Savart’s Wheel

My favorite expiermental musical instrument looks like it comes from medievel times.  Savart’s wheel is said to make the world’s most obnoxios, irritating noise.  What I heard was a mix of a thirsty camel playing very high jazz saxiphone and a toddler using a cheese grater on a guitar.  Dispite the sheer horror of the tone I was delightfully suprised at the range of sounds it could achieve.  Savart’s wheel, a delightfully dynamic disaster of invention. 

A sample of this fine thing can be found here:  http://www.windworld.com/feature_pages/savart.htm