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Avant-Garde Acoustic Curiosities
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  • 1. Swedish keyed fiddle blending strings and tangents in folk lore
  • 2. Ancient zither plucked in sacred medieval chants
  • 3. Transverse bamboo flute, soul of Hindustani ragas
  • 5. Horn-lipped wind instrument; Middle Eastern string companion
  • 8. Modern steel tongue drum, shaped like a UFO, tuned for trance
  • 10. Renaissance reed capped woodwind with a curved, mysterious pipe
  • 12. Experimental bowed lyre, where strings sing in skewed harmony
  • 14. Thumb piano from Zimbabwe evoking crystalline overtones
  • 17. Ancient Chinese free-reed mouth organ with a fan of pipes
  • 18. Sympathetic strings resonate in this classical Indian plucked chordophone
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  • 4. Orchestral soprano percussion, metal bars struck with mallets
  • 6. Invented electro-mechanical instrument named for enigmatic vibrations
  • 7. Aboriginal drone pipe requiring circular breathing mastery
  • 9. Triangular Russian folk lute with bright and percussive strums
  • 11. Keyboard instrument producing bell-like timbres for eerie sonnets
  • 13. Electromagnetic waves dance in this eerie touchless box
  • 15. Laminated wood sculptural string instrument blending ethnographic elements
  • 16. Modern mbira variant, tuned for ethereal thumb plucks
  • 19. Tuned kettle drums crafting orchestral thunder and roar

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