The fron2 played with a dazzling array of bows, brushes, straws, and sticks! 

If I wasn’t poor as hell, I would totally buy one of these!!! This looks like so much fun and especially for experimental music! Just Imagine throwing a contact mic on that thing and running it through delay and fuzz!

Finally an arpeggiator for the symphony orchestra!

Wish you the best of luck getting these out to people. I live in apartment, so no acoustic instruments for me, but I absolutely love this thing. I'm imagining what it would sound like with pairs of strings like a 12 string guitar 😭

I asked in your previous video what this was called, and you answered with this video, "The Fron2". Thinking about how to classify this instrument, I realize it's a new subclass of harp. I also had the realization that percussive element can be added to this easily. I really want to play with this instrument, will you please make me one, or at least send me the plans for it? I need the "Frontu" in my life. Daily.

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Congratulations!

Wow! It's like an analogue pad. I really love it! I've thought about a similar concept in the past but never got around to actualizing it. Seeing your work is very motivating. Thank you.

i really hope you get hired by a studio to make a soundtrack, your work is beautiful

I wonder how it would sound with two bows in each hand. If it sounds particularly interesting, it may be even more interesting to put a pedal controlled motor on it with a free wheel to handle the spinning. Very cool invention and instrument!

Such beautiful unique sounds! I wonder if it would work to attach it to a treadle sewing machine base and control the rotation with your feet?

Fantastic! As a harp player, I felt like a lot of your tools sounded like harp, which is funny because you were bowing, not just plucking. What notes or intervals are you tuned to?

Am I the only one who thinks these instruments belong in the Minecraft soundtrack? Your creations are amazing

This is some 19th century qing dynasty forbidden city palace court entrance music level shit

Fron I've been fascinated by your creations ever since i stumbled upon your Uke hurdy-gurdy invention. I too am a musician/inventor but have yet to combine my two passions. I think you are really onto something here, especially if you can play or sell the instrument to a production company for musicals/film, being totally honest here, could be big bucks and acknowledgement if you can find the right connections. I wish you the best from New Brunswick Canada, one creative mind to another! Ps is there anywhere i could learn how to build and/or buy the plans to the uke-gurdy?

I hope you realize how cool this is, truly.

This thing is actually so incredible. My mind goes to the sheer versatility of it. Any old joe schmo could pick this up and create an absolute gorgeous set of sounds totally royalty free purely by intuition, all by hand. Absolutely love the sort of analog freedom it exudes

Could you tell us more about the name fron2?

I hope you try making an entire album out of this, experimenting with different usecases and styles within the instrument's constraints. The possibilities with this seems boundless. Could probably fuse very well with different ethnic music, especially something like Norwegian folk, or even Malian music (+ the rest of the Sahel region).

Such a unique and beautiful instrument. My favorite sounding tools you used are the comb and straw

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To what notes are the strings tuned? As a composer this is very interesting. Thank you for sharing your beautiful instruments with the world!!

Wow...sounds like a combination between a harp, a hammered dulcimer, and wind chimes, with reverb -- brilliant!

The human creativity never ceases to amaze me. AI will never win. The sound of pure magic, this instrument.

Thats a mechanical synthesizer! It sounds like a whole ambient song in one instrument. It would take some machines to reproduce it digital. Imagine adding drums to this mechanic, that play anglongside how fast youre winding it.

So, how is this categorized?.

This is soooo beautiful!!! Just one question: what type of strings did you use? They sound a little bit like guzheng strings to me.

What an instrument! I love the vibrato effect similar to the spinning Leslie speakers! WOW!

I'd purchase one, but how?

Maybe... try standing it vertical, non-rotating, playing it by plucking, sliding and bending on the strings.

You are a genius. THANKS FOR YOUR WORK. it’s amazing 🤩

I wonder if adding more segments would add more patters, like how there are sorta 2 sound patterns on the instrument.

This might seem like a weird suggestion, but a soft brush against those rotating strings like a paint-brush should probably create a most interesting result.

This thing sounds gorgeous. The middle part especially.

Laurie Anderson will be calling you.

Ok, more strings than I thought. You could change the tunings too. Resonator really works well. That's a hum-dinger!

Well, Guelf is a long way from România 🎉 enchanting instrument. Congratulations 🎊

3:15 That sounds like a violin in a Beethoven Symphony. Thank you for sharing. This is a magnificent invention.

I noticed the tuners on this viewer's left. Great thought. I'm stumped by the multiple dowels' function, over on the right of the bridge.

Этот инструмент можно усовершенствовать и будет лучше!

This is enchanting

Wonderful! The sound of the guitar pick combination surprised me the most, b.t.w.

a foot pump (a la vintage singer sewing machine or wool spinner) would give you both hands so you could do your custom bow on the short side and the comb on the long side.

This is so incredible and otherworldly. Like hearing music from another planet

you're actually the coolest

I swear I've heard something that sounds exactly like this in one of the songs on the Minecraft soundtrack. It's a wonderful sound.

Frank Zappa would have been highly appreciative. I know I am

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Hello! This is incredible instrument, really fairy-sounding! But i was impressed with uku-wheelie (ukulele moded as hurdy-gurdy). I really want to build one for myself, out of which material the wheel was made? Just plywood, wooden plank or something else?

Wow, this is so wonderful! ❤

I just found this at 2 a.m and I think I became your 6000th subscriber. The music and instruments in your video are very beautiful and I think they could definitely be used for game music or the like.

Wavetable sounds

This a beautiful thing Fron, the sound is incredible. I saw the one on your brother's instagram several weeks back which appeared to have a flywheel, I assume it works just as well with/without that addition? Also, what material do you construct the spoked bridge-wheel out of? Is it wood? It's amazing how much sound the resonator produces. Look forward to hearing more from this instrument!

Excellent idea. Curious to know how different tubes will perform, ie of brass, glass etc, different diameters. Although difficult to replicate, I'm fascinated by the noise swirling water can sometimes make when an echo is made inside of a steel tube and the water is drained out (happens sometimes in my large stainless steel thermos). The noise created is a swirling pitch the rapidly goes high and above hearing... similar to the effect made by black-hole mergers when the simulations are put to sound.

It's a cool concept, but the one thing I wonder about it is, how would you get different pitches from it, or different chords? Still really interesting, but in practice I'm not sure how it would follow chord changes.

What happens if you put a bow on both sides of the fret at once. I imagine you would need a 2nd person to achieve this as you need a whole hand to turn the drive shaft.

This is really cool! Beautiful sound!

You should try to put two such The fron2 one on the other, the first one will have clockwise rotation, the second one will have counterclockwise rotation and try to play like that, and you can also try to make a foot drive so that you don't have to turn the knob all the time, but press the pedal with your foot.

Different tools provide such a wide range of tones! I heard the equivilant of five or six instruments. You should mount it on a table with a foot treadle, like an old manual sewing machine, so that you can play with both hands.

It sounds really good!! Is this the first version? Hopefully in some time the fron2 obtains a dedicated fanbase

Have you played both sides at the same time? It’s beautiful esp. with the straw

I love this soo much!! How many strings are there? I saw from one of the other comments that it's tuned to Am7 and Em7, what other tunings do you think could work? I think a maj7 chord with extensions might be interesting...

I could see Bjork using this! You should contact her if you can!

The sound from the straw was so surprisingly delicate and pretty. My favourite.

The comb makes it sound like a low fidelity recording. very cool.

Amazing sounds! Such a wonderful invention

Very beautiful, sounds similar to a Japanese Koto . I enjoy the different timbres with each of the bows, comb , brush etc.

I wonder what it would sound like if you mounted two of these fron2's perpendicular to eachother with its strings touching. It would need an intricate construction that's for sure.

Sounds like a dream. I could be wrong, but this doesn’t look like it would be too expensive to build.

All are good! My favourites were the straw, the brush and the chopstick.

Do you plan to support people attempting to make the Fron2 at home? For instance, releasing a guide on building it, you could even charge small sums for it allowing more people to support you and get access to the fron2 than currently available. The fron2 sounds beautiful and I hope you find tons of people to buy them, amazing job!

Well come on we need a hour long version!

I could see something like this turned into an aeolian harp. Have a vertical windmill spin it around, have a soft spring hold the bow to the strings, and a vertical screw of some sort to bring the bow up and down the strings to change the sound.

its really cool and sounds great. the tuning is great. it would be cool if you could slide the inner round fret piece up and down

Falling in love with your device! I want one for the trippy sounds it makes!

Finally a RU-vid channel that inspires me.

I'm genuinely blown away by how good and different this sounds. I'll bet there are so many musical contexts this would work so well in!

From 3:30 to 3:50 you have to close your eyes and just listen... Then you'll see... Especially at 3:38 it's profoundly beautiful

beautiful, really reminds of botanica style sound design, except not done with vocoders and ffts but acoustically haha.

Now adapt this to a 10 foot spinning gong and really endanger the instrumentalist and audience but really hit those low notes!

You truly have created something beautiful

Animal collective type instrument

The commenter in the last vid who said it should be called a Hapry Garpy was spot on ❤

Wow, what a coincidence I am finding this video. A few months ago I was inventing in my mind a similar instrument. I discovered the hurdy-gurdy around this time and thought, wow this is similar to what I'm thinking about, now I see this instrument is also on your channel. This instrument you have made is just like what I was thinking about, I was considering making some foot propelled big rotating bowed piano haha. I was immediately shocked hearing the sound it is so beautiful full and harmonious such a new unique sound that reminds of no other instrument. and I am curious about this tambourine looking piece in the center? I assume for blocking interference? Does this create a wonky sound when played in a small room?

Another idea, you could make it like a vintage sewing machine. Using leg to make it rotate

This is a beautiful sound and a fantastic instrument! Thank you for making it and sharing this with us.

You'd really need a few differently tuned roto-harps in order to play a proper song... perhaps foot pedals, and a clutch plate, to switch between different scrolls being active.

Fantastic sound! What's the design purpose for the shorter pegs?

Have you thought of putting a motor with a pedal so you could control the speed with just your foot? Might lead to a more controlled sound and allow for multiple tools used at once.

It really just sounds like a good dream or an old french movie So impressed

Imagine the scores you could make for movies! You could convey so many emotions into scenes

Im not entirely sure how it works, but it'd be cool if u could change the position of the circle that separates the high notes from low notes so that you could get different pitches whenever you want, cause you're limited to only a few options currently

This is the closest thing I've ever heard to the sounds in the psychedelic universe

violin and broom parts had me back in Tristram !

Manual wind-chime. Sort of a musical instrument, but not. Not.

This is profoundly beautiful. More!!! More!!

Wow, this is incredibly cool and sounds so beautiful!!!

the phasing of the drum is wonderful.

Have you considered using a large rod made of glass or finely polished metal? Kinda like a slide for a guitar, I wonder if you'd get a similar effect.

Kind of reminds me of the sounds whales make to communicate with each other.

Evidently also a perpetual motion machine...