Pyrophone, 1869.

Image number: 10263045

Pyrophone, 1869.

This musical instrument was invented by F Kastner. The notes are produced by the jets of flame burning in a series of glass tubes of different lengths. Kastner wrote about the instrument in a monograph called 'Le Pyrophone' which he published in Paris in 1876.

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10263045
Credit:
Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
Date taken:
12 January 2004 14:37
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Science Museum
 

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