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Gallery Of Unusual Instruments

My favourite: The beer bottle organ

Comments

[caitycat.livejournal.com]

aaah! Wonderful, inspiring! When my Dad was teaching at Dubbo South High, the school was having all its old plumbing pipes dug up and replaced - he hated to see all those offcut pieces of conduit go to waste, so he starting making primitive flutes from them... I'm hoping that this site will inspire him all over again- thanks for sharing it!

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Maybe charles should stop throwing out his empties :>

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Nicely done!

And particularly appropriate, as the words to "Eleanor Rigby" were originally written on a bar napkin.

That napkin later sold for $50,000, as I recall.

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[sporklord.livejournal.com]

You see, this is EXACTLY the sort of thing I get a tad bit obsessive over. Like the Bazantar. I've dreamed of owning one of those for quite some time now....

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

I am surprised that the page does not include any of the instruments used by P.D.Q. Bach, such as the tromboon, the windbreaker, and the hardart.

Beer Bottle Organ

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Only in Australia, heehee.

It sounds like a calliope; I like it.

Have you ever heard a glass harmonica played? The sound is so ethereal that when it was furst played, religious leaders wanted it banned as either evil or erotic:

http://www.finkenbeiner.com/soundsample.html

Heh, I guess that highlights a difference between Aussies and Yanks; Aussies make instruments out of beer bottles, and Yanks make them out of wine glasses. }:xD