hydraulophone
Sign in to saveA hydraulophone is a tonal acoustic musical instrument played by direct physical contact with water (sometimes other fluids) where sound is generated or affected hydraulically. The hydraulophone was described and named by Steve Mann in 2005, and patented in 2011. Typically, sound is produced by the same hydraulic fluid in contact with the player's fingers. It has been used as a sensory exploration device for low-vision individuals.
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- Types and basic operation
- Embouchure
- Relationships to other instruments
- Woodwind
- Pipe organ
- Piano
- Instruments that use other states of water
- 12-jet diatonic
- Markings
- 45-jet chromatic / concert
- Themed
- Cold weather
- Percussion hydraulophone
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A hydraulophone is a tonal acoustic musical instrument played by direct physical contact with water (sometimes other fluids) where sound is generated or affected hydraulically. The hydraulophone was described and named by Steve Mann in 2005, and patented in 2011. Typically, sound is produced by the same hydraulic fluid in contact with the player's fingers. It has been used as a sensory exploration device for low-vision individuals.
==Types and basic operation== thumb|left|song is "Huron Carol"; "[[Une Jeune Pucelle"]] thumb|A young musician plays the hydraulophone by pressing on jets of water laid out to a musical scale. thumb|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