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2. Water drum - Wikipedia

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   Two water drums. Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a unique resonant sound. Water drums are used all over the world, but are found most prominently in a ceremonial as well as social role in the Indigenous music of North America, as well as in African music.

3. Waterphone - Wikipedia

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   The waterphone is a modern invention influenced by a Tibetan drum—encountered by the inventor in the early sixties—containing a small amount of water affecting its timbre. [3] It is also related to the nail violin, which also used a resonator and rods (nails), and is struck or bowed. [4]

4. Hydraulophone - Wikipedia

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   The water must be "blown" into the hydraulophone by way of a pump which can be hand-operated, wind-operated, water-powered, or electric. Unlike woodwind instruments in which there is one mouthpiece at the entrance to the flute chamber, hydraulophones have mouthpieces at every exit port from the chamber.

5. Glass harmonica - Wikipedia

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   A glass harp, an ancestor of the glass armonica, being played in Rome.The rims of wine glasses filled with water are rubbed by the player's fingers to create the notes.. 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 ...

6. Membranophone - Wikipedia

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   Water drums are also sometimes treated as a distinct category of membranophone. Common in Native American music and the music of Africa, water drums are characterized by a unique sound caused by filling the drum with some amount of water. [8] The talking drum is an important category of West African membranophone, characterized by the use of ...

7. Ocean drum - Wikipedia

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   The ocean drum was originally called the geophone. It was invented by composer and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen for his orchestral piece Des canyons aux étoiles... in 1972, inspired by the Native American water drum. The first prototype of the 'geophone' was constructed by a Parisian instrument maker.