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Instrument Description

A HAPI Drum An easy to play melodic steel tongue drum, inspired by the Hang Drum

Aeolian Wind Harp Played by the wind; free of the touch of human hands

Amazing Pencilina Collision of dulcimer, bass, koto, slide guitar

Aquaggaswack 29 hanging pot lids, a gong tree with a wide sonic palette

Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall Organ World's largest and loudest musical instrument, 150 tons and 33,112 pipes

Balalaika 3-string folk instrument from Russia and the Ukraine

Bamboo Saxophones Sax's crafted by Ángel Sampedro del Rio

Bandura Ukrainian Bandura by Dwight Newton

Bass Stick A "virtual instrument" from the minds of Animusic

Bazantar 5-string acoustic bass -- with an extra 33 strings

Beer Bottle Organ Instead of pipes, this organ uses beer bottles

Bikelophone A palette of sonic exploration, with a bicycle hub

Bonang Javanese Gamelen instrument

Boobam drums Tubular drums made by Bill Loughborough

Bowafridgeaphone Iner Souster's collision of refrigerator grates, metal bowls, and strings

Bubble Organ Unique resonating organ, using balloons, bubbling water, PVC and imagination

Car Music Project Band that uses musical instruments created from a dismantled car

Celestial Harp A unique 72-string harp based on the circle, the square and the spiral

Ceramic Musical Instruments Some of Barry Hall's creations

Chrysalis Unique instrument designed by Cris Forster

Cigar Box Guitar Shane Speal keeps the age old tradition alive

Circular Harp The Circular Harp

Clackamore Percussive and melody mouth instrument

Contrabass Sax in Eb Biggest woodwind in the world, a monster

Cymbalom An old hammered dulcimer with a new twist

Daxophone Hans Reichel's awesome & innovative musical invention, must hear it to believe it

Didgeridoo The oldest wind instrument known to man

Didj-Bass Combo Custom made didgeridoo that wraps around NeaL Brooks' bass

Didjibodhrán Half Didjeridu - Half Bodhrán

DIJBASS Andy Graham's Electric bass didjeridu hybrid

Double Violin Two violins that share a common fingerboard

Due Capi Two headed wood & aluminum wind instrument

Dulcimer Stringed instrument from the Appalachians

Electric Bass Kalimba Catamaran style electric bass kalimba

Electrified Violoncello From the hands of lutheir Dwight Newton, experimental electric cello

Electric Harp Guitar Made by Steve Klein for Michael Hedges

Electronic Bagpipe An analog electronic bagpipe instrument

Elemento Experimental instruments from Elemento

Sandata ng lolo ni tatay Experimental instrument by Lirio Salvador

Planet Stainless Experimental instrument by Lirio Salvador

Sandat 3RB Experimental instrument by Lirio Salvador

E-Sitar 17-string sitar neck on an electric guitar body, an electric sitar

Excedrin Thumb Piano Tiny Thumb Piano by Bob Collier

Fences Violinist Jon Rose plays fences with his bow

Fiddle-dee-doo Globu-tubular horn with goatskin resonator

Fire Organ A thermoacoustically controlled pyrophone organ

Fluba One of a kind tuba-sized flugel horn

Former Guitars Modified, decontextulalized or completely new

Freenotes Instruments Easy to play Gamelan inspired instruments

From Scratch A few of the instruments of "From Scratch"

Gas Tank Orchestra Yes, the instruments are made of old gas tanks

Giant Tuba The giant tuba has over 34 feet of tubing and is nearly 8 feet tall

Glass Armonica One of Ben Franklin's favorite inventions

Gongs Gongs made from found steel plates

Gravikord The unique electro-acoustic double harp

Guitar Bass 10-string Guitar / Bass instrument

Guitar Machine Guitar, bass, and more, played with the feet

Guitarangi da Gamba 30-string guitar/sarangi/viola DA gamba thing

Guitarpsichord Part harpsichord, Part guitar, classical guitar strings played by a keyboard

Guitorgan Univox "Effie" guitar infused with Organ parts

Hang (Hang Drum) Pronounced like "Hung" or "Hong" the Hang is played with the Hands :)

Hank Drum Invented by Dennis Havlena, made from a propane tank, inspired by the Hang Drum

Harmonic Generator 64 strings, 32 spinning motors, a keyboard, and a lot of heavy metal

Harmonic Guitars Experimental guitar-like instruments

Harp Guitar Part guitar, part bass, part harp

Harp-Kora Double-sided harp, strung and played like a Kora

Harp Mandolins Honey, I shrunk the guitars!

Harpouditar A 26-String Guitar / Oud / Zither

Hmong Harp Double-tongued ethereal brass mouth harp

Horns by Tommy DOG Uncommon horns made from common materials

Huaca Multi-chambered pan-cultural clay vessel flute

Hybrid Strings Hybrid stringed instruments by artist Ken Butler

Imratgitar 20-string instrument combining guitar and sitar

Incantor Hand art Incantor by Q. R. Ghazala

IT Experimental stringed instrument by Dana Flavin

'Jomama A fretless baritone 5-string banjo sculpture

Juggernaut (Washtub Bass) Unusual Washtub Bass instrument by Isaac Bassard

Kaisatsuko 2-string unique oriental fiddle with Hurdy Gurdy-like hand crank

Kazoo The kazoo is a type of mirliton, which modifies the sound of a person's voice by way of a vibrating membrane.

Kestrel 920 Subharmonic omnivibrational microtonal sound sculpture

Koralimba Kora inspired double sided electric kalimba

Knutsen instruments Some rare creations of the late Chris Knutsen

LEGO Harpsichord Harpsichord made of over 100,000 LEGO's

LightHarp An electronic Harp that uses lights and lasers to trace strings through space for performers to play.

Lumberhorn An ugly Hillbilly bass evolves into to a less ugly one, and we love it

Madame Chiouque 6-string hybrid that also produces sine waves

Maui Xaphoon and Pocket Sax Small portable, flute-like in appearance, sax-like in sound, pint sized powerhouse

Moodswinger Unique electric microtonal zither-like musical instrument

Multinecked Guitars Creations from spare guitar parts by Claudio Fritschi

Musical Saw The evolution of the wood cutting saw, turned into a musical instrument

Nano Guitar World's smallest guitar, the size of a human cell

Native American Style Flute The song flutes of the Native Americans

Nondo Steel sheet strung lengthwise with music wire

Octavator Hybrid keyboard/stringed audio visual instrument

Optivideotone Optical Theremin that responds to videotape

Oracle A 24-string Harp-Sympitar

Palm Frond Stringed Instruments Unique stringed musical instruments made from Palm Fronds

Pikasso Four necks. Two sound holes. Forty-two strings

Riday T-91 Midi Controller Uses identical fingering patterns for all 12 scales

RingFlute Circular flute invented by James Johnson

RidgeBow A reeded mouthbow by Wayland Harman

Rocket Launcher Electric stringed instrument made of junk

Rumitone A tubular bell, sit-and-spin sculpture

Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee MIDI controller based on changes of pitch

Sarrusophone Gigantic keyed brass wind instrument

Scrap Arts Music Hyper-kinetic scrap metal ensemble

Sea Organ The worlds first pipe organ that is played by the waves of the sea

Sequential Resonation Machine Simple and beautiful sequencer, using pipe resonance to produce pitch

Serpent Invented in the 1500's, bizarre & snake-like

Serpentine Bassoon electroacoustic double reed instrument that controls effects machines and synthesizers

Seven String Resonator Custom resonator guitar with unique 7th bass note

Shakuhachi Flute Endblown Japanese bamboo pentatonic flute

Sheet Metal Band Instruments crafted out of sheet metal and scrap metal

Shruti Stick 12 string creation inspired by the 22 note octave used in Indian music

Singing Stones 100 river rocks suspended by music wire from a wing-shaped sound box

Skatar Guitar and bass made out of a skateboard

Stalacpipe Organ An organ that plays 3 1/2 acres of stalactites

Stamenphone A musical sculpture by Ela Lamblin

Steve Wishnevsky Basses Custom bass creations by Steve Wishnevsky

Stoessel-laute Part Lute - Part Zither

StringStation 40 strings of sonic wonder by Jim Bartz

Stroviols Ukulele Mechanically amplified string instrument

Surba-Half A half-sized Surbahar, a brother of the sitar

Swagerty Ukulele's Crazy uke's from the late 1960's, surfs up dude!

Symphonic House Symphonic House explores the creation of architecture as a musical instrument

Symphonium Philippe Bataille's crazy portable one man band

Theremin One of the earliest electronic instruments

Theremin Cello Extremely rare instrument invented by Theremin

Tamburitza Fretted steel stringed acoustic from SE Europe

Tannerin Best described as a type of Slide Theremin

Trimeister Guitar, mandolin and fiddle, all rolled into one

Triolin Bowed instrument creation by Hal Rammel

Triple-neck Guitar A "virtual instrument" from the minds of Animusic

Trongos 3 joined water drums of stainless steel & bronze

Trump (Jaw Harp) One of the most ancient musical instruments

Trylon Aluminum, steel, brass, wood, amplified harp

Tsabouna Lively sounding wind instrument from Greece

Uberorgan Several bus-size biomorphic balloons comprise this 15,000 organ

Uncello Just like a cello, only completely different

Vienna Vegetable Orchestra A 10-member orchestra that plays instruments made out of fresh vegetables

Violimba Eerie bowed instrument by David Bellinger

Waterphone Haunting creation invented by Richard A. Waters

Weather Harp Wind operated, resonator harp, a product of its design and the wind

Windform A 20-foot long playable horn, built of leather