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((Expand German|Terpodion|date=December 2020))
The '''terpodion''' or '''uranion''' is a [[keyboard instrument]] which produces [[sound]] using the same [[friction]] principle as the [[glass harmonica]].

[[File:Terpodion 01 gr.jpg|thumb|Terpodion Johann David Buschmann (1773-1852) At 1825 Berlin Signatur „J.D. Buschmann in Berlin“ Klaviaturumfang: F1-f4 (six octaves) Restored 2006/07: Andreas Hermert / Meike Wolters, H 830 mm, B 1296 mm, T 666 mm, Inv.-Nr.: V/J 417, Städtische Museen Junge Kunst und Viadrina, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)]]

Instead of rotating glass bells a wooden cylinder is rotating. This cylinder is coated with a special mixture. Only 25 instruments were ever built by [[Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann]], the son of Johann David Buschmann, the inventor of this instrument. Johann David Buschmann was first a [[Passementerie|passementier]], then he started repairing key instruments. By 1817 the instrument spanned a range of 5 1/2 octaves.

* In 1821, one such instrument arrived in London.<ref>The Quarterly journal, Band 11, Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1821
[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Rk_AAAAYAAJ&dq=The%20London%20journal%20of%20arts%20and%20sciences%2C%20Terpodion&pg=PA385 Online]</ref>
* Also in 1821, David Buschmann sold a licence for building terpodions to the instrument builder David Loescham and the cheesemonger James Allwright.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECkAAAAAMAAJ&q=Terpodion&pg=PA236|title=The London Journal of Arts and Sciences
| chapter= Band 6, 14 | date=January 1822
| pages=235–236
|publisher=Sherwood, Neely, and Jones|language=en))</ref><ref>Kinsky Katalog Musikhistorisches Museum Köln S.413</ref><ref>Polytechnisches Journal (Zeitschriftenband 13.1824) Page 154 [http://www.polytechnischesjournal.de/journal/dinger-online/?tx_slubdigitallibrary%5bppn%5d=32258217Z&tx_slubdigitallibrary%5bimage%5d=00000212 Online] [http://dingler.culture.hu-berlin.de/article/pj013/ar013038 Online Text version]</ref> Following this, only one instrument was ever built in England.
* In 1841, another report could be read in the London newspaper.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1sRLAAAAYAAJ&dq=The%2520London%2520journal%2520of%2520arts%2520and%2520sciences,%2520Terpodion&pg=PA350|title=The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c|date=1841|publisher=H. Colburn|language=en))</ref>

Examples of these instruments can be seen in museums all over Europe, including museums in Copenhagen, Leipzig, Vienna, London, Brussels, Stockholm, [[Jevišovice]] and Frankfurt/Oder.

==Technical explanation==
[[File:Terpodion2.ogv|thumb|left|A Terpodion being played]]
[[File:Terpodion 02 gr.jpg|thumb|Terpodion Innenansicht, Inv.-Nr.: V/J 417, Städtische Museen Junge Kunst und Viadrina, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)]]
[[File:Terpodion 03 gr.jpg|thumb|Terpodion Patentzeichnung]]
There is a certain relationship with the glass harmonica and the clavic cylinder. The glass harmonica produces the sound by friction from touching the rotating bells with wet fingers.
With the terpodion, operating the keyboard pushes a wooden or metal arm against a rotating coated cylinder of wood or other material, producing sounds by friction. For the lower notes the arms are mainly made of wood and for the higher notes they are made of metal. The arms are adjustable so the pitch of each note can be adjusted within the tuning process. The terpodion rarely requires tuning.
The rotating cylinder is made from box wood ([[Buxus sempervirens]]), but the patent states it could be any material. The most important aspect of the cylinder is the coating. The exact mixture can be seen in the patent document: 2 parts [[ethanol]], 1 part [[Mastic (plant resin)|mastic]], 1 part [[sandarac]], 1/16 part [[camphor]]. The vibrating parts are pushed by the key mechanism toward the rotating cylinder so a sort of hammer that is covered by soft rough leather, which is coated with same mixture as the cylinder.
The volume of the sound is dependent on the amount of pressure applied to the keys. The lower register requires more pressure for the same amount of volume as the higher register.

The instrument did not stay playable for long and had to be serviced from time to time. This may be one of the reasons why the Buschmanns looked for other ways of producing the sound, and replaced the friction sound production with free reeds on other instruments. The instrument had piano keys, and a similar look to the later [[reed organ]]s.
On the other hand, there were also instruments built that had both a keyboard for the friction sound and another one for the [[free reed]] sound. Buschmann was one of the first to use vacuum type reeds in his [[physharmonica]]s.

===The Melodion of Dietz===
The [[melodion (friction instrument)|melodion]] was very much like the terpodion. The one invented in 1806 by Dietz in [[Emmerich am Rhein|Emmerich]] was presented to the public by Petzhold((Clarify|date=March 2016)) (or Betzold((Clarify|date=March 2016))) in many places in Europe. There was only one main difference; all the sound came from vibrating metal structures.
<blockquote>"Der Ton wird durch die Reibung metallener Stäbe [...] mittelst dem mit einem elastischen Körper umringten, sich umdrehenden Cylinders hervorgebracht, welcher [...] mit den Füssen des Spielers in Bewegung gehalten wird, [...]"
Vom Melodion wurden bei weitem mehr Instrumente gebaut als vom Terpodeon.
"Seine Fabrik ist bereits in solchem Flor[irenden Zustand], dass beständig gegen dreyssig [(30)] Instrumente in Arbeit sind. Der meiste Absatz schränkt sich jetzt nur noch auf das benachbarte Holland und Westphalen ein, wo der Erfinder auf einer kleinen Reise selbst dieses Instrument [vorführte] [...]."<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=198qAAAAYAAJ&dq=Dietz+melodion&pg=RA1-PA718|title=Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung|date=1806|publisher=Breitkopf und Härtel|language=de))</ref>
Befeuchtet wurde im Gegensatz zum Clavicylinder dabei nichts. "- Und ohne Gebrauch des Wassers hervorgebracht; der innere [...] Mechanismus, hat wol die meiste Aehnlichkeit mit dem, des Chladnischen Klavieylinders, ist aber weniger zusammengesetzt und weit vollkommener ausgeführt."<ref>Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Band 8, Page 526, 527,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=198qAAAAYAAJ&dq=Dietz%20melodion&pg=RA1-PA525 Online]</ref></blockquote>
The tuning or retuning to up to a quarter note could be adjusted by screws for each note individually.
Readjusting did not have to take place at all if one was happy with the tuning reverence note.
The metal structures kept better to the pitch than wooden parts.
Dietz also invented the '''''chalybssonnans'''''. This used friction on glass or metal rods by rubbing the rods along their length. The sound was much like the one produced by the glass harmonicas.

==References==
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((Crystallophones))

[[Category:Friction vessels]]
[[Category:Keyboard instruments]]
[[Category:Articles containing video clips]]

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