{"id":1189,"date":"2007-11-20T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/11\/20\/jonathan-coulton-and-the-zendrum\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T17:14:12","slug":"jonathan-coulton-and-the-zendrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Coulton and the Zendrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Jonathan Coulton perform, at one point he pulled out this weird triangular MIDI controller called a Zendrum. It reminded me of the Synthaxe Drumitar that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Future_Man\">Future Man<\/a> used to use when playing with B\u00c3\u00a9la Fleck and the Flecktones, and indeed, looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zendrum.com\/\">web page for the company<\/a>, I found out that the Zendrum creator was inspired by Future Man&#8217;s creation. The Zendrum&#8217;s got little drum pads across it that you trigger with your finger, and is totally the kind of drum kit that I, an avowed keyboardist with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keytar\">strap envy<\/a>, would play.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the song that Jonathan Coulton played with it&#8230;well, you need to see it. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, now you can!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c-h4-rlD_sY&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c-h4-rlD_sY&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Jonathan Coulton perform, at one point he pulled out this weird triangular MIDI controller called a Zendrum. It reminded me of the Synthaxe Drumitar that Future Man used to use when playing with B\u00c3\u00a9la Fleck and the Flecktones, and indeed, looking at the web page for the company, I found out that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jonathan Coulton and the Zendrum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}