18 Weirdest Instruments of All Time
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Henry Dagg holds the professional title of Sound Sculptor and with inventions like the instrument known as the Sharpsichord, its easy to see why.\r
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7 - Branching Corrugahorn\r
Invented by Bart Hopkin, comes this experiment musical instrument. This strange beast of music is comprised of several flexible corrugated pipes or different lengths and a mouthpiece. The performer then blows into the mouthpiece, while keeping the tubes closed with their fingers, once a finger is released and a tube opened, a strange sound will emit from that tube. This instrument creates some of the strangest of sounds ever and is rarely used except in the experimental music scene. \r
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6 - Zeusaphone\r
This super strange instrument, which gathers its namesake from the Greek king of the Gods who was known to throw lighting bolts, Zeus and the Norse God of Thunder, Thor, is downright electrifying. This bizarre form of musical stylings is made from Tesla coil, modified to produce musical notes by controlling its spark output. The frequency of the resulting musical wave is beyond the limit of human ear perception, however, the wave has been digitally modulated in order to be perceived in the state of an audible wave. \r
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5 - Hornucopian Dronepipe\r
This peculiar instrument is made from 3D printing, and was designed by MONAD studio, specially Eric Goldemberg, Veronica Zalcberg and Scott F. Hall. Some have called this strange instrument dystopian in appearance and sound. This strange pipe-like horn fits together with a two-string piezoelectric violin, a one-string electric bass guitar, a one-string piezoelectric monovioloncella and a small didgeridoo. Once all of these musical components are strung together, the music inspired art installation is complete. The sound is said to be chaotic, yet otherworldly.\r
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4 - Picasso Guitar \r
This unique instrument is a guitar, which is named for its similarity in appearance to the cubist works of that mad artist, known as Pablo Picasso. This strange string instrument is ually a modified harp guitar, with a wedge-shaped body, four necks, two sound holes and 42 strings. This elaborately designed combination of a standard guitar and harp guitar, was originally designed for the jazz musician named Pat Metheny, who has incorporated its sound into his various musical works.\r
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3 - Sharpsichord\r
Henry Dagg holds the professional title of Sound Sculptor and with inventions like the instrument known as the Sharpsichord, its easy to see why. This crazy complex instrument consists of a humongous pin-barrel harp, which contains 11 cylinders, with rotating pins which strike internal strings. Each of the 11,520 holes is threaded to accept one of the 3-millimeter threaded pins. A scale across the top shows the pin position for every note in the 46-note chromatic scale. Another scale on the side controls the calibration of the 240 horizontal lines of holes. A musician sets the pins, and as the cylinder rotates, each pin lifts a level and plucks the appropriate correlating string. Each pair of strings vibrates to allow the horns to tremble, depending on which combination depends on what horn blows. Oh, and did I mention the entire crazy contraption runs on solar power! \r
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2 - Theremin\r
Named for its Russian creator, Leon Theremin, this daddy of weird instruments is hailed by many as one of the very first times electronics were used to create music, youre welcome techo. This strange instrument is played without any physical cont. This bizarre instrument consists of two metal antennas which can sense the performers hands through two oscillators connected to them. As the performer moves their hands within the range of the antennas, the distance between one hand and the correlating antenna determines the pitch, the distance of the other hand determines the volume. This instrument is renown for its eery sounds which have been background effects in science fiction and horror s for decades. Some of these classic outsider films which feature this creepy, haunting music are Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still. \r
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1 - Holophonor\r
Inspired by an instrument in the futuristic cartoon world of the Matt Groeningcalled Futurama, comes this musical instrument which doubles as a hologram projector. Harrison Krix was able to bring this fictitious musical instrument into our reality by converting an old clarinet. Krix took a clarinet he found at a thrift shop and added 54 LED lights which are ivated through a programmable microcontroller, embedded into the bell of the instrument, which tell the lights what to do.
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7 - Branching Corrugahorn\r
Invented by Bart Hopkin, comes this experiment musical instrument. This strange beast of music is comprised of several flexible corrugated pipes or different lengths and a mouthpiece. The performer then blows into the mouthpiece, while keeping the tubes closed with their fingers, once a finger is released and a tube opened, a strange sound will emit from that tube. This instrument creates some of the strangest of sounds ever and is rarely used except in the experimental music scene. \r
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6 - Zeusaphone\r
This super strange instrument, which gathers its namesake from the Greek king of the Gods who was known to throw lighting bolts, Zeus and the Norse God of Thunder, Thor, is downright electrifying. This bizarre form of musical stylings is made from Tesla coil, modified to produce musical notes by controlling its spark output. The frequency of the resulting musical wave is beyond the limit of human ear perception, however, the wave has been digitally modulated in order to be perceived in the state of an audible wave. \r
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5 - Hornucopian Dronepipe\r
This peculiar instrument is made from 3D printing, and was designed by MONAD studio, specially Eric Goldemberg, Veronica Zalcberg and Scott F. Hall. Some have called this strange instrument dystopian in appearance and sound. This strange pipe-like horn fits together with a two-string piezoelectric violin, a one-string electric bass guitar, a one-string piezoelectric monovioloncella and a small didgeridoo. Once all of these musical components are strung together, the music inspired art installation is complete. The sound is said to be chaotic, yet otherworldly.\r
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4 - Picasso Guitar \r
This unique instrument is a guitar, which is named for its similarity in appearance to the cubist works of that mad artist, known as Pablo Picasso. This strange string instrument is ually a modified harp guitar, with a wedge-shaped body, four necks, two sound holes and 42 strings. This elaborately designed combination of a standard guitar and harp guitar, was originally designed for the jazz musician named Pat Metheny, who has incorporated its sound into his various musical works.\r
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3 - Sharpsichord\r
Henry Dagg holds the professional title of Sound Sculptor and with inventions like the instrument known as the Sharpsichord, its easy to see why. This crazy complex instrument consists of a humongous pin-barrel harp, which contains 11 cylinders, with rotating pins which strike internal strings. Each of the 11,520 holes is threaded to accept one of the 3-millimeter threaded pins. A scale across the top shows the pin position for every note in the 46-note chromatic scale. Another scale on the side controls the calibration of the 240 horizontal lines of holes. A musician sets the pins, and as the cylinder rotates, each pin lifts a level and plucks the appropriate correlating string. Each pair of strings vibrates to allow the horns to tremble, depending on which combination depends on what horn blows. Oh, and did I mention the entire crazy contraption runs on solar power! \r
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2 - Theremin\r
Named for its Russian creator, Leon Theremin, this daddy of weird instruments is hailed by many as one of the very first times electronics were used to create music, youre welcome techo. This strange instrument is played without any physical cont. This bizarre instrument consists of two metal antennas which can sense the performers hands through two oscillators connected to them. As the performer moves their hands within the range of the antennas, the distance between one hand and the correlating antenna determines the pitch, the distance of the other hand determines the volume. This instrument is renown for its eery sounds which have been background effects in science fiction and horror s for decades. Some of these classic outsider films which feature this creepy, haunting music are Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still. \r
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1 - Holophonor\r
Inspired by an instrument in the futuristic cartoon world of the Matt Groeningcalled Futurama, comes this musical instrument which doubles as a hologram projector. Harrison Krix was able to bring this fictitious musical instrument into our reality by converting an old clarinet. Krix took a clarinet he found at a thrift shop and added 54 LED lights which are ivated through a programmable microcontroller, embedded into the bell of the instrument, which tell the lights what to do.