Hydraulophone
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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
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
Fipple
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The term fipple specifies a variety of end-blown flute that includes the flageolet, recorder, and tin whistle. The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments places this group under t
Hydraulophone
…numbers of holes for different notes. Some hydraulophones have reeds (one or more reeds for each finger hole) and some are reedless, having one or more fipple mechanisms associated with each finger hole, thus having no moving parts to wear out. Blocking flow through a finger hole directs the water instead to…
Mouthpiece of a Catalan recorder
A pipe and tabor player and a double pipe player accompany a gymnast in this Medieval illustration.