1 man, 22 instruments

This Swedish guy decided to make his own "one man band" version of the Irish song "Seven drunken nights" so he made it with a couple of different instruments to try to make different music styles on the same song.



It's out of tone, but great work!

Pianist animals

Nora was adopted as a kitten in 2004 from a cat shelter in Cherry Hill, NJ. Her parents, Betsy Alexander and Burnell Yow!, are artists and musicians who live in Philadelphia. As a kitten, Nora showed an immediate interest in the piano during Betsy's lessons with her many private students. One day Nora jumped up on the piano bench, sat in perfect posture with both paws on the keys, and began to play notes. She was just a year old. She has played almost every day since then, and loves to play duets with Betsy's students.



Cocker spaniel plays piano... Better than Mozart!



It's hard to teach a hamster using piano...

Interesting instruments: The hydraulophone

The term hydraulophone refers to a musical instrument that is played by direct physical contact with hydraulic fluid (typically water) in which sound is generated or affected hydraulically. Typically the sound is produced by the same hydraulic fluid that is in direct contact with the player's fingers.

Two people playing "House of the Rising Sun" on the hydraulophone (water pipe organ flute which is the fountain outside the Ontario Science Centre).



Ryan Janzen's Suite for Hydraulophone, Movement II, played in the Great Hall, as recorded by an underwater video camera (gets in close to the water sprays near the end)



Dangerous use of the hydraulophone... Playing the George Gershwin lullaby "Summertime", on hydraulophone, in a canoe :)



The invention of musical instruments that make sound from vibrating water has created a category of musical instruments that do not fit into any of the previously existing classification schemes. Therefore a physics-based organology was introduced, in which the top-level category is the state-of-matter of that which initially produces the sound in the instrument.

This system includes the possibility of instruments that make sound in all three states-of-matter: solid, liquid, and gas. A fourth category for instruments that make sound from high-energy states such as plasma, is also included.

The first three-categories of the Hornbostel Sachs system fall under the first category of the physical organology system, as they all produce sound from matter in its solid state.

This physical organology is as follows:

1 Gaiaphones (Earth/Solid), instruments in which the initial sound-production medium is by matter in its solid-state, e.g. the piano.
1.1 Chordophones: sound produced by solids that are essentially 1-dimensional (having a cross-section much smaller than their length, i.e. strings), e.g. violin, guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, etc.;
1.2 Membranophones: sound produced by solids that are essentially 2-dimensional (much thinner than their surface area) membranes, e.g. drums;
1.3 Idiophones: sound produced by bulk 3-dimensional solid matter, e.g. crystallophone, glass harmonica, xylophone, metallophone, etc., regardless of whether the instrument is operated underwater or in air;

2 Hydraulophones (Water/Liquid): sound produced by matter in its liquid state; instrument itself may be played underwater or played in a surrounding medium of air, with water supplied only to the internal workings of the instrument:

3 Aerophones (Air/Gas): sound produced by matter in its gaseous state, e.g. woodwind instruments and "brass" instruments;

4 Plasmaphones/Ionophones (Fire/Plasma): sound produced by matter in a high-energy state such as plasma, e.g. plasmaphone, etc.;

5 Quintephones (Quintessence/Idea): sound produced informatically, by electrical, optical, mechanical, or other computational/algorithmic means

Benediction song with Pastor Smith

I could feel the joy of the Lord here... :)



E. Dewey Smith, Jr. is the Senior Pastor/Teacher of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope, located in Decatur, Georgia. Prior to moving to Metro Atlanta, Pastor Smith served the Beulahland Bible Church in Macon, Georgia as Senior Pastor/Teacher.

E. Dewey Smith, Jr. commenced his preaching ministry at the tender age of seventeen and Pastoral ministry at nineteen. His first congregation grew from forty-eight to over 3000 members in thirteen years. After faithfully serving at Beulahland, God elevated Pastor Smith to become Pastor/Teacher of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope in December 2003. In just a short time, the church's membership has quadrupled and now exceeds 4000. As the Under-Shepherd of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope, Smith is proud to follow in the footsteps of great Pastors and Preachers who preceded him, men such as: Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., Dr. Sandy F. Ray, and Dr. Hubert Floyd Shepherd.

Pastor Smith's television broadcasts are viewed by millions around the world weekly. He was selected the "Up and Coming Broadcaster of 2006" and "Most Inspirational Person of 2007" on the Streaming Faith Network. Smith's works have been published in "The African American Pulpit Journal" and he proudly serves on the Board of Directors of The Morehouse School of Religion (ITC), Atlanta, Georgia and The United Theological Seminary and Bible College, Monroe, Louisiana.

He is a real star of baptists: www.greatertravelersrest.org