Called the "Theremin," this unique musical instrument is another of the world's most beautiful sounding and, frankly, strangest. Its spooky sound is produced without the use of keys or strings as with many other traditional instruments.
What are some of the most unique and beautiful instruments from around the world?
Here we have collected some examples of the most unique and interesting musical instruments in the world. This list is far from exhaustive and is in no particular order.
1. The "Cristal Baschet" is very unique and has a beautiful sound to boot
François and Bernard Baschet were born in Paris in 1917 and 1920. The two brothers spent their lives creating sound sculptures and musical instruments. Here is a demonstration of their invention, the Cristal Baschet, in 1961. pic.twitter.com/tOHWFpnObZ — Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) April 10, 2020
The "Cristal Baschet" was invented by François and Bernard Baschet, who are famed for dedicating their lives to developing sound sculptures and novel musical instruments. The brothers developed this unique musical instrument in the 1950s, and it consists of metal rods embedded into a heavy plate.
Each of these metal rods is accompanied by an attached chromatically tuned glass rod that is played by gently stroking a wet finger along it to produce a sound or note. The vibration of the glass passes through the metal rod and to the block of metal. The length of the metal rod determines the frequency of the sound. Fiberglass cones determine the amplification.
2. The "Theremin" is another interesting and unique musical instrument
Called the "Theremin," this unique musical instrument is another of the world's most beautiful sounding and, frankly, strangest. Its spooky sound is produced without the use of keys or strings as with many other traditional instruments. In fact, it is controlled without physical contact at all by the player.
This instrument was developed by accident in the late 1910s when a young Russian physicist called Lev Sergeyevich Termen, westernized to Léon Theremin, was working on high-frequency oscillators and developed this strange electronic musical instrument.
He was trying to develop a way of measuring the dielectric constant of gases but inadvertently created a completely new musical instrument. Theremin did this by adding audio electronic circuitry to the device to produce an audible tone whenever it took a reading.
The result, however, was not what he expected. It not only responded to gases, as intended but also appeared to be affected by people near the machine.
Players move their hands to manipulate electromagnetic fields around two antennae. Sound is controlled by moving hands and fingers around a vertical antenna to raise or lower the tone, and up or down over a looped antenna to control volume.
The theremin's somewhat spacey sound made it popular in science-fiction films, where it was often used as background noise for an alien encounter, most famously in the classic 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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The piano notes are named using the first 7 letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. This pattern then repeats over and over across the keyboard. We will think of the note C as our starting point, since it's the first note of each 12-note pattern.
As you can see, the note C is the note all the way on the left of our 12-note pattern.
That’s why it’s easier to think of the order of piano notes as going from C to C, instead of A to A. C is our starting note, because it happens to be the first note of every 12-note pattern.
But keep in mind, there’s really no such thing as the “starting note” on the piano, or in music in general. Notes go on forever and ever in both directions, up and down, …D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F…, without an end or a beginning.
Even so, it’s convenient to think of one note as if it’s the starting point. It just makes the notes easier to learn, easier to memorize and easier to visualize.
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