The Cristal Baschet, also known as the crystal organ, sounds very much like it’s crystallophone similitude, the glass armonica. Both of these instruments are friction idiophones, that is they produce their sounds when their glass ‘keys’ (in this case, 54 chromatically tuned glass rods) are vibrated, usually by a wet finger.

“The vibration of the [...]

A bin zasara (a.k.a. bin sasara, sasara) is a traditional Japanese percussion instrument. Due to the bin zasara’s self-vibrating nature, the instrument is classified as an idiophone. The instrument consists of many rectangular wooden slats, made from tonewood (wood that carries sound waves well e.g. maple, ceder, bamboo, walnut) strung together by some [...]

Music of the Spheres, Inc. is the “Stradivarius of wind chimes.” Handmade out of powder-coated, aluminum alloy tubing, the chimes range in size from the average garden chime to the extraordinary 14-footer. Their chimes can be ordered in a surprisingly large variety of familiar or “exotic” tunings and you can even create your [...]

This guy is an incredible wine glass player. Watch the video and be amazed:

About the glass harp:
The glass harp was first discovered by the Irish inventor Richard Pockrich in 1741. “[Richard Pockrich's] instrument consisted of 26 goblets. It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass [...]

A standard hand saw can be used to play music! By tweaking/bending the blade in an “S” shape, one can hit the “sweet spot” with a mallet or use a cello bow to make the saw “sing.” The sound produced is very ethereal sounding -like a woman’s high singing voice or a theramin. [...]

This is a crude, but interesting digital emulation of the glass armonica’s sound: