Julian Koster

Julian has been seen playing a Vox Phantom in the early days of Neutral Milk Hotel

Julian uses a red fender p-bass usually with fuzz effects on it, and usually plays fingerstyle. The bass has a sticker of a snowflake and a reindeer on it.

Julian plays this red fingerstlye precision bass, ususally with fuzz effects. The bass has a sticker of a snowflake and a reindeer on it.

At around 6:19 in this video, you can clearly see Julian playing some Ibanez bass, probably a Roadstar series with a bow during Holland, 1945

He also plays this toy piano.

He uses the Magnus Chord Organ on a lot of his songs.

Jeff Mangum – vocals, guitar, organ, floor tom, bowed fuzz bass, tapes, shortwave radio, art direction Jeremy Barnes – drums, organ Julian Koster – Wandering Genie, the singing saw, bowed banjo, accordion, white noise Scott Spillane – trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, euphonium, horn arrangements Robert Schneider – home organ, air organ, fuzz bass, harmony vocals, one-note piano, horn arrangements Laura Carter – zanzithophone Rick Benjamin – trombone Marisa Bissinger – saxophone, flugelhorn James Guyatt – percussion Michelle Anderson – Uilleann pipes Chris Bilheimer – art direction Brian Dewan – illustrations

He uses it it a lot of neutral milk hotel music

One of the banjos he uses.

His current banjo.

recorded with:1930's RCA mic

"I play a Mussehl & Westphal tenor saw... and have found it to be the best sounding saw that offers a full range (2½ octaves or so). I also have some sweet sounding old carpentry saws that all have great distinctive voices, though a more limited range."

Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes Recorded with: 1930’s Webster Chicago wire recorder, 1930’s RCA ribbon microphone, record lathe, 1960’s Ampex 4-track (thank you Otho and Peter), 1950’s Ampex 351 whole track recorder, Fostex 1/4-inch 8-track, the eternal Shure 58 microphone, a one-week loan of a Fairchild 670 limiter (a final act of kindness to us from Jack Steeb), Hi-8 video camera, handheld cassette recorder, and computer