Lark In The Morning Ocean Harp: Can't Find A Waterphone?

Actual Waterphones -- the instruments designed, patented and built by Richard Waters -- sounds like nothing else, and also cost about one grand a pop. Luckily for the rest of us (and unluckily for Mr. Waters) there are numerous decent knockoffs of the Waterphone, and Chicago Sound Designer shows us one: the Lark In The Morning Ocean Harp.

Before watching this video, be warned: after this, there is no turning back. You don't watch the video, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You watch the video, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

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• Lark
• In
• The
• Morning
• Ocean
• Harp
• Waterphone

[tratoor1]

@TheMasterShogun

thats what they use it for

[eatmorbagels27]

@TheMasterShogun actually, it is.

[TheMasterShogun]

It kinda sounds like the moment in movies where a corpse or something really disturbing has be discovered.

[NuclearLullaby]

@theiconoclasm they do! But not exactly in the part most people seem to think!

[theiconoclasm]

pretty sure they use this in the fifth element soundtrack

[acidfriend47]

What are the metal strings called? where can you get those?

[GhostInTheShell09]

DO WANT !!

[KwakeDesign]

Or you can just play it with your hands

[ananagram]

Do you wipe the rosin off between uses?

[UJS8X]

That doesn't look particularly difficult to make. It doesn't really have to be in perfect tune and it's just metal welded together in a certain way. Might have to build one myself.