Weirdest Musical Instruments of All Time via oddmusic

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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
Wheelharp	Beautiful unique creation inspired by the Hurdy Gurdy & Geigenwerk
Windform	A 20-foot long playable horn, built of leather

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