hydraulophone

plural hydraulophones

1. entertainmentAny of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air.

   At the core of the Hydraulophone is the idea to create a new tool that encourages children to discover their sense

   2009, David Gildiner, “The Hydaulophone: Music from water”, in Imagine: Early Childhood Music Therapy

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   Straying from classical music, there is Steve Mann's hydraulophone (which, even if not quite a match for a Silbermann organ, is great fun on a summer day): […]

   2007 May 17, "aleksios" (username), "Re: music with unconventional instruments", in rec.music.classical and alt.music, Usenet

   The creation of a novel instrument called the hydraulophone, whose sound production is created using water as a medium

   2008, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Solvi Ystad, Kristoffer Jensen, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Sense of Sounds

   On professional hydraulophones for concert performance, the water jets are often arranged like the keys on a piano, and the instrument is played by pressing down on one or more of the water jets, one for each tone of a diatonic or chromatic scale.

   2009, Steve Mann, ACOUSTIC, HYPERACOUSTIC, OR ELECTRICALLY AMPLIFIED HYDRAULOPHONES OR MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES, US Patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0241753.html