly in the collection photos. Akk akk akk... built in back up singer, muppet-style.


On the other hand, I'm reminded of yet another classic Bob Lee Swagger quote from "Shooter:"

"What kind of asshole'd think up a thing like this?"

[Peally]

Humans are monsters, as far as history is concerned this is fairly mundane and civilized.

[blues]

21718

"When they told me she was only stringing me along, I should've listened. Anyone up for 'I Ain't Got No-body'?"

[LOKNLOD]

Dethklok approved.

I want to know how it’s held together.

[Lester Polfus]

Is it wrong that I looked at that and immediately started trying to figure out a way to put steel strings and a Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker on it?

[OlongJohnson]

Never has there been a more perfect thread to post this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9GT9YgDfKU

[JodyH]

Humans are monsters, as far as history is concerned this is fairly mundane and civilized.
And even modern society is about 2 months without electricity away from creating a whole new and interesting set of macabre musical instruments.

[Robinson]

That's just obnoxious.

[Erik]

Am I the only one that wants to know what it sounds like? Down the rabbit hole of African lyre music videos I go.

[Totem Polar]

Am I the only one that wants to know what it sounds like?

Like a heady mix tape

[LOKNLOD]

And even modern society is about 2 months without electricity away from creating a whole new and interesting set of macabre musical instruments.

https://media.giphy.com/media/l3vRih3LZhEcVz7yM/giphy.gif

[Totem Polar]

Yeah, Jody is being a buzz kill and yanking our dicks. Everyone knows it's the breakdown of the food supply chain, not a few nights of romantic candle light, that sends us collectively into the abyss.

[JodyH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzOHq5WbQ8k

[Duelist]

Creepy. Wood is probably more resonant.

[JodyH]

Creepy. Wood is probably more resonant.
Depends on the tone you're trying to achieve with your performance.

Mongols could have drank their airag out of clay cups like other cultures, but drinking it out of human skulls set the tone for diplomatic negotiations.

[okie john]

Is it wrong that I looked at that and immediately started trying to figure out a way to put steel strings and a Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker on it?

I feel like gut strings would be more appropriate.


Okie John

[Rex G]

My wife, Dr. Joyce G, M.D., believes this skull was that of an elderly person, of African or Asian heritage. The removal of the top of the skull makes it difficult to confirm or eliminate African heritage. The hair does not appear to be African human, of course, but it could be animal hair, perhaps from the antelope. There does appear to be facial bone damage.

This “diagnosis” was made using an I-Phone screen, not a large monitor.

Perhaps, knowing the species of the antelope would be an indicator of the skull’s origin.

[Maple Syrup Actual]

Is it wrong that I looked at that and immediately started trying to figure out a way to put steel strings and a Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker on it?Yes. It should have been a Seymour Duncan Super Distortion.

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[1slow]

Death Lyre, must have been a leftist politician's skull.

[Totem Polar]

Yes. It should have been a Seymour Duncan Super Distortion.


One thing for sure: won’t need the neck pickup.

[LOKNLOD]

Death Lyre.

This needs to be the name of a band.

The pic from the OP could be the album cover.



But it should be folksy polka music.

[Edster]

Q: "Hey, do you have a song in your head?"

A: "No. I have a song in someone else's head."

[okie john]

The benefit of knowing a lot of scholarly musicians:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501834

From the museum link: "This unusual piece was purchased at the end of the 19th century and was originally thought to have come from South America when it was cataloged in 1906. It was eventually reattributed to Central Africa, although there is no known tradition to which this instrument may be assigned. Some have suggested that it may have been made for symbolic or clandestine ritual use, but most likely it is a sensational item made by a clever indigenous entrepreneur for trade and profit with Europeans in the 19th century."

Looks like a black springbuck might give the luthier a start on materials: https://www.safarihuntingafrica.com/project/springbuck-black/


Okie John

[JAD]

folksy polka music.

Thrash klezmer. Which I should invent.

[Cookie Monster]

Yeah, Jody is being a buzz kill and yanking our dicks. Everyone knows it's the breakdown of the food supply chain, not a few nights of romantic candle light, that sends us collectively into the abyss.

9 meals, that is what is currently in most people’s pantry AND the grocery stores, Day 4 or 5 is where the AR’s come out.

[blues]

9 meals, that is what is currently in most people’s pantry AND the grocery stores, Day 4 or 5 is where the AR’s come out.

Except in Kalifornia (and like states) where the hurling of insults and invective will be substituted for gun play.

[Lex Luthier]

Thrash klezmer. Which I should invent.

The Bad Livers beat you to it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_34tvI99N0

I would say that lyre needs some repair work, but it has good bones to work from.

[schüler]

Bastet: Lil' Ramses can't carry a tune to save his life.
Ptah: Hold my boza and watch this.

[Erik]

The Bad Livers beat you to it.


I'm going to say that Golem beat The Bad Livers at it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h03I0cO3kw

[blues]

Your stash ain't nothin' but trash...


https://youtu.be/Ayg23P-Yj-M

Can I get a cream soda or a Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray with that?

[Joe in PNG]

No thanks, I prefer headless guitars.

[Lex Luthier]

No thanks, I prefer headless guitars.

Annnnd PNG Joe wins the thread.