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Here's the outtake (it's long by the way... so don't say I didn't warn you...)

My questions:

-What's that mildly annoying (to me) percussive sound at the beginning, and again from roughly 12:00 to 13:00?

-What's the instrument that starts on 6:40?

-What's the instrument at 11:04? Is that a Mellotron, a flute, or a guitar?

-The instrument at 11:09?

-What is Keith/Brian doing to his guitar at 14:18? How's he getting all that fuzz?

Thank you.

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No answers, tho I look forward to the replies.

Weirdly enough, I listened to this same recording twice just 5 days ago. Love it.

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His Majesty would have known...he was a Brian encyclopedia. I took a few minutes before and listened to various Morrocan stringed instruments that Brian might have played, but none of them sounds like that very cool instrument at 6:40, which is just so cool.

I think 11:04 is a mellotron. I thought at first 11:09 was a thumb piano, but it's a stringed instrument.

Sorry not be helpful -- I think it's a great question -- you might have to wander over to a Brian fan board.

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His Majesty would have known...he was a Brian encyclopedia. I took a few minutes before and listened to various Morrocan stringed instruments that Brian might have played, but none of them sounds like that very cool instrument at 6:40, which is just so cool.

I think 11:04 is a mellotron. I thought at first 11:09 was a thumb piano, but it's a stringed instrument.

Sorry not be helpful -- I think it's a great question -- you might have to wander over to a Brian fan board.

Thanks anyway, swiss. You're the only person to reply to this post.

And could you recommend a Brian fan board?

Thanks.

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swiss
His Majesty would have known...he was a Brian encyclopedia. I took a few minutes before and listened to various Morrocan stringed instruments that Brian might have played, but none of them sounds like that very cool instrument at 6:40, which is just so cool.

I think 11:04 is a mellotron. I thought at first 11:09 was a thumb piano, but it's a stringed instrument.

Sorry not be helpful -- I think it's a great question -- you might have to wander over to a Brian fan board.

Thanks anyway, swiss. You're the only person to reply to this post.

And could you recommend a Brian fan board?

Thanks.

at 11:09 I think it's a guitar, just through a different amp or a different setting. The bell percussion at 12:00 could be a Dobani.

Dobani

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It could be a guiro (I had to look that up!).

Whatever it is, there's a lot of echo on it.
Maybe someone scraping something across a tabla?

It's definitely not sampled...

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It could be a guiro (I had to look that up!).

Whatever it is, there's a lot of echo on it.
Maybe someone scraping something across a tabla?

It's definitely not sampled...

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At 6:40 it's definitely a violin, just not played the "normal way" - remember the falling coins on piano strings at the start of 2000 Light Years From Home?

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swiss
His Majesty would have known...he was a Brian encyclopedia. I took a few minutes before and listened to various Morrocan stringed instruments that Brian might have played, but none of them sounds like that very cool instrument at 6:40, which is just so cool.

I think 11:04 is a mellotron. I thought at first 11:09 was a thumb piano, but it's a stringed instrument.

Sorry not be helpful -- I think it's a great question -- you might have to wander over to a Brian fan board.

Thanks anyway, swiss. You're the only person to reply to this post.

And could you recommend a Brian fan board?

Thanks.

at 11:09 I think it's a guitar, just through a different amp or a different setting. The bell percussion at 12:00 could be a Dobani.

Dobani

Thank you andrewt... but I guess I didn't make it clear that I meant the scraping sound at the very beginning (that I at least thought recurred later) that seems mixed in front of everything. Might that be guiro? But again, thank you.

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The instrument at 6.40 seems to be a mellotron on mandolin setting.

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-The 11:09 instrument... I guess is a guitar. Although it sounds like no guitar I'd heard earlier in the song, or anywhere else in my entire life. Any of the more experienced guitarists have an idea of equipment and settings?

Phrasing sure sounds like a guitar, I'm going to guess electric guitar through small speaker with EQ, possibly using a distant mic with a close mic.


The 14:28 guitar effects were also left untouched... could these experienced guitarists help with determining equipment on that one also?

Just sounds like a fairly distant mic'ed electric guitar to me. Pretty clean, don't hear much effects there

Knowing these guys were tripping the whole time I'm guessing some strange mic and amps placements contributed to the strange sounds. Like setting the amp on the piano or placing the mic inside the back of the amps, etc. Also plugging electric guitars into other devices like portable tape recorder inputs or keyboard aux inputs.

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By the way, I'd never really heard this version before and it's way better in this form than what ended up on the album.

If '67 wasn't so messed up for the Stones, they could have worked this into a true epic.