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Rob Scallon lets the breeze do the guitar picking

An outdoor experiment with TheWindNomad turns acoustic strings into a ringing drone, and an August upload is drawing fresh attention.

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Using Wind to Play Guitar Sounds Unreal

No pick required. Beside the water, with Chicago's skyline behind him, Rob Scallon holds an acoustic guitar into the breeze and listens as the strings begin to sing.

His August upload, "Using Wind to Play Guitar Sounds Unreal," has picked up roughly 23,000 views in a day, nearly seven times its usual daily pace. The clip credits TheWindNomad, whose demonstration gives Scallon a different way to approach an instrument he knows well: turn the body into a scoop for moving air.

The angle matters. His guest explains that the guitar body works rather like a wing, directing wind across the strings. The unwound strings ring out, while the wound bass strings do not in this demonstration. Scallon then tries fretting a C chord to hear what happens when he changes the notes. Instead of a strummed rhythm, the pair get a sustained, hovering sound.

The comments supply the inevitable air-guitar joke, but also some more specific listening notes. Viewers compare the drone to the ambient soundtrack of Disco Elysium, suggest a wing-shaped guitar and point to the older idea of an aeolian harp, an instrument played by wind.

Scallon's catalog already stretches from banjo metal covers to spinning guitar necks. Here, the unusual part isn't a custom mechanism or an unfamiliar instrument. It's finding another way to make an ordinary acoustic guitar speak.

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What viewers say

Finally, a true air guitar
@sandollorSee it on YouTube
Immediately reminds me of the kind of ambient sounds used in the Disco Elysium OST
@casualpequod6054See it on YouTube
Time for an engineer to design a wing shaped guitar to channel the wind more efficiently over the strings🎉
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I love Rob introducing the idea of moving the guitar body to add more vibrato
@DichotiousSee it on YouTube
Basically using your guitar as an aeolian harp!
@sixtieraloneSee it on YouTube
This is the human experience. Discovery, art, connection. I dig it.
@ryudelafuego3051See it on YouTube
The joy of sharing and the joy of learning captured in their faces the whole time!!
@merickfulSee it on YouTube
That's a REALLY cool sound! Sounds "Spacey" 🌌
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