Welcome to the worlds' famous manufacture of euphones !
Frédéric Bousquet makes euphones of astonishing quality and beauty. Hearing one of his instruments for the first time is the sonic equivalent of discovering a new primary colour: it greatly expands the palette of sounds available to contemporary composers/performers
Jesse Stewart, composer/percussionist, Canada
An evolution of Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica (1706-1790), the euphon is a revolutionary musical instrument invented in 1789 by the physicist Dr. Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827). Chladni's description of the instrument appeared in musical instrument dictionaries in 1801:
‘The euphone, invented in 1789 and completed in 1790, consists externally of small glass cylinders rubbed longitudinally with fingers moistened with water. These cylinders, about the thickness of a typewriter's nib, are all equal in length, and the difference in sound is produced by the inner mechanism. Pr. Chladni
From his works and those of his ‘travelling scientist’ successors, it was regenerated and magnified in France in the form of Lasry-Baschet sound structures and sculptures (glass organ, 1955 / Cristal Baschet brand, 1970). Internationally, it was renamed by a number of instrument makers: Uranion, Chalypsonance, Bohemian organ, glass harp, etc.
Musicological research shed light on its origins in 2018, in Frédéric Bousquet's doctoral thesis ‘An approach to the instrumental construction of the Titanium Euphone through the study of the Lasry Baschet glass organ and the Cristal Baschet, extended to that of the Euphon by E.F.F. Chladni’, thanks to a collaboration between several research centres MUSIDANSE Paris8, IREMUS, LAUM, LAM/CNRS.
For a long time the only designer in the world, a master craftsman in instrument making and a virtuoso of the instrument, Frédéric Bousquet is pleased to have been joined by a number of colleagues since the publication of his research work.
To commemorate the 220th anniversary of the birth of the Euphone, the Deep Tech Titanium Sound workshop is making the world's first instrument entirely out of aeronautical titanium!
Coloured crystal keyboards, special acoustic horns, playing modes, find out more about us on the networks: https://www.youtube.com/@titaniumsoundeuphone5169
Welcome to the third millennium of sound!
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Since 1998, I have designed more than 40 concert euphones, more than anyone else, with and for as many fascinating artists, who have given a sublime tone to my life as a researcher and craftsman
Dr. Frédéric Bousquet, inventor and master craftsman in contemporary instrument making
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