Experimental musical instrument Experimental musical instrument An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument. Some are created through simple modifications, such as cracked drum cymbals or metal objects inserted between piano strings in a prepared piano. Some experimental instruments are created from household items like a homemade mute for brass instruments such as bathtub plugs. Other experimental instruments are created from electronic spare parts, or by mixing acoustic instruments with electric components. The instruments created by the earliest 20th-century builders
Faye Flam in the Special Projects category of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association's 2011 Keystone Press Awards for her article "Faulting the Forensics". Flam has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize for work in "The Philadelphia Inquirer". Flam's "Planet of the Apes" series drew criticism from Creationists. In an interview with "Discover" magazine, Flam indicated that the most intense criticism of her work came from coverage of climate change. Faye Flam Faye Flam (born c. 1964) is an American journalist. She has written for "Science Magazine" and wrote two weekly columns for "The Philadelphia Inquirer", including one on sex and one on evolution.