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Send in pictures of your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, “wind banjos”, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond.
Rules:
1) The instrument must function without human interaction or electricity (unless solar powered).
2) You must have the legal rights [...]

From the National Music Museum:
“This instrument is one of only two surviving over-the-shoulder cornets featuring three valves and five keys made by E. G. Wright.”

Apparently cornets with both valves and keys were cutting edge at the time because they combined both old and new brass instrument technologies.

Lip-vibrating instruments like the cornet, French horn, and the [...]

Songs played:
“1979″ -Smashing Pumpkins
“Annie Waits” -Ben Folds
Donnie Darko theme song
This aerophone was built using PVC pipe and a maple frame. You’d be surprised how many instruments can be made out of PVC pipe: didgeridoos, organs, hydraulophones, potato launchers, etc.
Tyler (the instruments creator) wants to sell his PVC aerophone. I’m not sure if he [...]

ArcAttack blows me away everytime. I can’t even imagine them live. Their instruments include two Tesla Coils, robotic drums, and self-resonating PVC pipe organs. Read an exclusive interview with Giovanni of ArcAttack here.

The Tesla coil is a very odd instrument indeed! With the right controller, this wild-beast-of-an-instrument can be tamed to hum a perfect tune.

From Austin, Texas: An advanced composition of Tesla coils, robotic drums, and a computer controlled, self-resonating pipe organ makes ArcAttack and Resonance Studios one wildly electrifying group of sounds. Their main venue is the club/dance/spirit scene and I could definitely picture ArcAttack performing downtown with some high budget videography (as if the 10ft [...]