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Other experimental instruments are created from electronic spare parts, or by mixing acoustic instruments with electric components. The instruments created by the earliest 20th-century builders of experimental musical instruments, such as Luigi Russolo (1885–1947), Harry Partch (1901–1974), and John Cage (1912–1992), were not well ...
Console of the organ, an electrically actuated lithophone. The Great Stalacpipe Organ is an electrically actuated lithophone located in Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA.Covering 3.5 acres of the cavern, it is considered the world's largest instrument by Guinness World Records.
An Ikoro is a musical instrument created and used by the Igbo of Nigeria. It is a slit drum that is beaten with a stick or sticks and can be used in some parts of Igbo land for communicating, similar to a talking drum. [1] Ikoro cannot be played by anyone. It is so special that any time its sound is heard people will gather at the village square.
Playing a harpejji. The harpejji (/ h ɑːr ˈ p ɛ dʒ iː / har-PEJ-ee) [1] is an electric stringed musical instrument developed in 2007 by American audio engineer Tim Meeks. [2] [3] It can be described as a cross between a piano and a guitar, [1] [4] or as a cross between an accordion and a pedal steel guitar. [5]
The halldorophone (/ ˈ h æ l d ɔːr ɔː f oʊ n /; also known as the dorophone, and dórófónn in Icelandic) is a cello-like electronic instrument created by artist and designer Halldór Úlfarsson. [2] The halldorophone is designed specifically to feedback the strings, [3] [4] [5] making use of the phenomena of positive feedback to incite ...
The Yaybahar was inspired by several different instruments, including the Turkish ney, African thunder drum and Australian didgeridoo. It represents both Western and Eastern influences in its design and sound. [2] In developing it, Sen invented a new system of bridges between the strings and the resonance body. [3]
An updated model called the New CX-3 was released in 2000, and uses sample-based technology, as opposed to the original's analog emulation. Both incarnations of the instrument feature a double-manual version called the BX-3. The first-generation models also included an output for the instrument to hook up to a real Leslie speaker.
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)