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Name of musical instrument?

Crystal Mandie asked:


I’ve heard that a while ago, some famous guy was asked to write music for a play. I am also told that, after experimenting with his piano, he opened up the lid of it then put in some various objects on top of the strings (objects like pinecones)

This new instrument created weird-sounding music that sounds like a guitar and a piano playing together.

Do you know the name of the guy who invented it, and what he called it?

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  1. Fuzzy on March 25th, 2009 5:10 pm

    A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers.
    The idea of altering an instrument’s timbre through the use of external objects has been applied to instruments other than the piano; see, for example, prepared guitar or third bridge guitar.

    John Cage was undoubtedly the composer who put the “prepared piano” concept on the world map, and coined the term. He credited Henry Cowell, and, to a lesser extent, Erik Satie, for contributing to the idea, and was probably unaware of many other precedents described below.