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Suite for Hydraulophone, as performed by Ryan Janzen in the Great Hall, with the Hart House Symphonic Band. This is the world's first orchestral performance in which instruments make sound from all three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). Other orchestras use only 2 states of matter: solid (percussion and strings), and gas (wind instruments).
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Woodwater instruments (hydraulophones) are like woodwind instruments but use water instead of air. This hydraulophone is a hyperinstrument (acoustic instrument with a pickup on each jet, and wireless transmission to other instruments).
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Hatikva (La Mantovana, Ballo di Mantova, originally from 17th Century Italy), played on hydraulophone (water-pipe-organ flute), an instrument that's like a woodwind but uses water instead of air ("woodwater instrument"). Set to a very low and gentle water flow.
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The hydraulophone is an acoustic instrument played by covering up water spray jets to play music. Acoustic hydraulophones are often fitted with underwater microphones (hydrophones) and some are also fitted with a MIDI interface, so that water spray jets can be used as controllers. The main fountain out in front of the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto is a hydraulophone.
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Acoustic hydraulophone fitted with hyperacoustic (hyperinstrument) option to add a variety of instrumental sounds to the natural acoustic sounds made by water (separate fipple-like mechanism for each finger hole so this flute can play chords). (Note that the extra instrumentation does not come with the basic acoustic hydraulophone stock-model.)
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"Nessie", the cute musical sea serpent, returns! The main centerpiece in front of the Ontario Science Centre is a water-pipe organ flute (hydraulophone) fountain. Actually, two of them: the North Nessie and the South Nessie, which you hear at different times in the video.
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Dame Evelyn Glennie meets Professor Steve Man from the University of Toronto Applied Science Faculty. Inventor of the Hydraulophone, Evelyn's Introduction to it. Nov 2007
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Water fountain that's a highly expressive musical instrument. You play it by blocking the water jets in various ways, which forces the hydraulic fluid (water) into the sound-producing mechanism in various ways. It works alot like a pipe organ, except that it uses water instead of air.
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