Using a gin bottle as tone bar...

Fred Kinbom · From: Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.

...well, a small one from an airplane:

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

Smile

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Will Houston · From: Tempe, Az

What is your tuning on that one? kind of a India sound,that I like or maybe it was the gin bottle.

Mick Hearn · From: United Kingdom

Everything you use on those strings imparts a different sound so its always worth experimenting. Does sound a bit Indian but I thinks that's more to how its being played.

I remember many years ago I arrived at a gig only find I had left my bag with picks and bars behind. I asked the barman for an empty schweppes bottle which worked quite well and got me out of a muddle. That and fingernails got through the gig although one or two looked astonished when they saw what I was using.
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John Limbach · From: Billings, Montana, USA

For really outstanding tone, be sure to drink the gin first!

Fred Kinbom · From: Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.

It is E minor tuning (like G minor, but on the baritone Weissenborn): B-E-B-E-G-B, low to high.

Yes, drinking the gin first is essential. Wink

It is good to know that most round objects can work as emergency tone bars.
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