ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Waterphone

Okay little one, let me explain what a waterphone is. A waterphone is like a musical instrument that makes spooky sounds. It looks like a UFO with lots of little metal rods sticking out of it.

When you play the waterphone, you fill the UFO-shaped part with water and then use a bow to play the metal rods. When you play the waterphone, it makes different sounds depending on how you play it. Some sounds are deep and scary, like a monster movie sound effect. Other sounds are high and eerie, like a ghostly whisper.

The reason the waterphone sounds so unusual is because of the way the metal rods and water interact. The water inside the waterphone creates a kind of dampening effect on the sound waves produced by the metal rods, which makes the sounds more mysterious and haunting.

So there you have it, a waterphone is a really cool instrument that can create some spooky sounds thanks to the way water and metal work together to produce unique noises.
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