Powered by three states of matter (excluding plasma), a violin (solid), a clarinet (gas), and a hydraulophone (liquid) come together to produce this unique version of “Summertime.” Steve Mann (center) is the inventor of the modern hydraulophone.

Another water instrument created by Steve Mann (see hydraulophone) from Ontario Canada. A pagophone, meaning “ice sound” in Latin (similar to xylophone or “wood sound”), consists of ice bars of different lengths. The shorter the length of the bar, the higher the pitch. Acousitc pickups can be attached to the bars themselves [...]

They are best described as self-cleaning, musical, water-fountain keyboards. Hydraulophones are very similar to woodwinds, but hydraulophones run on incompressible fluid (usually water) rather than compressible fluid (air). Hydraulophones are sometimes called ‘woodwater’ instruments. Hydrolophones have the characteristic of polyphonic embouchure, meaning that the player can dynamically “sculpt” each note by obstructing [...]