The Smallest Piano
In 2006, the Sega Toys Company developed the tiny ground piano weighing 5,5 pounds. It fully copies the specifications of all other grand pianos that are used in concerts.
The Smallest Saxophone
There is a record in saxophones too. The length of the smallest one Bb Soprillo Sax is just 11,81 inches. It is referred to the piccolo class.
The Smallest Harmonica
The Little Lady produced by Honner is considered the smallest harmonica. Its length is 2 inches and its width is just 0,59 inches. The company presented the instrument like one fitting a keychain and generating the full function harmonica sound.
People often buy the Little Lady as an unusual gift for friends prodigiously talented at music.
The Smallest Violin
Talking about the little violins, we can name a few artists’ names as if competing with each other.This way, the Chinese violinist Chen created a 0,39-inch violin. It is produced from a marple tree and can generate sound. Though, it is hard to play at. It took the master 7 years to build it. He had also created the violins 0,78 and 1,37 inches length.
However, the record in producing the small violins belongs to Nikolai Sryadisty from Kiev. He managed to create the instrument 17 times less than Maslyuk’s violin. Its length is just 0,019 inches! The violin easily passes through the needle eye. The most amazing thing is that Sryadisty’s violin consists of fifty pieces like Stradivarius instruments.
The Smallest Cello
In 1973, Eric Meissner constructed a tiny cello 1,6-inch length. The instrument can be played. Its design fully meets the requirements for such kind of instruments.
The Smallest Balalaika
This record also belongs to Nikolai Sryadisty. He managed to construct the smallest balalaika consisting of regular 40 parts. Its strings each is 50 times less than a human hair. The instrument is made of wood.
The Smallest Guitar
The world can boast a guitar which overall dimensions correspond to the size of a human blood cell or just 10 micrometers. It was created by Harold Craighead and Dustin Carr, the Professors of Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University (USA).
The Smallest Harp
In seek of another record, the same scientists at Cornell University have also created the nano harp. For today, it is considered as the smallest string instrument. Its string 50 nanometers in diameter generate the sound of frequency which is too high for the human ear perception (between 15 MHz to 380 MHz). We can only watch its vibration in the electron microscope images.
Micronium, the Smallest Musical Instrument in the Globe
In 2010, the students of the University of Twente in Netherlands presented a chip reproducing the pitch of all instruments playing in the symphony orchestra. If to be more exact, the chip consists of hundred nano chips, united in a silicon crystal. The development was named the Micronium.
