Pyrophone
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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.
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[edit] Related musical instruments
The pyrophone is similar to the steam calliope, but the difference is that in the calliope the combustion is external to the resonant cavity, whereas the pyrophone is an internal combustion instrument.
[edit] Pyrophone history
Pyrophones originated in the 1700s and 1800s.
[edit] Pyrophone fuel sources
Pyrophones are usually powered by propane, but gasoline powered mobile units have been built, to connect to automobile fuel intake manifolds and use the spark plugs and wiring, etc., to detonate one or more of the chambers. Hydrogen pyrophones are often made using upside-down glass test tubes as the combustion chambers.
[edit] References
Les Flammes Chantantes, Georges Fredric Eugene Kastner, 1875.
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