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pyrophone

(ˈpaɪrəʊˌfəʊn)

(Instruments) music an instrument resembling a small pipe organ, designed to produce musical sounds using gas flames burning close together in glass tubes, and producing a sound when the flames are separated by the pressing of a key. Designed by G.F.E. Kastner in 1869

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The answer for one Victorian inventor was a musical instrument which he called the pyrophone.

Amused, or just very confused ? Jenna Coleman has been transporting viewers back to the days when the British Empire was at its height in ITV drama Victoria, but what kept the queen bemused? DOUGLAS WIGHT looks at some of the era's oddest inventions

The grenade fire extinguisher was designed as a life saver but was actually a danger in itself - a bit like the pyrophone, which could warm your home with a simple ditty

Local artist Antoinette Jacobson played the fire organ, or pyrophone, which also was constructed with the help of Iron Guild members from on-site materials.

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A recording that makes use of lounge elements with far more enjoyable results than Songs in the Key of Z is the CD Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Ellipsis Arts CD 3530 [1996]).

Lounge Caravan: A Selective Discography

No big surprise that Waits wrote the foreword for Gravikords, Whirlies, and Pyrophones (Ellipsis Arts), an interesting book-plus-CD pack about strange soundmakers.