Leonard Solomon Shares His Inspiration for Creating Unusual Instruments Like His Incredible Bellowphone
The incredibly talented Leonard Solomon sat down with Wired to talk about the fantastical and unusual instruments he's created over the past 30 years and shared how he came about making his first instrument, The Majestic Bellowphone.
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