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Piece Description
Frank Pahl grew up in a Wyandotte, MI. A town outside of Detroit, where most people work in a factory, making cars or something having to do with them. But Pahl defied his family's expectations of him, and has for the past 20-years tinkered with toys and tools for the sheer enjoyment of the process, rather than a pre-determined end result, and he's been able to etch a living out of his sound experiments. He's specifiaclly interested in the sound of youth and childhood, and has been collecting toy instrments for years and years.
Broadcast History
WDET, Detroit Public Radio. June, 2008
Transcript
The first thing you see as you walk into Frank Pahl's first floor work space is a dismantled piano. If you're not careful you'll walk right into it...it's so close to the door. On top of the piano are a bunch of odd-looking metal bells. Beyond that are a half-dozen old euphoniums hanging on the wall. Then there's this thing sticking out of from under a messy table.
This a ga-cella. And it's a guitar neck on a cello body...and it sounds like this.
(up ga-cella!)
The ga-cella is only the beginning.
This is called a little tike, these are chimes, this is a mongo, these are choral music boxes...
My name is Frank Pahl and I live in Wyandotte and Ann Arbor. I make my living writing music for theatre, film, and dance, and playing with several bands. Currently it's with scavenger quartet and little bang theory which is a band that plays music on toys.
The Little Bang Theory whistl...
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