The Waterphone: Hollywood’s spookiest sound effect
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Was It an Extraordinary UFO Event?
The sound comes from an instrument called a water phone. It is made up of two metal salad bowls welded together with tines sticking up around the sides. You put water in the centre, and then you play it by hitting i with a mallet or running a bow against the tines. Thee's no purpos the matrix really back to the future, bat man. A we've found someone who can resolve this mystery for you. Her name is ramie, ok. So that's kind of the sound track of my life right now, is these little hiccups. Do you want to play her the spooky sound you called about, to see if we can scare
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