An experimental musical instrument is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, combines features of different instrument families, or introduces a
Gage Averill playing an experimental hydraulophone pipe organ made from a piece of sewer drainage pipe and plumbing fittings in 2006
Luigi Russolo and his intonarumori
Partch's chromelodeon
Christian Wolff removes prepared objects from a piano.
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A hydraulophone is a tonal acoustic musical instrument played by direct physical contact with water where sound is generated or affected hydraulically. The hydraulophone was described and named by Ste
Experimental musical instrument
…as well as hybrid instruments combining several sound-producing principles. Some experimental instruments employ environmental forces. Experimental hydraulophones use flowing water as part of both the sound-producing mechanism and the playing interface. Site-specific instruments such as the Sea organ in Zadar are…
Ryan Janzen, playing a hydraulophone with Hart House Symphonic Band
A young musician plays the hydraulophone by pressing on jets of water laid out to a musical scale.
Waterflute (reedless) hydraulophone with 45 finger-embouchure holes, allowing an intricate but polyphonic embouchure-like control by inserting one finger into each of several of the instrument's 45 mouths at once
The pagophone uses ice, in contrast to the hydraulophone which typically uses liquid water