List of fictional musical instruments

A list of musical instruments referenced in fiction which do not exist in reality:

Baliset

In the Dune universe, the baliset is a very long nine-stringed zither. In the 1984 film Dune, the baliset role is filled by a cosmetically altered Chapman stick.[1]

Gaffophone

The Gaffophone is an instrument invented by Gaston Lagaffe in André Franquin's eponymous comics series. It looks like a giant harp with a large horn attached to it and is known for making atrocious noise that makes people and animals run away and buildings collapse. Franquin used it in numerous gags.[2]

Harolina

In the Redwall series of fantasy books, the harolina is a type of stringed instrument played by the anthropomorphic hares of the series.[3]

Holophonor

In the animated series Futurama, the holophonor, played by Fry, is based on the Visi-Sonor and appears in episodes "Parasites Lost" and "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings"

Ressikan flute

In the Star Trek universe, the ressikan flute is a musical instrument played by Captain Picard. The instrument is an artifact discovered on a probe sent out by the former residents of Kataan.[4]

Visi-Sonor

The Visi-Sonor appears in the Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Empire. The fictional musical instrument stimulates brain cells and causes imagined lights, sounds and emotions directly:

"His long fingers caressed softly and slowly, pressing lightly on contacts with a rippling motion, resting themselves momentarily on one key then another – and in the air before them there was a soft glowing rosiness, just inside the range of vision."

With the Mule's great power, the Visi-Sonor became a killing device later in the book.[5]

gollark: Train it to do what, exactly?
gollark: Obviously the same person.
gollark: I mean, we talk similarly, mention GPT-3 sometimes, and use Rust.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Computers can't program themselves usefully yet. If we did, that would be "the singularity", and very, er, *interesting*.

References
  1. "Jazz Times". 2005.
  2. http://www.lefigaro.fr/lefigaromagazine/2006/10/27/01006-20061027ARTMAG90411-un_fabuleux_inventeur.php
  3. The Bellmaker. By Brian Jacques, Allan Curless. Philomel Books, 1995. ISBN 0-399-22805-5, 978-0-399-22805-6. Pg 266.
  4. The Star trek encyclopedia: a reference guide to the future. By Michael Okuda, Doug Drexler, Debbie Mirek. Edition: 3, illustrated. Pocket Books, 1999. ISBN 0-671-53609-5, 978-0-671-53609-1. Pg 408.
  5. Isaac Asimov: The Foundations Of Science Fiction. James Gunn. Rowman & Littlefield, 1996 ISBN 0-8108-5420-1, 978-0-8108-5420-8. Pg 27.
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