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OwnerSteve William Stephen George Manninventor
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A musical instrument or multimedia input device is disclosed. User input is by hitting or striking water in order to produce an at least partially transient acoustic disturbance, vibrations, or change in the water. In one embodiment rigid pipes of various lengths or diameters emit fluid for being struck by a user at an open end of each pipe. The other end of each pipe is connected to an elastic tubing or other elastic medium, such as a diaphragm or bulb, resulting in a hydraulic resonator. In another embodiment the resonators are formed from variously sized bottles or flasks encased in cement, except for the mouths of the bottles. Each hydraulic resonator may be fitted with a sensor that senses the vibrations in the water and amplifies the vibrations into a sound reproduction system, such as an entirely acoustic impedance matcher or an electrical amplification system.
A liquid-based musical instrument, said instrument including one or more pipes each for being filled with liquid hydraulic fluid, each pipe having an end for being hydraulically open, and an end for connection to an hydraulic reservoir, said instrument also having one or more hydraulic reservoirs, each reservoir end of each pipe being connected to an hydraulic reservoir, said instrument also including a transformer for transforming vibrations in the hydraulic fluid to vibrations in air surrounding said instrument when the instrument is played.
A musical instrument for making music with liquids such as water, said musical instrument having one or more non-downward-facing mouths, each of said mouths being one end of a pipe, said instrument further including a space for elastically holding water to a second end of each of said pipes, said space comprised of a bulb for being filled with water, each of said pipes and spaces chosen to resonate together at one note of a musical scale, when said pipes and spaces are filled with liquid.
A method of playing music using Nessonators™, a Nessonator being defined as a hydraulic water resonator that has a mouth, a hydraulic capacitor in the form of a pipe, and an hydraulic inductor in the form of an elastic element, said method comprising the steps of:
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