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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 musicologist Curt 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 *Turntablism#Techniques, Turntable 132.2 Sets of friction plaques. * Clavicylinder Friction vessels (133) 133.1 Individual friction vessels. * Rainstick *Standing bell, Singing Bowl * Ekola 133.2 Sets of fric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nail Violin
} The nail violin is a musical instrument that consists of a semicircular wooden Sound board (music), soundboard, with Nail (engineering), nails of various lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when a Bow (music), bow is drawn across them. It was invented in 1740 by German violinist Johann Wilde. 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 Sound board (music), soundboard, about by in size, with iron or brass Nail (engineering), 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 (music), bow used was fitted with coarse black Haircloth, 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 ... [...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 armonica. Instead of rotating glass bells a wooden cylinder is rotating. This cylinder is coated with a special mixture. Examples of these instruments can be seen in museums all over Europe, including museums in Copenhagen, Leipzig, Vienna, London, Brussels, Stockholm, Jevišovice and Frankfurt/Oder. Manufacture history 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 Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clavicylinder
Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (, , ; 30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a Germans, German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on Vibration, 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 Electorate of Saxony, 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 people, German, Hungarian people, Hungarian and Slovak people, 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, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
