I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while… A little while back now, me and my girlfriend were sitting in her room, when a beautifully intriguing melodic sound came out of nowhere from one of the gardens down our street. Opening the window further, to have a good look around, we just couldn’t make out where it was coming from.
Out of our window...
All I knew was someone, a good couple of houses down, was having a garden party of sorts. The instrument was so intriguing and unusual, I just had to record it. I grabbed my trusty little Zoom H2 (unfortunately this time without the Rycote windshield, so I had to do some EQing to the sound afterwards) and stuck my arm out of the window to have a good capture.
The recording isn’t perfect (by a long shot) but it definitely captures this unusual melodic instrument… I wonder if I’ll ever find out what it actually is?
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