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