It's mostly the type of guitar (nylon strings) and the fingerpicking style.

Yeeaah... Enough with the string instruments.

Orchestral version:
Adagio For Strings - Samuel Barber - directed by Leonard Bernstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNhFMZP4NM

On one hand... ugh... the cranberries.

on the other hand, that was some pretty *skillful bass playing. Also, I am distracted by those sweet coloured strings!

Consistent persistence pays off :-)

It's amazing how you can go from barely being able to pick the strings while looking at them to playing any note blindfolded in a relatively short time.

Great progress for just 1 year.

I wonder if Muppet cum is as flammable as silly string too?

It does appear to be more of a hilarious novelty than a serious instrument. There's clearly no way to fret on the lower (upper?) half of the strings without having your left hand in a completely bizarre position, or placing it in your lap.

Also, why the hell is one of the strings pitched higher than the string below it? At 47 - 49 seconds you can hear it, and it's labeled as a C# between F# and G#. I'm not imagining that, am I?

so it's a regular electric guitar with a bunch of extra strings that are hardly ever touched?
I'm not an expert but I couldn't hear anything that couldn't be replicated with 1 or 2 effects pedals...

Why is the instrument used in the mouth?

It looks to me like you vary the pitch by changing the tension on the string.

Cool song though

Excitement for my plans to make myself a 9 string bass with the highest string betting guitar, using one single curved back neck in the creation of a dual fretted/single 9 string/highest guitar string etc. Opposing faced, designed to accommodate the most coil pickups/hummbuckers I can fit/ make fit. Farraday caging the parts with inconel 600 non magnetic foil (aviation grade). Use non solder crimping connections, platinum cable/wire & connectors with graduating switches/transition low to highest setting etc. Built in anti surge devices, connection.

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I'd be down with a Space 1999 reboot, but the fundamental premise of a nuclear explosion pushing the moon out of orbit and then somehow to another star system for a new episode each week is so ridiculous l it would have to be replaced, but by that point it's hardly a Space 1999 reboot. I guess you could have the same basic setup with a moon base but use wormholes or string magic or quantum whatever and that might be okay. A show taking place on a moon base that keeps jumping randomly through alternate dimensions could be kind of interesting for a while maybe. Like Sliders, except they take the moon base with them and have Eagles to fly around in.