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waterphone

type of atonal acoustic musical instrument
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waterphone

Summary

waterphone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (79 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • waterphone is credited with the discovery of Richard Waters[2].
  • waterphone is a type of friction idiophone[3].
  • waterphone's Commons category is recorded as Waterphone[4].
  • waterphone's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1973[5].
  • waterphone's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Waterphone'}[6].
  • waterphone's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 13[7].

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Definition and Type

waterphone is a type of friction idiophone[3].

Why It Matters

waterphone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (79 views/month).[1] waterphone has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] waterphone is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → Richard Waters
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → friction idiophone
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007544638005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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