Large bow across Cleophone strings

Short sample of string-bass bow across the Cleophone strings recorded live at Heliotrope II Music Festival, June 2005 .

Keep in mind these samples are in mono and really lo-fi as they were recorded using the tiny microphone on a digital video camera and then compressed for web streaming audio. In other words, this is offered only as an idea of what the Cleophone sounds like. Primarily what is lost in this translation is wide stereo separation and loads of depth, bass and warmth.

Live on the Farfisa

Heliotrope I Music Festival June 2004

Piano Hammers on the Cleophone

Sample of using piano hammers against the strings and body of Cleophone, recorded lo-fi and live at Heliotrope II Music Festival, June 25

Small bow hitting not "bowing" the Cleophone

Sample of stick-like apparatus hitting Cleophone strings and body, lo-fi recording from Heliotrope II Music Festival, June 2005

Live on the Rhodes Electric Piano

Live recording from Acadia Cafe, Winter 2004 ... playing "When Your Lover is a Spider" on the Rhodes electric piano.

Cleophone show at Acadia, July 26

Next show is at Acadia Cafe, July 26th, 2005. Go on around 9:30pm. I am also trying to book studio time for one day at Sacred Heart Studios to get a solid recording of the Cleophone.

Minnesota Public Radio Feature

MPR ran a feature on the Cleophone in June, 2005. Listen to full story here, or visit http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/14_robertsc_cleophone/