Cellofourte, which now plays mostly original music written by its members, is in fact trying to distance itself from other all-cello bands . . . by stressing its adherence to the natural sound of the instruments.

"The thing about other four-cello groups [is that] they immediately go to the effects pedals and distortion," said Mr. Olsen. "We avoid that because we have worked many years to get a good sound out of a cello and why throw that away? And if you are good, you can get all the cello tendencies with the bow. Why resort to processing?"

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Cellofourte website (and I would be remiss, in a post like this, by not linking to Rachel Barton-Pine. If you don't already own Storming the Citadel, come to my place, and we can have a listening party!)