hydraulophone

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English

A hydraulophone being played.
A hydraulophone being played.
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Etymology

See hydraulic and -phone.

Noun

hydraulophone (plural hydraulophones)

  1. (music) Any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air.
    • 2007 May 17, "aleksios" (username), "Re: music with unconventional instruments", in rec.music.classical and alt.music, Usenet:
      Straying from classical music, there is Steve Mann's hydraulophone (which, even if not quite a match for a Silbermann organ, is great fun on a summer day):
    • 2008, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Solvi Ystad, Kristoffer Jensen, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Sense of Sounds:
      The creation of a novel instrument called the hydraulophone, whose sound production is created using water as a medium
    • 2009, David Gildiner, “The Hydaulophone: Music from water”, in Imagine: Early Childhood Music Therapy‎:
      At the core of the Hydraulophone is the idea to create a new tool that encourages children to discover their sense
    • 2009, Steve Mann, ACOUSTIC, HYPERACOUSTIC, OR ELECTRICALLY AMPLIFIED HYDRAULOPHONES OR MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES‎, US Patent :
      On professional hydraulophones for concert performance, the water jets are often arranged like the keys on a piano, and the instrument is played by pressing down on one or more of the water jets, one for each tone of a diatonic or chromatic scale.
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