Sometimes bigger is better , as in a box seat of chocolates . But with musical instrument , big is just unlike . The boastful instruments can provide racy , full , low billet , but those often come at the disbursal of portability . So if you get a prospect to listen to music made by one of these instruments , do n’t blow over it up .
1. DOUBLE CONTRABASS AND SUBCONTRABASS FLUTE
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Flutes are normally cogitate of as humble , higher - flip instruments , but there are other type of flutes thatare largerand bring forth low note . Thesubcontrabass fluteplays a fourth below the contrabass champagne flute , and the pipe is over 15 feet long . you could hear what the subcontrabass flute go likein this telecasting , and see it in the paradigm above on the right . On the leftfield is a double bull fiddle flute ; both instruments are played by flutist Maria Ramey .
2. ZEUSAPHONE/THOREMIN/TESLA COILS
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Azeusaphoneis what you get when youcreate euphony with Tesla ringlet , although some call this instrument a thoremin . Both names are puns made by apply mythologic immortal ' name to earlier instruments ( sousaphone and theremin , respectively ) . The term " zeusaphone " is trademarked bya companythat sells and rents singing Tesla curl .
The best - known Tesla spiral banding is ArcAttack . The group use two homemade Tesla coil to send arcs up to 12 feet long between them , and they sometimes admit man wearingFaraday suits(to protect them from electrical energy ) in their performances . you could hear a variety of their tunes atthe ring ’s YouTube page .
3. HYDRAULOPHONE
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Ahydraulophoneis an organ powered by piss . When a hydraulophone is not being play , it attend to as a water fountain . The euphony starts when you cover one or more of the water jets , which force the body of water through a calibrate pipe . Many such fountains are part of civil fountain installation . show here isthe FUNtain , a hydraulophone that is part of the Teluscape at the Ontario Science Center . you could learn music played on the Teluscape ’s water organin this TV .
4. OCTOBASS
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Theoctobassis the largest of all stringed instruments . It was invented in 1850 by luthierJean-BaptisteVuillaume . It is essentially a 12 - foot marvellous fiddle , which produces sounds deep than the miserable treble bass . In most vitrine , it takes two citizenry to make for the octobass : one to line the bow and the other to fret the three string .
5. THE GREAT STALACPIPE ORGAN
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TheGreat Stalacpipe Organis bill as the reality ’s largest musical instrument , site bass underground in Luray Caverns in Virginia . Rubber - lean mallets tap the caves ' born stalactites and produce melodic tones . The stalactites used cover 3.5 estate ! mind tothe music the Stalacpipe makeshere .
6. THE WAVE ORGAN
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TheWave Organ , part of the Exploratorium in San Francisco , is a seaboard sculpture that include 25 organ pipework . The pipe are aerate by the action of the waves splatter against them . build by Peter Richards and George Gonzalez and complete in 1986 , the Wave Organ covers several levels of a seaside bulwark in purchase order to work with both high and low tide , although the audio is best at high tide . TheZadar Sea Organin Croatia is a similar task .
7. BOARDWALK HALL AUDITORIUM ORGAN
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TheBoardwalk Hall Auditorium Organin Atlantic City , New Jersey , is the magnanimous pipe organ ever built , based on the number of pipe . When the hallopened in 1929 , the seats capacity was 42,000 hoi polloi . To fill that huge blank space , the reed organ usesover 33,000 pipes ! The console has seven keyboards and more than 1200 stops .
8. TELHARMONIUM
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In 1893 , Thaddeus Cahill conceive what may have been the first significant electronic melodic legal document , by harnessing the feeling make by telephone transmission system . Histelharmoniumtransmitted live euphony over phone lines to any number of people who wanted to hear it , giving us the first tenacious - aloofness unrecorded concert . But what really stand out about the telharmonium — and finally spell its ruination — was its size of it .
To render enough great power to diddle medicine , the instrument included a huge galvanising motor , 12 dynamos , 145 tone wheels to repair various notes and instrument , and a two - person keyboard to control it . Cahill ’s first telharmonium required 12 railway auto for exaltation . He finally establish three models , each bragging and more expensive than the last , and they cost a lot more than they realize . Cahill block play telharmonium concert over phone lines in1916 , and unluckily neither the instrument nor any recording of its music survive today .
