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23
Feb
Xylophone for the Ice Ages and the H20rchestra
One of the things that greatly excites me about musical instruments is the possibility of creating them from unexpected and ordinary materials. In this case, water. The Pagophone uses bars of ice as it’s primary source of vibration. They pagophone…
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23
Feb
The Daxophone and It’s Singing Alphabet of Forked Tongues
Rarely does an instrument’s form match up with it’s sound as perfectly and whimsically as the daxophone’s. Invented by Hans Reichel of Germany, the daxophone is a friction idiophone who’s vibrating mechanism is an oddly but tactically shaped wooden tongue…
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