The band Not Breathing has been using a Waterphone for
years. If you ever get the chance to see them, it's
pretty cool watching them play it. Dave Wright from
Not Breathing also has a site of some of the gear he
has made. Check out http://www.carrionsound.com/
--- adario <adario@thingsburnup.com> wrote:
> answered my own question thanks to google. i can't
> believe this. it's used for interspecies
> communication!!
>
> 'Shortly after I invented the waterphone, Jim
> Nollman, a drummer working for Greenpeace, took a
> Bass Waterphone to Hawaii where he called a pod of
> whales which circled him as he played and was kept
> afloat by the waterphone. Since that time, several
> whale conservation groups both here and abroad have
> utilized waterphones for interspecies communication
> with whales and other cetaceans.'
>
> from http://www.pas.org/Museum/objects/1097.cfm
> ----- Original Message -----
> ps while i'm on the subject, ron carter's
> percussionist had this instrument that looked like
> something out of fantastic planet. it was made of
> copper or some kind of brassy looking metal. shaped
> like a gourd without about a 2 foot stem and a 1
> foot diameter bowl. the bowl was sealed and had
> water inside of it. and it had spokes running up
> the sides, tangent to the bowl and parallel to the
> stem. and he played the spokes with a bow!! what
> the hell is this that thing?!
>
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