Teaberry Organ
This is
the instrument that started it all for me: my first conceptual musical
instrument. This instrument was
published in the book "From Mud to Music: Making and Enjoying Ceramic
Musical Instruments" by Barry Hall.
An exerpt: "This unique instrument generates
no sound, can only be heard by the performer, and takes on new sound
characteristics in different settings. To play it, you press your ear
against one of the upper openings to hear that particular pitch. The
sounds you hear are caused by ambient noise being channeled through the
specific lengths of ceramic tube, whose resonances are tuned to a
pentatonic scale. The sound is similar to 'listening to the
ocean' in a seashell. Because the sound is dependent on its
surroundings, no song played on the Teaberry Organ will sound the same
in different settings. The instrument got its name from a gum
wrapper on which Jon sketched his original design."