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percussive elements using the body of the instrument. When he began to feel limited by his instrument and a heavy schedule of playing and recording for other people, he started to devise a new instrument that would allow him the range to create his own music. At first he sought out professional help in building his instrument, but decided to make it himself because of the projected cost. The end result was the Magic Pipe, a 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) collection of steel plumbing pipes and joints, orchestral bass strings, and electronics.
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scene in the 1990s, performing live and as a studio musician. He started out in a funk, rockabilly, jazz band called "The
Fabulous Hedgehogs" before he developed his own style of solo playing and gained a reputation as a one-man rhythm section, incorporating traditional and slap-bass playing with
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the strings, as well as occasionally using a drum stick to sound the strings and the pipes at the same time. The creation of the Magic Pipe was based on
Silverman's double bass experience, as well as borrowing from the concepts of the
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album. He has a cult following in the United States of
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in 2008. He has received little mainstream recognition, but did garner attention after the use of his song "Buttmachine" (from his second album,
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