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Solinophone

The solinophone (from the Greek words σωλήνες – solines, meaning “tubes” + φωνή – phone, meaning “sound”) is a prototype musical instrument. It was built in 2012 with the intention of exploring microtonal music and sounds, without sound synthesis. It consists of aluminium tubes, vertically aligned within a metallic cube, with three different tunings of an octave each: the 12-tet, the 19-tet and the 31-tet. The 12-tet octave is equipped with automatic hammers that are controlled by a sequencer developed by Future Instruments. The solinophone was built with the support of la Ville de Lausanne, La Manufacture and l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. It was showcased at the Montreux Jazz Festival, les Urbaines festival in Lausanne and at the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL for la Nuit des Musées.