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    A pyrophone, also known as a "fire/explosion organ" or "fire/explosion calliope" is a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or...
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    used by the British Manfred Mann's Earth Band in their 1976 cover. The pyrophone is a calliope-like instrument that uses internal combustion within its...
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    Crystallophone Glass Harmonica Glass harp Glasschord Hydraulophone Plasmaphone Pyrophone Quintephone Sea organ Shishi-odoshi (Japan) Suikinkutsu (Japanese water...
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    Detonations inside the calliope (and steam whistle), as well as the pyrophone, might thus be considered as class 42 instruments, despite the fact that...
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    featuring, or using as accompaniment, a now-obscure instrument called the pyrophone, and apparently was the only composer to specifically write for it. He...
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    now at Agde, as Amphitrite Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes Pyrophone This includes six world expositions (in 1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, 1900 and...
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    Membranophone Candombe drums Uruguay Unpitched Membranophone Cannon Unpitched Pyrophone Used in 1812 Overture Cantaro Mexico Carillon Low Countries Pitched 111...
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    Wendelin Weißheimer plays on the Pyrophone, for which he composed Five Sacred Sonnets for Voice, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Pyrophone and Piano (1880)....
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  • heat pumping. Cryocooler Photoacoustic effect Thermoelectric cooling Pyrophone Thermophone K. W. Taconis, J. J. M. Beenakker, A. O. C. Nier, and L. T...
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    instruments, including the "juggophone", "shatterophone", "topophone", and "pyrophone", which utilized the sounds of beating water jugs, breaking bottles, clinking...
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  • Île-de-France covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra. Pyrophone — a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or similar...
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    the tube can be heated externally and steel wool can serve as a stack.) Pyrophone Rijke, Pieter L. (1859a). "On the vibration of the air in a tube open...
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    the father of physician and musician Frédéric Kastner, inventor of the pyrophone. Livres-partitions La danse macabre, 1852 Les Chants de la vie, 1854 Le...
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  • 1873, the inventor Frederick Kastner developed an organ that he named a Pyrophone. The British inventor Alexander Rimington, a professor in fine arts in...
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  • flame is matter in a high energy state the class comprises the much older pyrophones. A number of computational musical instruments that are not electrophones...
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    was observed as producing a high enough frequency to affect the flame. Pyrophone YouTube clip UCL Phonetics Laboratory 1920s "The Effect of Inaudible Vibrations...
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    creating pyrotechnic spectacles for many events and collaborating on a Pyrophone (MIDI-controlled flamethrower instrument). In 2000, he created Flaming...
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    ISBN 1-884365-08-6.[page needed] Hopkin, Bart (1996). Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments, [page needed]. Ellipsis Arts. ISBN 978-1-55961-382-8...
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  • Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. Hopkin, Bart (1996). Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments. Official website...
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    instrument inventor Bart Hopkin, whose 1998 CD/book Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones had also featured Dadson's group From Scratch. In 2010 the Wellington...
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    Instruments. In 2000, Elvis Costello listed Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones, a collection of recordings of experimental musical instruments, in a...
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    Muller From Scratch contributes Fax To Paris Gravikords, Whirlies, and Pyrophones Compilation CD, Ellipsis Arts CD3630, 1998 Produced by Bart Hopkin of...
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  • Promise of Electronic Music. Hopkin, Bart (1996). Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments. Oxford Online Music Dictionary[permanent...
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  • Experimental Musical Instruments (Cassette) 199? Gravikords Whirlies and Pyrophones, Ellipsis Arts (CD/Book) 1996 Blacklight Braille: Songs from Moonlight...
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    Oeyvind Brandtsegg, http://teks.no/oeyvind, 2002 Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments, CD, with 96-page booklet and CD, Ellipsis...
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  • Musical Instrument Design, 1996, See Sharp Press Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones. Book & CD, Orange, Connecticut: Ellipsis Arts. #3530, 1998 Making Musical...
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