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  • interesting video and very informative

  • brilliant video

  • sorry but this got me humming whether a wok hammered and tuned for basic chord interpretation or a 64 piece orchestra they're are primal connections which we cannot deny?? and please do your research b4 a knee jerk key board jockey response !!!!!

  • Please correct me if i'm wrong the harmonic resonance set to base chord then interrupted by musical scale! according to what we perceive is melodic? please forgive my ignorance but i believe harmonic resonance on any circle upon any basic Implement is achievable! with correct interpretation & Intonation? Water adds the olfactory experience? but the touch point IS + OR - to harmonic resonance complying to interpretation of what we call pleasant harmonious chords? plz no criticize to harshly

  • hahahahahahahahaha!!! people is so stupid! 570,000 views for a guy who moves their hands randomly with a song playing in background!

  • @McAko It's real, idiot...

  • Why didn't the Ontario Science Center have stuff like this when I was a kid visiting the place?! I would have rocked the hell out of that thing! When I was there they had a spinning disc with holes in it tucked all the way in the back of the lower hall which had little air guns that were activated by an octave of piano style keys.

  • real??

  • @asian3513 Yes, you can buy one from WhiteWater West in British Columbia (for use in waterparks) or from SCS Interactive in the US. Hydraulophones are also manufactured by FUNtain Corporation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • @hydraulist im from toronto lmao, but anyways, how is the sound produced? and would it work without water?

  • That is awesome!!!

  • I'd like to play some southern gospel on that

  • i thought this was fake at first

  • some musicians worry about callouses... with this you'd have to worry about pruney fingers

  • @kilogolfsix LOL! So true!

  • I love this. Its great!

    

  • woooooooooooooooo

  • @Halileet Whahahaha

  • He's not asian ! :O

  • @Queltaz13 well im pretty sure that somewhere out there, there is an asian guy beating him O_o

  • cant believe it!!!! congrat...:-)

  • thanks wikipedia.

  • Watching Pachelbel being played on this incredible instrument made me think of something:As a(god-awful)organist myself, the chord progression is usually played on pedals...would it be possible to put some kind of pedal-ish thing on this instrument for bass notes?

  • @iloverush123 Yes, some hydraulophones have a bass division that can be played by the feet. This consists of a row or arc of ground nozzles that the player steps on. One hydraulophone was built with a foot area (12 large jets operated by the feet of the player) and two fingerboards, one for each hand. See it by searching for the keyword "best gadgetoff" on the website,

    glogger (dot) mobi

  • Woooaaahhh!!!!

  • where is that located

  • Dude! I was there and totally didn't know about it!!! :(

  • this is fake?

  • @pedrogatin12 Nope. it's a real instrument.

  • THANK YOU STUMBLEUPON

    

  • Thanks stumbleupon.

  • I recently visited the science center. Unfortunately, when some of the holes were plugged, no sound was heard. It seemed as if only half of the holes were working.

  • @Halileet A person who plays hydraulophone is usually referred to as a "hydraulist".

  • How does this thing work?

  • @xFalloutVids Hydraulophone is patented and patent-pending; web links don't work so well in YouTube but a patent search engine on "hydraulophone" ....

  • can anybody use this one?

  • @CREGGYAS Yes, it is open to the public 24 hours a day for anyone to play without having to pay OSC admission, since it is outside the admission pay area.

  • bezvezarija! skoro milion eura uluda potrosenih, a za sta? za malo "svitla"

  • Muito interessante!!

  • what song was that

  • @fallout3freak360

    It says in the title, and in the description... It's Pachelbel's Canon

  • Is it a modern version of the water organ of the Antiquity or the Middle-Ages?

  • @Halileet Although I agree with others in the respect that your comment can be construed as funny or clever, I wish to clarify: Raisins get their wrinkled shape through dehydration, whereas prolonged water exposure to our fingers actually causes water to enter our skin via osmosis. The wrinkling of our fingers in this case is actually the result of expansion of the skin caused by the extra water, contrast to the process that drying and dehydration has on grapes -> raisins. ^_^

  • Made me wanna pee

  • now play the final countdown!

  • hey make more videos, that thing is amazing. where can i read how it works?

  • I wonder if they sell any in the scale your playing?or with the same amount of holes if that makes sense...im more of a piano player but this looks like an awesome twist to it.

  • @ashmanly It actually makes sense. In any instrument, there's a thing that vibrates and something to determine at what frequency it will vibrate. I believe that in the hydraulophone, the thing vibrating is your finger, and it's not just water coming out. There's air too.

  • @ashmanly Actually, hydraulophones, including this one, are very real, although somewhat obscure. The one in this video is the biggest hydraulophone in the world, out in front of the Ontario Science Center.

    Let's not start blurting out false claims with no reputable source to back us up, hmm?

  • you have a realy nice camera ... *__*

  • thisis amazing!

  • How do you get one...? Not unless you WANT to run up your WATER BILL!!

  • @PerrrfictKats

    I bet you could run a pump from a fish tank to recycle the water from the base back through the top.

  • I think Steve Mann is some sort of genius.

    It isn't for nothing he is considered the worlds first cyborg ^^

  • how does it work? its awesome :D

  • could you make me classes of this instrument?

    i pay the water

  • Is this true?

  • Well i think these things are great, but I'm not sure why whenever there's new and interesting sounds developed, people always just do something we've been doing for years before on it... Like when the synthesizer was invented, someone stuck piano keys on it, and played it like a keyboard. And when the electric organ was invented, people started to play the same things that they played on a regular organ.

  • @JoshuaJeanMusic

    strange myopic comment - so electronic instruments are still confined to keyboards? how about those instruments based on human movement and continuous controllers? there are even drum machines controlled by heartbeats - check out things like the laser controllers and wiimote midi controllers and kinect instruments - we play things based on old techniques cuz it's what we know - then we LEARN and GROW - much like umm EVERYTHING? you must be talking about mainstream instruments.

  • @kimjongwil I think you've just kind of missed my point. It's an amazing instrument, but it's confined to the western 12 note cycle. I never said that electronic instruments are confined to a keyboard, i merely suggested that there is a tendency to play/produce notes we are familiar with, and to play tunes, erm, for example lets say PACHELBELS CANON. It's got nothing to do with the instrument, and everything to do with how we play it.

  • How does it work? Does it still work without the water?

  • Amazing! You can play it and wash your hands at the same time!

  • 48 people with wet hands accidentally slipped their mouse when clicking like.

  • this is fuckign fake you idiots!

  • @mmiguy2306 no... no it's not you can check it out yourself look it up!

  • @mmiguy2306 ¬¬ prove it

  • @mmiguy2306 you're obviously not a musician

  • @mmiguy2306 you need to go out more often.

  • ITS FAKE

  • @Porcupinespecial

    wikipedia it dumbass

  • I always dream of building an acid house sound machine that uses soap foam to make the bubbling noises like a TB-303. Perhaps it may employ similar mechanisms. Also a kind of punch card or cylinder could be involved to hold repetitive patterns.

    Directing thin water jets on a glockenspiel or gongs, a plastic snare drum and such things (of water resistant material) could certainly also be used to make interesting sounds.

  • Can you play water music on this?

  • BEAUTIFUL !

  • i wish my shower could do this...

  • EVERY CITY SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THESE.

  • Beautiful

  • Brought tears to my eyes . . .

  • Very nice! They were doing repairs on it when I went so it had a very limited range to play with. :( I need to go back now!!!!

  • WTF you sure your not putting music in the background ?

  • its so relaxing

  • I WANT TO MAKE ONE OF THESE >w<

  • Why only 44 seconds?

    How does this work?

    Neat!

  • I'd love to hear that song recorded with better sound quality. It's awesome.

    These instruments are fucking awesome.

  • if this was in america someone would shit on it and hit it with a hammer

  • Elvispdude says, "This man has the power to make a pryamid if he chooses to! Add electronic magnets, cross-sectioned to excate earth locotation, with logorithmic weight compared to object height: and it will lift with consistancy to the purity of the note!"

    The rest of the world can eat my shorts!

  • Put a magnet on the purity of notes that match the logorithmic weight to the cross-section of latitidude and longitiude(to the secont) with the object: "it will lift in mid-air!"

    Count on it! elvispdude

  • that is awesome

  • I want one of those

  • innovative musical public architecture yah

  • r u kidding me

  • awesome! ilove canada

  • awesome Oo

  • very nice!

  • I guess you don´t have to worry about dry skin in your hands.... :)

  • What a refreshing cool sound

  • is the water splashing noise intentional? because i know how you can easy get rid of it

  • WTF HOW DOES THAT WORK????

  • wow! where is it? how you get one of these

  • @MsMusicPrincess It is the main centerpiece out in front of Ontario Science Centre at 770 Don Mills Road, near the intersection of Don Mills and Eglington, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The instruments are manufactured by FUNtain Corporation. You can also get them from SCS Interactive in the U.S. or WhiteWater West in British Columbia, Canada, the two licensed manufacturers of FUNtain Hydraulophone technology.

  • @hydraulist k thnx

  • @hydraulist My mind boggles!! Thanks for the info!

  • thats the coolest thing i have ever seen

  • is this real life?! wow!

  • Wow, never seen it done this way, creativity personified.

  • Amazing

  • 5/5 lol I love it

  • FANTASTIC!!!

  • How does the sound come out??

  • this is one of the silliest, most impractical instruments ever, but intriguing,

  • Sound like 8 bit music.

    Don't get it wrong, it sounds great although quite similiar.

  • Man this is AWESOME O_O

  • I want to learn how to play this. >8(

  • must suck to play when it's cold outside.

  • I'll hear about that soon enough. My cousin is playing a hydraulophone for the Governor General in Ottawa this weekend.

  • @msm2you

    any videos from the weekend?

    Hydraulophone would sound great together with hang.

  • Seems that you got all the footage - Jeff Burke (Bassooner or Later) is my "cousin" by choice.

  • Wow. How does that work??? O.o

  • Tres original

  • how was any of that bad?

  • If you can play hydraulophone better than that, please post a video of you playing this song (or any other for that matter).

  • .... interesting!!!!

  • beautiful i love seeing new instruments

  • where is it?!

  • It is the main centerpiece out in front of the building,

    Ontario Science Centre

    770 Don Mills Road

    North York, ON M3C 1T3

    (416) 696-1000

  • lol@ the camera getting wet

  • That is quite a sight! How do they work?

  • very cool

  • thats brilliant!!!

  • dude, this is awesome! first time to see this kind of organ! amazing invention!

  • this type of organ has been around for ages. before pipe organs. before the AD years.. back with the greeks.

  • If you know of any specific prior art, please give a specific reference.

  • if you are referring to what i said about these things being around for a long time, simply just google hydraulis. they've been around for quite some time

  • The hydraulis is simply a water-powered air organ. The hydralis is played by pressing wooden keys, to let air into the air pipes. The water is neither the user interface nor the sound production, but merely a source of power or energy to pump air. A modern church organ is a hydraulis in the sense that the blower is run by hydro ("hydor") electricity, e.g. Niagara Falls turning a water turbine to power the blowing of the air.

  • you are right, i am wrong

  • oooooooooooo thank you!

  • no...

  • I'D WANNA PEE AFTERWARDS!

  • ? is this true? can't believe it.

  • Hey Maaannn

    This is far out stuff man.

    Liquid music Wow.

    Just keep the Jello away man.

  • it would be my dream to play one of these! WOW

  • wow amazing...why are you people arguing about alternate energies??wtf anyways...5 stars

  • Amen ApbnJ27! seriously. it's a musical instrument, and everyone has to argue about whether or not it recycles its water. although, it is pretty entertaining to watch you guys go at it... awesome video!

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  • you can have a pump. but that is again wasting electricity. But you can have a syphon.

  • Arguing on an internet video about a water organ. This is what cool kids do.

  • @mmarocker awe crap i hit the wrong thumb button. sry :( :( :(

  • no, it RECYCLES the water that it COLLECTS. it probably used a BATHTUB worth of water when it was built.

  • oh okay.. ^^

  • this wasnt an attempt to ruin the environment, it was to bring upon a fun and scientifically revolutionary musical instrument to the public.

  • why complain? thats beautifull and besides we have to die some time why not have a good time and speed up our distruction anyway? the world was never infinate nothing we can do

  • you sir, are an ignorant selfish piece of shit.

  • those are some strong words... but hey rlly why fret about what were doing? just have fun with it while u can! if u ask me fun is the meaning of life

  • it's selfish to sacrifice resources now with no concern of how it will effect one in the long run.

  • How do you know it's not being recycled, do you not see that it's all being collected where it falls off....Dumb, ignorant, self-righteous pricks, they get served everytime....

  • Wow...I'm sure the electricity is what you were reffering to...Electricity which can be produced by solar panel, wind harvesting, water turbines on flowing rivers, soon to be mass produced by geothermic harvesting....But of course you were worried about the minute amout of electricity used here....Your computer uses more energy in a few hours, if even that long. Think about that.....

  • He has a point. And he isn't being selfish in any way....The world isn't infinite....Yet the whole speed up destruction is absurd considering that all three of our energy usage combined, including the whole lot used by this instrument over decades of usage now and into the future is but a tiny speck in the worlds daily usage, which in turn is a speck in the worlds lifetime usage...But let us enjoy this in our short lives.

  • does it? what about the fan?

  • that's true, but then shouldn't you be commenting on a video of a water park?

  • The camera's in close to the water jets and a long way from the organ pipes. The sound comes mostly out the ends of the curved pipe and where the organ pipes are.

  • youre hungry , go choke Quick.

  • XD but i love the sound :)

  • Did I say EVERYTHING? Grats on reading comprehension.

  • You said instruments, without specifying musical instruments.

  • wow that was very different and its enviorment friendly lol

  • What musical instruments are unfriendly to the environment?

  • Instruments made of wood maybe?????

  • Riiight.

    So EVERYTHING made of wood is Environmentally unfriendly?

  • Why? cause it consumes water for no reason?

  • No... the water is probably run by pump... so the real waste is the energy the pump take up...

    but bus waste way more than that pump so why not complain about them rather then this...

    (and yes... the only why buses save on our carbon footprint is if every time there make a trip they are filled completely... since this is not happening we are not cutting down on emisions.)

  • As the main water feature out in front of a landmark architecture site, it runs much less water than any other fountain of a similar building elsewhere in the world.

    Hydraulophones are green technology because they use the water for more than just one purpose and also because the water is at the scale of a persons fingers rather than shooting 100 feet in the air like many other similar fountains.

  • the water is cycled around very little consumption

  • don't quit the day job ;)