Mackie's Mystery Music

Music and musical instruments have been invented by people throughout history. 

Music and science have overlapped in many cultures.  Music and Math relate.  

Some interesting inventions are ( in no particular order )   

the Glass Armonica - wet glass bowls on a turntable -  Benjamin Franklin

the Fotdella - Foot Diller, like a bass violin connected to drum pedals - Jessee Fuller, (San Fran Bay Blues  (~ 1952)

‘Movable Ax’ - Body strap implemented to hold keyboard or synth - Edgar Winter 

Nine String Guitar - Custom guitar builds and tunings, also some wiring and speaker amp mod - Big Joe Williams (~ 1940)

Valving on Tuba - largest instrument in the Brass family, low tones - B. Stolzel (1818)

Flutes - the very oldest discovered music instrument - 40,000 years old - made of bone

Drums - stone knockers, wood and animal skin instruments - Prehistoric

Bagpipes - actually thousands of years old

Ocarina - modern version with ten holes - Donati ( 1853 )

Harmonica - reeds and construction design - Christian Buschmann (1821 )

Harmonica Neck Strap holder - used in self-accompaniment - Les Paul ( ~ 1950 )

Bass drum kick pedal - additional emphasis and versatile drum kit - William Ludwig (1909)

Violin - Andrea Amati recognized as inventor, it was an evolution of the middle age ‘fiddle’ and Rebecs ( ~1550 )

Cello - Andrea Amati, originally viola were played sitting and then bowed; same time period ( ~ 1550 )

Double Bass - associated with Domenico Dragonetti introducing it to Orchestra performance ( ~ 1550 )

Ukulele - Manuel Nunes - small Portuguese ‘guitars’ were introduced in Hawaii, new instrument evolved ( ~ 1880 )

Banjo - now standard five string design - Joel Sweeney (1830)

Mandolin - Evolved from early European mandola, now classic arch top eight strings by Orville Gibson ( 1891 )

Acoustic Guitar - different claims, evolution of instruments 1800 or so

Steel String Guitar - better, different tone and tunability - Christian Martin ( 1843 )

Electric Guitar - different claims and design advances as well, see G. Beauchamp and A. Rickenbacker ( 1941 )

‘Electrified’ Guitar - earliest application of electricity to a guitar, made the strings vibrate - George Breed ( 1890 )

Solid Body Electric Guitar - Having its own sound and resonances beyond 'amp'd' acoustic - Les Paul ( 1950 )

Amplified Harmonica - amplification / over-amping tehnique developed by "Little Walter” (~1951 )

Lyres - the most ancient stringed instruments, like small harps ( before 2000 BC )

Aulos - like flutes and double flutes ( ~ 2500 BC  )

Trumpet - originally used in hunting and battle; also as a musical instrument ( ~ 300 BC )

Clarinet - First ‘true single reed’ instrument, evolved from the Chalumeau - Johann Denner ( ~ 1720 )

Oboe - combined efforts of two musician inventors - Hotteerre and Philidor ( ~ 1770 )

Saxaphone - invented by it's namesake Adolpe Sax, along with other new instrument work ( 1841 )

Accordion - Forced air mechanism and use of finger keys - Cyrill Demion ( 1840 )

Harpsichord - forerunner of pianoforte and piano ( ~ 1300 )

Piano - the Grand Piano has the greatest musical range along with the Pipe Organ - Cristofori ( 1700 )

Metronome - Early pendulum design, Etienne Loulie ( 1696 )

Theremin - First electronic instrument invented by it's namesake Leon Theremin, antennas played ‘in the air’ ( 1920 )

Ondes Martenot - Electronic harpsacord like instrument, also with antenna; Martenot ( 1928 )

Trautonium - Electronic musical instrument played by pressing on a metal plate - invented by Trautwein ( ~ 1930 )

Moog Synthesizer - First practical synthetic sound device allowing new sound treatments  - Robert Moog ( 1960 )

Modern Creations to check out !

Gameleste - [ Bjork ]

Cloud Chamber - [ Harry Partek ]

Conundrum - [ Tom Waits ]

Vocoder - associated with Imogen Heap

Gizmotron - Godley / Creme

Pikasso - associated with Pat Metheny

Dube -  [ Dion Dublin ]

‘laser drum cage’ ?  - Kraftwerk company

Probably some ‘facts’ were overlooked; but as accurate as possible with notes and dates; consider this Info. as a sample

 Anybody have some suggestions for other musical instruments ? ? ? Thanks