Now that I actually looked it up, it seems to be called a harmonium.

I have no clue :c
The song which singed about the instrument was played with a guitar derp. I know my mom played that thing when she was a kid. I'm guessing something between an organ and piano tho, maybe a bit softer. I don't think they make these instruments anymore.

A harmonium is actually an Indian reed organ, The player pumps air through it using the pedals and his feet, and that air is directed over vibrating reeds. It sounds a bit like an accordion that doesn't make you want to murder the player. :D They're still being made, as far as I know.

Beautiful picture as well. So many bricks!

thats wicked cool x3

I remember watching you drawing this, it looks wicked cool.

O_o

Dang! So what's the story on this one? A prisoner forced to entertain his new master? An artist who is literally a slave to his passions? I'd kinda like to know now.

the later I believe.

Wow, amazing and exactly how long did i take to draw all the bricks? :P

I know it took me almost a month to finish the entire picture, but I think I did like 5-10 bricks a day, it didn't take that long, maybe 30seconds per brick when I got into it, but it was just sooooooo boring that I couldn't be arsed to work on the for long sessions. XD

Well i would say time well spent :3

wow, some serious brickwork there o.o

awesome

looks like the reed organ we had at the carnegie (old library converted to historical society museum) when i docented there in the 90s. the foot pedals worked a bellows that pumped air through the metal reeds. the pull knobs were for a small selection of stops. i played odd stuff on it for my own amusement when i wasn't doing something else. i guess its still there. haven't been over there myself for a while. when my friend dean curated there, he used to let/have all the kids who came in take a turn playing on it.

they're really almost the same thing as those toy little plastic chord organs with an electric squirrel cage fan that blows air through the reeds. except this is from before there were plastics and before most people had access to electrical power. so instead of a motor you had to pump the bellows with your feet to get a sound out of it.

looks almost exactly like the one we had (and is probably still) there.

It kind of reminds me of Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

This one kind of creeped me out, I just finished watching the shinning and now looking at this pic I hear the click clack of a type writer when I see our musician hunched over his instument. But then I noticed the chains when I turned up the brightness on my computer and it was a total mindfuck. Please Neko give us a doorway in to your nearly insane mind, and tell us... WTF is going on!?!

Haha, it's based on a song which sais he's in chains playing the instrument forever in his basement because he's simply just so obsessed :D

Sounds like a scene out of some indie horror movie.

Harpsichord?