The Waterphone: An Unorthodox Musical Instrument
Movie directors (and whales) just love the Waterphone. It’s an eerie, surreal-sounding instrument unlike any other, and it looks pretty unusual too. Musician and craftsman Richard Waters invented the instrument in the late 1960s, and after he passed away in 2013, his friend Brooks Hubbard, a welder and fellow musician, took over the manufacturing operation to keep the Waterphone’s legacy alive and well.
So what exactly is this mysterious musical creature" Waters described his invention like this: “Waterphones are stainless-steel and bronze monolithic, one-of-a-kind, acoustic, tonal-friction instruments that utilize water in the interior of their resonators to bend tones and create water echoes.”
Hmmm. Well, that’s certainly a technical definition. It might make a bit more sense if you actually listen to Waters and others playing the instrument. If the haunting wailing sounds familiar, that might be because you’ve heard it in a number of movies and TV shows, including Poltergeist, the Star Trek movie, Young Guns, the remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Let The Right One In, 24, and The Mentalist. The sound creates an instant atmosphere, so we can see why it’s such a hit among directors. If you’re a serious musician, you’ll probably want to learn about the Waterphone’s tuning specs. Waters explained the principles on his website: “The tonal rods are t...
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