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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 (238 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • waterphone is credited with the discovery of Richard Waters[2].
  • waterphone's image is recorded as Hangklang Waterphone.jpg[3].
  • waterphone's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2005001818[4].
  • waterphone's subclass of is recorded as friction idiophone[5].
  • waterphone's Commons category is recorded as Waterphone[6].
  • waterphone's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1973-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • waterphone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/069k_p[8].
  • waterphone's patent number is recorded as US3896696[9].
  • waterphone's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 4cdeebe9-aaa5-4f13-9842-77a387d890ce[10].
  • waterphone's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Waterphone'}[11].
  • waterphone's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 13[12].
  • waterphone's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007544638005171[13].
  • waterphone's Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID is recorded as mp2013015797[14].
  • waterphone's SEKO ID is recorded as 01199[15].
  • waterphone's Personality Database profile ID is recorded as 196670[16].
  • waterphone's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as voterfon-d9d6bc[17].

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Works and Contributions

waterphone is credited with the discovery of Richard Waters[2].

Why It Matters

waterphone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (238 views/month).[1] waterphone has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] waterphone is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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