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Friction Idiophones
Friction idiophones is designation 13 in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. These idiophones produce sound by being rubbed either against each other or by means of a non-sounding object. Instruments of this type are not very common; possibly the best known examples are the musical saw and the nail violin. According to Sachs,Sachs, Curt (1940). ''The History of Musical Instruments'', p.456-7. W. W. Nortan & Company, Inc. Friction sticks (131) 131.1 Individual friction sticks. 131.2 Sets of friction sticks. * Nail violin * Cristal baschet, preceded by the euphon 131.21 Without direct friction. 131.22 With direct friction. Friction plaques (132) 132.1 Individual friction plaques. * Daxophone * Musical saw * Triolin *Turntable 132.2 Sets of friction plaques. * Clavicylinder Friction vessels (133) 133.1 Individual friction vessels. * Rainstick *Singing Bowl * Ekola 133.2 Sets of friction vessels. * Glass harmonica * Glass harp * Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nail Violin
} The nail violin is a musical instrument which was invented by German violinist Johann Wilde in 1740. The instrument consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, approximately by in size, with iron or brass nails of different lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when bowed. History Wilde was inspired to create the instrument when he accidentally drew his bow across a metal peg, which produced a musical sound. The instrument consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, approximately by in size, with iron or brass nails of different lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when bowed; the deeper the nails are driven in, the shorter the nail and the higher the pitch. The bow used was fitted with coarse black horsehair, which produced sound by friction. An improved instrument, now in the collection of the Hochschule in Berlin, has two half-moon sound-chests of different sizes, one on the top of the other, forming terraces. In the rounded wall of the upper soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nail Violin
} The nail violin is a musical instrument which was invented by German violinist Johann Wilde in 1740. The instrument consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, approximately by in size, with iron or brass nails of different lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when bowed. History Wilde was inspired to create the instrument when he accidentally drew his bow across a metal peg, which produced a musical sound. The instrument consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, approximately by in size, with iron or brass nails of different lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when bowed; the deeper the nails are driven in, the shorter the nail and the higher the pitch. The bow used was fitted with coarse black horsehair, which produced sound by friction. An improved instrument, now in the collection of the Hochschule in Berlin, has two half-moon sound-chests of different sizes, one on the top of the other, forming terraces. In the rounded wall of the upper soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terpodion2
The terpodion or uranion is a keyboard instrument which produces sound using the same friction principle as the glass harmonica. Instead of rotating glass bells a wooden cylinder is rotating. This cylinder is coated with a special mixture. Only 25 instruments were ever built by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, the son of Johann David Buschmann, the inventor of this instrument. Johann David Buschmann was first a passementier, then he started repairing key instruments. By 1817 the instrument spanned a range of 5 1/2 octaves. * In 1821, one such instrument arrived in London. * Also in 1821, David Buschmann sold a licence for building terpodions to the instrument builder David Loescham and the cheesemonger James Allwright. Following this, only one instrument was ever built in England. * In 1841, another report could be read in the London newspaper. Examples of these instruments can be seen in museums all over Europe, including museums in Copenhagen, Leipzig, Vienna, London, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clavicylinder
Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (, , ; 30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled as the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. He also undertook pioneering work in the study of meteorites and is regarded by some as the father of meteoritics. Early life Although Chladni was born in Wittenberg in Saxony, his family originated from Kremnica, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary and today a mining town in central Slovakia. Chladni has therefore been identified as German, Hungarian and Slovak. Chladni came from an educated family of academics and learned men. Chladni's great-grandfather, the Lutheran clergyman Georg Chladni (1637–1692), had left Kremnica in 1673 during the Counter Reformation. Chladni's grandfather, Martin Chladni (1669–1725), was also a Lutheran theologian and, in 1710, became p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friction Idiophones
Friction idiophones is designation 13 in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. These idiophones produce sound by being rubbed either against each other or by means of a non-sounding object. Instruments of this type are not very common; possibly the best known examples are the musical saw and the nail violin. According to Sachs,Sachs, Curt (1940). ''The History of Musical Instruments'', p.456-7. W. W. Nortan & Company, Inc. Friction sticks (131) 131.1 Individual friction sticks. 131.2 Sets of friction sticks. * Nail violin * Cristal baschet, preceded by the euphon 131.21 Without direct friction. 131.22 With direct friction. Friction plaques (132) 132.1 Individual friction plaques. * Daxophone * Musical saw * Triolin *Turntable 132.2 Sets of friction plaques. * Clavicylinder Friction vessels (133) 133.1 Individual friction vessels. * Rainstick *Singing Bowl * Ekola 133.2 Sets of friction vessels. * Glass harmonica * Glass harp * Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wind Machine
The wind machine (also called an aeoliphone or aelophon) is a friction idiophone used to produce the sound of wind for orchestral compositions and musical theater productions. Construction The wind machine is constructed of a large cylinder made up of several wooden slats which measures approximately in diameter. The cylinder body of the instrument rests upon a stand and is typically covered with silk, canvas, or other material which is in a fixed position. A crank handle, used by the player to rotate the cylinder and create the sound, is attached to the cylinder. Another method of construction implements an electric fan, which is fitted with lengths of cane, rather than blades. However, this method is less popular because it does not provide the player with the ability to control the speed of rotation. Technique The wind machine is played by rotating the crank handle, which is attached to the cylinder, to create friction between the wooden slats and the material cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verrophone
A verrophone ("glass-euphonium") is a musical instrument, invented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, which, "uses tuned glass tubes,"Rossing, Thomas D. (2000). ''Science of Percussion Instruments'', p.187-8. World Scientific. . open at one end and arranged in various sizes (usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ). The sound is made by rubbing one end of one or more of the glass tubes, or also by striking them or rubbing them with a special mallet. The tubes are close together so that chords can be played by rubbing more than one at the same time. The instrument carries more acoustical volume than the glass harmonica and some other glass instruments and generally has a range from G3 to F6 (which can be extended in the higher register with wine glasses, giving it a range up to D7). Every piece composed originally for glass harmonica can be played on the verrophone. Predecessors The term ''verrophone'' originally referred to a glass har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terpodion
The terpodion or uranion is a keyboard instrument which produces sound using the same friction principle as the glass harmonica. Instead of rotating glass bells a wooden cylinder is rotating. This cylinder is coated with a special mixture. Only 25 instruments were ever built by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, the son of Johann David Buschmann, the inventor of this instrument. Johann David Buschmann was first a passementier, then he started repairing key instruments. By 1817 the instrument spanned a range of 5 1/2 octaves. * In 1821, one such instrument arrived in London. * Also in 1821, David Buschmann sold a licence for building terpodions to the instrument builder David Loescham and the cheesemonger James Allwright. Following this, only one instrument was ever built in England. * In 1841, another report could be read in the London newspaper. Examples of these instruments can be seen in museums all over Europe, including museums in Copenhagen, Leipzig, Vienna, London, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass Harp
A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrillon or ghost fiddle) is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses. It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch, either by grinding each goblet to the specified pitch, in which case the tuning is invariable, or by filling the glass with water until the desired pitch is achieved. Adding water causes the pitch do go down. Each glass model may have its pitch lowered by a fourth or even largeinterval In addition, the sounds of a musical glass may be generated by bowing its rim with a bow for stringed instruments. In this case, a skilled musician may obtain the lowest tone (such as the one created by rubbing with the soaked finger) and also one or more higher notes, corresponding to the glass bowl highe History Musical glasses were documented in Persia in the 14th century. Apel, Willi (1969). Harvard Dictionary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass Harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from , ''harmonia'', the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). It was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin. Names The name "glass harmonica" (also "glass armonica", "glassharmonica"; ''harmonica de verre'', ''harmonica de Franklin'', ''armonica de verre'', or just ''harmonica'' in French; ''Glasharmonika'' in German; ''harmonica'' in Dutch) refers today to any instrument played by rubbing glass or crystal goblets or bowls. The alternative instrument consisting of a set of wine glasses (usually tuned with water) is generally known in English as "musical glasses" or the "glass harp". When Benjamin Franklin invented his mechanical version of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekola
The Ekola is a friction idiophone of the Ovambo People of Namibia. The instrument consists of two to four calabashes, sewn and plastered together in sequence from largest to smallest to form a linked series of resonating chambers. The largest calabash has a hole on its top. A notched palm rib extends over the length of the calabashes. Sound is produced by placing the Ekola on the ground so that the hole in the resonating chamber faces up, and alternately rubbing across the palm rib's notches with one short thick stick and a bundle of several long, thin sticks. In traditional Ovambo societies, only healers of the Third Gender ''ovashengi'' were allowed to play it. History For most of its existence, the Ekola seems to have been limited in its use to particular rituals or private formal occasions, so that knowledge of its existence outside of Ovambo culture has been fleeting and intermittent. For example, after Italian missionary Giovanni Cavazzi published a drawing of the instr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standing Bell
A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost. Such bells are normally bowl-shaped, and exist in a wide range of sizes, from a few centimetres to a metre in diameter. They are often played by striking, but some—known as singing bowls—may also be played by rotating a mallet around the outside rim to produce a sustained musical note. Struck bowls are used in some Buddhist religious practices to accompany periods of meditation and chanting. Struck and singing bowls are widely used for music making, meditation and relaxation, as well for personal spirituality. They have become popular with music therapists, sound healers and yoga practitioners. Standing bells originated in China. An early form called took the shape of a stemmed goblet, mounted with rim uppermost, and struck on the outside with a mallet. The manufacture and use of bowls specifically for 'singing' is believed to be a modern phenomenon. Bowls that were capable of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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