Talk:Waterphone

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Sounds that way[edit]

An episode of the TV series Alien Nation depicts a Tenctonese character (Buck Francisco) playing a waterphone, implying that it is an extraterrestrial instrument. Asat (talk) 23:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a source we can use as a citation to add it to the article?--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:37, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page Problems[edit]

This page lacks citations and seems to have been created to promote the instument and Richard Waters's website rather than inform readers. 38.116.202.11 (talk) 13:48, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I googled it and it does get quite a few hits with many mentions in movies and use to call whales, etc. I don't know if the name is trademark/copyright, but I did come across others called oceanharps, etc. It is a new instrument and perhaps there is no generic name for them yet, the same as yo-yo when in came out. It would be nice to get references to the uses in movies and whale calling. A few emails may work to oceanographers and movie studios, etc.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:29, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Waterphone use on Aerosmith "Janie's Got a Gun" intro contested[edit]

According to this snippet at http://www.asza.com/r3aero.shtml, Randy Raine-Reusch wrote and performed the intro to "Janies Got a Gun" as a composition named "Water Song" and performed it on glass harmonic (I think that instrument is more commonly known as either glass armonica or glass harmonica — or perhaps just one of several misspelling on that webpage). He mentions getting a waterphone from Richard Waters via Steve Tyler at a later time. --jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:09, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Removed it. On the Janie's Got a Gun page, the instrumentation for Water Song was already given (since 2007) as glass harmonica, albeit without a source. The anza.com source is not independent of Raine-Reusch, so primary rather than secondary, but I added it there since this mistake for a waterphone seems fairly widespread. --jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:34, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Date of invention[edit]

The article said Waters invented it "sometime between 1968 and 1969". There's no such time, except the exact stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. And even if we generously stretch it to mean "in 1968 or 1969", there's nothing at all in the source about the date of invention. Thnidu (talk) 03:20, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Invention doesn't usually happen in an instant. Usually the process takes time. So I would guess what it was meant to say is that the waterphone was invented in 1968, in 1969 or over the 1968-1969 period. — Smjg (talk) 12:07, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]