Musical Instruments
- Concertina – Charles Wheatstone
- Theatre organ – Robert Hope-Jones
- Logical bassoon, an electronically controlled version of the bassoon – Giles Brindley
- Northumbrian smallpipes
- Tuning fork – John Shore
- Irish flute
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