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This CD is full of outrageously inventive new musical instruments. The music ranges from raunchy to decorous and from crazy-happy to contemplative. A huge number of instruments appear -- far too many to list here, but they're all described in 16 pages of liner notes. They include the infamous Savart's wheel, the bird-like branching corrugaphone, the worrisome scraper flutes, the magical Polly, the melancholical musical siren, the wobbly bentwood chalumeau, the glittering disorderly tumbling forth, and many, many more ? all very different from one another, and representing every imaginable class of noise-maker. That includes winds, strings, idiophones and uncategorizables. Most of the pieces are ensemble pieces -- comings together of diverse instruments, with new sounds jumping in at every turn. Tom Waits says: "Bart Hopkin -- inventor, musicologist -- puts things in your ear that your mama told you not to. "Instrumentarium Hopkinis" is a record for the brave, challenging listener and should inspire you to strum your barbecue grill or throw a piano off a building.