Ever heard a Tool or Nirvana song played on a dulcimer?
Inventive musicians are always coming up with ways to perform creative cover versions of their favorite songs; Anthony Bones Reid is no exception. The Pennsylvania-based performer, who records under the moniker Horns of Pan, has plied YouTube with some well-known rock and metal songs performed on the yangqin, a Chinese hammered dulcimer. Unsurprisingly, they sound exquisitely exotic.
Watch a handful of them down toward the bottom of this post.
Reid s anything if not prolific. In the last couple of years, the musician has filmed himself playing yangqin covers of Tool s Lateralus, Nirvana s Heart-Shaped Box, Opeth s Patterns in the Ivy, the Cure s Close to Me and Porcupine Tree s Lazarus, in addition to several others.