"to different musical scales and keys. The instrument can record a repeating loop of adjustable length, set to any tempo, and new loops of sound can be layered on top of existing ones. This lends itself to electronic dance-music but is more limited for controlled sequences of notes, as the pad on a regular Kaossilator is featureless. The Eigenharp is a large instrument resembling a bassoon, which can be interacted with through big buttons, a drum sequencer and a mouthpiece. The sound processing is done on a separate computer. The XTH Sense is a wearable instrument that uses muscle sounds"
"Kroncong Kroncong (pronounced ""kronchong""; , ) is the name of a ukulele-like instrument and an Indonesian musical style that typically makes use of the kroncong (the sound ""chrong-chrong-chrong"" comes from this instrument, so the music is called keronchong), the band or combo or ensemble (called a ""keronchong orchestra"") consists of a flute, a violin, a melody guitar, a cello in pizzicato style, string bass in pizzicato style, and a female or male singer. The name ""Kroncong"" may be derived from the jingling sound of the ""kerincing rebana"", as heard in the rhythmic background of the music created by the interlocking"
"Cologne, in 1958, conducted by Stockhausen, Bruno Maderna and Pierre Boulez. It has been performed by Simon Rattle, John Carewe and Daniel Harding. Orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello, and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections. Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes appear in a fifth keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and, for performances of some modern compositions, electronic"
"those instruments were deemed rural and not appropriate for music on academic level. Athanasius Kircher's Katzenklavier uses a similar concept with cats. This sort of caricature was often used when new music styles came around or were adopted in musical realms that had not dealt with them previously. The cat organ, a similar instrument using cats, is used in stories which criticize the cruelty of royalty. Monty Python's ""Musical Mice"" uses mice instead. Piganino The Piganino, a portmanteau of ""pig"" and piano, is a conjectural musical instrument using a keyboard as to produce sound from pigs by poking them. Satirical"
"Acme siren The Acme siren is a musical instrument used in concert bands for comic effect. Often used in cartoons, it produces the stylized sound of a police siren. It is one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of an orchestra. The instrument is typically made of metal and is cylindrical. Inside the cylinder is a type of fan-blade which, when the performer blows through one end, spins and creates the sound. The faster the performer blows, the faster the fan-blade moves and the higher the pitch the instrument creates. Conversely, the slower the performer blows, the lower"
"the standard instrument of German orchestras. The product portfolio also comprises trumpets, flugelhorns, Wagner tubas, baritone horns, euphoniums and tubas. Alexander – or ""Alex"" – horns are a popular choice with professional players. Probably the best-known Alexander horn is that played by Dennis Brain in his near-legendary recordings of the Mozart horn concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra. This instrument was badly damaged in the crash which killed Brain, but was restored by Paxman of London and is now on display, along with an Alex played by Brain's uncle Alfred Brain, in the Royal Academy of Music museum. On the occasion"
"orchestra featuring, among each other, a piccolo (Peepo), a flute, an oboe, a clarinet, a bassoon, a trumpet, a French horn, a trombone, a tuba (Tubby), a violin, a cello, a double bass, a xylophone, cymbals, a timpani and a celeste. Tubby, the orchestra's tuba, comments after a rehearsal's warmup that he is tired of playing only the bass line. This draws ridicule from the other instruments, and Tubby runs off crying to a nearby creek. A frog who lives there consoles Tubby; both are treated poorly, as neither is thought to be capable or worthy of a solo. The"
"Melodica The melodica, also known as the pianica, blow-organ, key harmonica, free-reed clarinet, face piano or melodyhorn, is a free-reed instrument similar to the pump organ and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing air to flow through a reed. The keyboard is usually two or three octaves long. Melodicas are small, light, and portable. They are popular in music education, especially in Asia. The modern form of the instrument was invented"
"Double bass The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western classical music. The bass is used in a range of other genres, such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly, psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music. The bass is a transposing instrument and is typically notated one octave higher"
"and contrabassoon (or contrabass sarrusophone), four horns, two trumpets (in C), two cornets, three trombones, timpani, glockenspiel, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, harp and strings. The formidable glockenspiel part is sometimes handled by a pianist playing a keyboard glockenspiel or celesta, but is usually played by a percussionist on a traditional glockenspiel making it a common orchestral excerpt for percussion auditions. Dukas also made a transcription for two pianos of this orchestral piece. Although ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"" was already a popular concert piece, it was brought to a much larger audience through its inclusion in the 1940 Walt Disney animated concert"
"Claviorgan The claviorgan (also known as the claviorganum, claviorgano, clavecin organisee) is a combination of a stringed instrument (usually a keyboard instrument) and an organ. Its origin is uncertain but its history can be traced back to the fifteenth century. According to one account, the instrument was invented by the Moorish instrument maker Mahoma Mofferiz, with his earliest known example documented in 1479. Other ""Clabiorganos"" or ""claui organos"" are documented in Spain by the year 1500, and the instrument seems to have spread from there. A number of ""virgynalls with regals"" are mentioned in the inventories of Henry VIII in"
"Creation"" and ""The Seasons"", where the part for the contrabassoon and the bass trombone are mostly, but not always, identical), and Mozart had occasionally used it in other genres (e.g., in the ""Coronation Mass""). Composers have often used the contrabassoon to comical or sinister effect by taking advantage of its seeming ""clumsiness"" and its sepulchral rattle, respectively. A clear example of this can be heard in Paul Dukas' ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"" (originally scored for contrabass sarrusophone). Igor Stravinsky's ""The Rite of Spring"" is one of the few orchestral works that requires two contrabassoons. As a featured instrument, the contrabassoon can"
"Orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello, and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections. Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes appear in a fifth keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and, for performances of some modern compositions, electronic instruments. A full-size orchestra may sometimes be called a ""symphony orchestra"" or ""philharmonic orchestra"". The actual number of musicians employed in a given"
"his ""Musical Joke"". A century later, Saint-Saëns composed ""The Carnival of the Animals"" as a musical joke for his friends; several of the movements contain musical parody, radically changing the tempo and instrumentation of well-known melodies. Bartók's ""Concerto for Orchestra"" (1943) features the appearance (followed by a trombone raspberry) of a theme from Shostakovich's ""Leningrad"" Symphony. In theatrical music, the 18th century ballad opera, which included satirical songs set to popular melodies of the time, involved some of the broadest musical parodies. In ""Così fan tutte"" Mozart parodied the elaborate solemnities of opera seria arias. His own ""The Magic Flute"""
"but this is an unrelated recent development. The euphonium has historically been exclusively a ""band"" instrument (rather than an ""orchestra"" or ""jazz"" instrument), whether of the ""wind"" or ""brass"" variety, where it is frequently featured as a solo instrument. Because of this, the euphonium has been called the ""king of band instruments"", or the ""cello of the band"", because of its similarity in timbre and ensemble role to the stringed instrument. Euphoniums typically have extremely important parts in many marches (such as those by John Philip Sousa), and in brass band music of the British tradition. Other ensembles including euphonium"
"Orchestrion Orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music. The sound is usually produced by pipes, though they will be voiced differently from those found in a pipe organ, as well as percussion instruments. Many orchestrions contain a piano as well. The first known automatic playing orchestrion was the panharmonicon, invented in 1805 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel. Friedrich Wilhelm Kaufmann copied this automatic playing machine in"
"Musette de cour The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux. Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a double reed, giving a quiet tone similar to the oboe. The instrument is blown by a bellows. The qualification ""de cour"" does not appear in the name for the instrument in original musical scores; title-pages usually refer to it simply as a ""musette"", allowing occasional confusion with the piccolo oboe, also known as the (oboe)"
"Ratchet (instrument) A ratchet, also called a noisemaker or Knarre (German) (or, when used in Judaism, a gragger or grogger (etymologically from ), raganella or ra'ashan ()), is an orchestral musical instrument played by percussionists. Operating on the principle of the ratchet device, a gearwheel and a stiff board are mounted on a handle, which rotates freely. The player holds the handle and swings the whole mechanism around. The momentum makes the board click against the gearwheel, producing a clicking and rattling noise. A popular design consists of a thick wooden cog wheel attached to a handle and two wooden"
"piano: this section is marked Allegro pomposo, the perfect caricature for an elephant. The piano plays a waltz-like triplet figure while the bass hums the melody beneath it. Like ""Tortues,"" this is also a musical joke—the thematic material is taken from the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's incidental music to ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and Berlioz's ""Dance of the Sylphs"" from ""The Damnation of Faust"". The two themes were both originally written for high, lighter-toned instruments (flute and various other woodwinds, and violin, accordingly); the joke is that Saint-Saëns moves this to the lowest and heaviest-sounding instrument in the orchestra, the double"
"Theatre organ A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or [especially in the U.K.] a cinema organ) is a distinct type of pipe organ originally developed to provide music and sound effects to accompany silent films during the first 3 decades of the 20th century. Theatre organs are usually identified by the distinctive horseshoe-shaped arrangement of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the instrument's keyboards on their consoles. Given their prominent placement in houses of popular entertainment, theatre organ consoles were typically decorated in gaudy ways, with brightly colored stop tabs, and painted bright red and black,"
"Tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibration into a large mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the newer instruments in the modern orchestra and concert band. The tuba largely replaced the ophicleide. ""Tuba"" is Latin for 'trumpet'. In America, a person who plays the tuba is known as a tubaist or tubist. In the United Kingdom, a person who plays the tuba in an orchestra is known simply as a tuba player; in"
"Western concert flute The Western concert flute is a transverse (side-blown) woodwind instrument made of metal or wood. It is the most common variant of the flute. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist, flutist, flute player, or (rarely) fluter. This type of flute is used in many ensembles including concert bands, military bands, marching bands, orchestras, flute ensembles, and occasionally jazz bands and big bands. Other flutes in this family include the piccolo, alto flute, and the bass flute. A large repertory of works has been composed for flute. The flute is one of the oldest"
"are: Although technically not a keyboard instrument, the cimbalom, a concert hammered dulcimer, is usually placed in the keyboard section, as in Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 and Béla Bartók's First Rhapsody for violin and orchestra. In some cases, one or more concert harps may be placed in the keyboard section. Keyboard section The keyboard section of an orchestra or concert band includes keyboard instruments. Keyboard instruments are not usually a standard member of a 2010-era orchestra or concert band, but they are included occasionally. In orchestras from the 1600s to the mid-1750s, a keyboard instrument such as the"
"Glass harmonica The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from , ""harmonia"", the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). The name ""glass harmonica"" (also ""glass armonica"", ""glassharmonica""; ""harmonica de verre"", ""harmonica de Franklin"", ""armonica de verre"", or just ""harmonica"" in French; ""Glasharmonika"" in German; ""harmonica"" in Dutch) refers today to any instrument played"
"Orchestral percussion Orchestral percussion are percussion instruments used in orchestras and concert bands mainly in classical music and related styles. The term can also refer to the department or study of performance on said instruments at a music school or conservatory. Generally within such a department, students are required to study all aspects of orchestral playing; with marimba, snare drum, and timpani being the three most basic areas of study. Orchestral percussion usually does not include drum set Gongs and tam-tams are easily confused with one another. A gong, generally, is a large hung cymbal with a nipple. As such,"
"""Bruno and the Crumhorn"", two children, Bruno and Sybil, find themselves learning to play the crumhorn almost by accident. Crumhorn The crumhorn is a musical instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, there has been a revival of interest in early music, and crumhorns are being played again. The name derives from the German ""Krumhorn"" (or ""Krummhorn"" or ""Krumporn"") meaning ""bent horn"". This relates to the old English ""crump"" meaning curve, surviving in modern English in 'crumpled' and 'crumpet' (a curved cake). The similar-sounding French term cromorne, when used correctly, refers to"
"Fiscorn A fiscorn () is a musical instrument. It is in the brass family, a bass flugelhorn in the key of C. Originally played in polka bands throughout Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in military bands in Italy, the instrument has migrated to find its home today in Catalonia. Favored over other valved low brass for its haunting mellow tone and bell front projection, the fiscorn quickly became an essential instrument of the cobla band, along with the tenora, tible and flabiol. While the instrument has been dropped from most music ensembles for intonational concerns, the instrument's"
"one last quotation of the musical joke. The work is scored for a large orchestra: piccolo, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B, D clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F and E, 4 horns in D (ad libitum), 3 trumpets in F and C, 3 trumpets in D (""ad libitum""), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, triangle, large ratchet, and strings There also exists a version for piano four-hands, which has been recorded by Percy Grainger and Ralph Leopold. The work was also presented as a ballet with choreography by"
"a large number for basset horn. The Italian name for the instrument, ""corno di bassetto"", was used by Bernard Shaw as a pseudonym when writing music criticism. Basset horn The basset horn (sometimes written basset-horn) is a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family. Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind instrument with a single reed and a cylindrical bore. However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend near the mouthpiece rather than an entirely straight body (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle), and while the clarinet is typically a transposing instrument"
"Harpsichord concerto A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role (though for another sense, see below). Sometimes these works are played on the modern piano (see ""piano concerto""). For a period in the late 18th century, Joseph Haydn and Thomas Arne wrote concertos that could be played interchangeably on harpsichord, fortepiano, and (in some cases) pipe organ. The harpsichord was a common instrument, but never as popular as string or wind instruments in the concerto role, probably due to its relative lack of volume in an orchestral setting. In this"
"Keyboard glockenspiel The keyboard glockenspiel (French: ""jeu de timbre"") or organ glockenspiel is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard. It was first used by George Frideric Handel in the oratorio ""Saul"" (1739). It was also used in the 1739 revivals of his ""Il Trionfo del Tempo"" and ""Acis and Galatea"", and the next year in ""L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato"". Half a century later, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart employed a ""strumento d’acciaio"" in ""The Magic Flute"" (1791) to represent Papageno's magic bells, and this instrument is believed to have been a keyboard glockenspiel. This part"
"the other. Quintron is regularly accompanied by his wife Miss Pussycat, who sings backup and plays maracas. Quintron has invented a number of innovative musical devices. His first invention was called the 'Spit Machine' a hand organ which used saliva as a tuning conductor. Describing how the apparatus works, Quintron explains that ""You had to spit on a stick, like a paint stir stick, and you had two metal leads that you would touch to either end of the line of spit and then you would move the leads closer together - higher pitch - and farther apart - lower"
"Steerhorn The steerhorn (German: ""stierhorn"", also known in English as a cowhorn or bullhorn) is an extremely long medieval bugle horn. The instrument has been used both orchestrally and in war. The steerhorn has a straight tube with an exact conical bore and no bell flare. The steerhorn is used in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", as the score requires one steerhorn in ""Die Walküre"" and four in ""Götterdämmerung"". Today, many orchestras substitute the trombone or bass trombone. The Solti recording, the Golden Ring, had a steerhorn specially made as American soldiers carried off Bayreuth's steerhorns after the end of"