In Nottingham Sheetfabs have started to build the horn.
Archive for June, 2006
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006hybrid water instrument
Monday, June 26th, 2006Inspired by reading Jacques Dudon’s book, “La Musique de L’eau”, this is a more sophisticated possibility for the basis of the instrumentation, combining an “organ” with the marimba and chime bar instrument described below.
In the book an instrument is described in which a tube with a whistle hole cut into it stands in water. Water poured into an adjacent tube causes air to be pushed into the whistle pipe and make a sound, pitched according to its length.
Here such an instrument is placed underneath, and in the path of, water falling from the pivoting of a shishi odoshi (“deer scarer”) principle instrument, thus combining four sounds; falling and dripping water, a marimba, chime bars and an organ tone.
Such an arrangement would be duplicated a number of times, using differently tuned marimba bars, chime bars and “organ ” pipes.