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Pyrophone
A pyrophone, also known as a "fire/explosion organ" or "fire/explosion calliope" is a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or similar forms of rapid combustion, rapid heating, or the like, such as burners in cylindrical glass tubes, creating light and sound. It was invented by physicist and musician Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner (born 1852 in Strasbourg, France – died 1882 in Bonn, Germany), son of composer Jean-Georges Kastner, around 1870.
One of the pyrophones constructed by Kastner, as seen in 2013 in the Musée historique de Strasbourg Durant's diagram of the sound-creating gas burners,[1] the, "mechanisms that allowed two flames to unite or diverge to produce a musical note"[2] KastnerA pyrophone, also known as a "fire/explosion organ" or "fire/explosion calliope" is a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or similar forms of rapid combustion, rapid heating, or the like, such as burners in cylindricalglass tubes, creating light and sound. [3] Henry Dunant was a proponent, and Wendelin Weißheimer composed Five Sacred Sonnets for Voice, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Pyrophone and Piano(1880). Gaiaphones HydraulophonesAerophones Plasmaphones Quintephones OtherDesigners of instruments Pierre Bastien, Baschet Brothers, Ken Butler, Nicolas Collins, Ivor Darreg, Bart Hopkin, Yuri Landman, Moondog, Harry Partch, Hans Reichel, Luigi Russolo, Adolphe Sax, Leon Theremin, Thomas Truax, Michel Waisvisz
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