Richard Waters (September 19, 1935 – July 4, 2013) was an American painter and sculptor most notable for inventing the
waterphone
A waterphone (also ocean harp) is a type of inharmonic acoustic tuned idiophone consisting of a stainless steel resonator ''bowl'' or ''pan'' with a cylindrical ''neck'' and bronze rods of different lengths and diameters around the rim of the bowl ...
.
Waters grew up on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast. He graduated from the
University of Southern Mississippi
The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, ma ...
in 1961. In 1965, Waters received his MFA from the
California College of the Arts.
Richard Waters Obituary
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1935 births
2013 deaths
American artists
Inventors of musical instruments
20th-century American inventors
California College of the Arts alumni
University of Southern Mississippi alumni
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