Euphon
The euphon is a musical instrument designed by Ernst Chladni in 1789/90 . It consists of glass rods that are made to vibrate lengthways by rubbing them with wet fingers. These in turn stimulate coupled plates and resonance tubes to vibrate, which causes the full, organ-like tone of the instrument.
There were further inventions of such friction idiophones , which modified or similarly used the principle of the excitation of bars by friction with a transmission of the vibration to sound bodies:
- 1799 the Clavicylinder , also by Ernst Chladni
- the Chalybssonnans by Johann Christian Dietz (* 1804 in Emmerich , † 1888 in Paris)
- 1810 the Terpodion by Johann David Buschmann
- 1952 the Cristal Baschet , a contemporary implementation of the Euphon by Bernard and François Baschet
- 1985 Sascha Reckert's Verrophone
literature
- About Mr. Uthe's Xyharmonicon and some related instruments . In: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , No. 25, 1810, pp. 385–390 ( digitized from Google Books )
- EFF Chladni, about his new euphon, and about the laws according to which the vibrations in it are directed . In: Annalen der Physik , Volume 75, 1823, pp. 69–82 (digitized from Gallica )
Web links
- Sascha Reckert: Further developments of the glass harmonica up to the end of the 20th century. Retrieved January 30, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , No. 25, 1810, p. 388 ( available online at Google Books ).