The Brooklyn-based band Scary Mansion are possibly the world's only thunderstick/bass/drum rock trio. The thunderstick is the thin-necked three-string guitar like instrument barely visible in the hands of singer and songwriter Leah Hayes in the photograph above, taken at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch. In shape it reminded me of the Chinese erhu that we saw yesterday. Acoustically it is apparently similar to a banjo. Plugged in it sounded more like a...well, like a guitar. Scary Mansion were preceded by a percussion-heavy duo called Hyrst. I like the link with yesterday's music. The central percussive sound of Hyrst mirroring the Lion Dance percussionists and the resemblance of Leah's delicate thunderstick to the elegant erhu.
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