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Pictures and descriptions of odd musical instruments. Above is a picture of a man playing a double violin:

Part of an ongoing project that has lasted over 25 years, another one of Jon Rose’s “Relative Violins”, here we see a 10-string double violin, sharing the same fingerboard.

This is the development of a Total Artform based around the one instrument. Necessary to this concept has been innovation in the fields of new instrument design (over 20 deconstructed violin instruments including the legendary double piston and triple neck wheeling violin)

(via Monkeyfilter)