Three instruments built by musician and edutainer Tom Kaufmann. The first two are lithophones made of granite, and the third is a set of wrenches and bolts called a toolbox glockenspiel.
Xylo is Greek for wood, and Litho is Greek for stone, so a lithophone is like a xylophone, but it's made of stone.
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Magma, a composition for contrabass clarinet, stones and live electronics by Jean-Francois Charles. A commission by Ensemble Accroche Note performed in Dresden, Germany, on October 5th, 2003, during the 17. Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik. More on:
http://www.jeanfr ancoischarles.com
http://www.jeanfr ancoischarles.fr
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Brian Dewan and Jamie Barnes play their own compostition on the Victorian Instrument - The Famous Musical Stones of Skiddaw in concert at the University of Leeds, May 2006
Just one note of a new musical instrument I call the "pagophone". "Pago" is Greek for "Ice". Similar to "xylophone" ("xylo" is Greek for "wood") and "lithophone" ("lith" meaning "rock").
