Ever since I played the game MNOG, I thought it was beautiful with the lore. The matoran were fullk of life and the one thing that made the matoran feel like they have talent was with music, specifically instruments.
All these instruments are confusing for me because there are some that are like flutes but what specific kind of flute or what instrument or material these are all made of as well as what each instrument is based on is where I am stuck at.
Can someone tell me what each of these instruments are, what material they are made of and what real-life instrument each are based on(Also for example, if you are going to give an answer, please explain the instrument in a similar fashion to the Kanoka from the last post I made asking for the significance of the Kanoka.
the various meanings and significance behind a flute is that you blow air into the flute to create a sound which can be altered by covering the holes with your fingers to produce different sounds
you could also just look at the BS01 topc for the musicians instead:
Six types of instruments have been known to have been played by Musicians. These include drums, a trumpet-like double-bored instrument, a bell tree-like percussion instrument, a triple-belled lower brass-type instrument, a wooden flute-like instrument, and a xylophone made from Madu shells. The flute and the drums also served as signals for the Le-Matoran.
The kind of chime is a specific type of chime known as a chime. It has no real-world duplicate that the developers copy-pasted, it’s just a chime with holes in it.
The horn is a horn. MNOG and BS01 give no further details; if you were to ask the developers, they would tell you it is a horn they came up with.
The flutist is playing a flute which is a flute. There are no real-world equivalents to the fictional design created for MNOG.
The Matoran is being held captive by the Nui-Rama. I don’t know at what point in the game the screenshot you grabbed is taken from, but it is a cropped image of a Nui-Rama holding a Matoran hostage. It is not an instrument.
This topic is kind of silly. They’re just a bunch of fictional instruments anyone could come up with. It’s like asking what real-life instrument Dr. Seuss based the Electro Who-Cardio Flooks on.
I just found out that it is a horn with multiple bells, turns out it was based on multi-belled brass
I believe this is based on a double flute but augmented to have one bell.
You mentioned drums right? Do you have a reference to that? Also regarding Xylophones made by Madu shells, were the xylophones based on this or the Kalimba?
I have to say that the research here from Mr. Au-Plau-Se is well done. Certainly, Ghid has been outdone. It makes me wonder if there is in fact a real world equivalent, or inspiration for Dr. Seuss’ Electro Who-Cardio Floox, which I’ll note that Ghid has the improper spelling for. That might be why he was unable to accurately decide whether or not it has a material counterpart
Truly, it makes one wonder why he asked in the first place if he was capable of doing it on his own
Equivalent? Inspiration?
But mr. Krelikan, those were never the questions. The question was what are they, not what are they comparable to/based off of. If that was the question, I may have answered that the flute made of two flutes is a flute made of two flutes, the horn with multiple bells is a horn with multiple bells, and the chimes with holes are chimes with holes.
Oh wait… I did say that, in essence. And then Au-Plau-Se said it again but with links. Oopsie.
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Biosector01.
But it seems like you’re more than capable of doing the research yourself
Unfortunately, you are simply not correct this time.
You can see here that Mr. Au-Plau-Se requested comments about the matoran instruments in regards to what real-life instrument each are based on. I do not think you are understanding his meaning here, so I’ll repeat it. If you could tell us what real life instrument these unknown Le-matoran instruments are based on, it would be appreciated. I hope that is a more clear version of Mr. Au-Plau-Se’s question, I don’t want to put words in his mouth
My multi-faceted answer has come to save my ineptitude yet again
More specifically, none of the horns listed in Au-Plau-Se’s link are the same type of horn as the MNOG one is, having no visible valves or slides, which means they may not be the real inspiration for such an instrument. As well, there are no real world counterparts as far as I am aware for the combined double flute in MNOG, so it’s impossible to say that any real-world flute in such a configuration actually exists.
Meaning it’s impossible for me or anyone else to answer definitively what the instruments were based on. My answer that they may have been based on nothing is just as plausible as Au-Plau-Se’s research finding semi-similar instruments from the real world.
Music(al instruments) in the eyes of the beholder, it seems. There is no real answer unless we get John Mata Nui Online Game himself to come to TTV and give us the inside scoop, and since I stole his identity and ran away with all the money he made off of MNOG to live in a tropical paradise don’t know where he is, that might be a while.
Ah, I can see that you plan out your replies very carefully.
Perhaps you did not need to use your time to try and answer it then? As the name of the topic implies, Mr. Au-Plau-Se is interested if anybody knows what those instruments are. More specifically, what real world instrument they are based on. If you surmise that nobody but this John fellow would know the answer, then I do not see why you responded only to explain how you don’t know? I do find your point your comment on music being in the eye of the beholder to be fascinating however. I have much to consider
Because maintaining the Master rank is a struggle Mr. Au-Plau-Se has a tendency to make topics on questions that the barest amount of research would answer, especially with sites like the handily available BioSector01 - which means me doing the barest amount of research to answer them is neither difficult nor time-consuming.
And it also gives me the opportunity to ask, with no answer yet given to me, why the barest amount of research was not done by him instead?
This topic has yielded his doing the research himself this time. I look forward to his expeditions into research in the future.
I was told by the man who ran a pickup truck into me and fractured my skull that I am quite the intellectual
Honestly, (and this is not meant as a slight to the author of this topic), I have to agree. Many of these topics are questions that are either ridiculously easy to answer if one puts the title into google, or are unanswerable because only Greg Farshtey could potentially provide an extra-canonical answer to topics not actually discussed in the story. The way these topics are presented in their initial posts make them sound like the average Reddit post, which I feel to be rather detrimental to the overall quality of responses. It’s easy to provide good responses to normal questions, but stuff like “is there a Bionicle version of X holiday” or “what inspired (insert random thing in Bionicle)” don’t make for good questions when no sources exist to adequately provide answers (or the question genuinely doesn’t make sense).
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