Glissotar by Glissonic

Glissonic family

We are dedicated to transforming the landscape of acoustic music via liberating sounds on woodwind instruments that have been difficult to play in the past. Glissonic is an entirely new wind instrument family. The main novelty is that it uses a longitudinal slot on the instrument’s tube instead of tone holes. The two sides of the slot are covered with a magnetic foil that attracts a magnetized ribbon on top. The ribbon is fixed on the upper end, stretched, and lifted up from the lower end as a string on a violin. You can push down the ribbon anywhere, and it will seal up perfectly above it, so you can produce any note in the pitch continuum, resulting in a microtonal wind instrument. It can be played with eight fingers of the two hands or by sliding one finger up and down. The glissonic system can be used on various wind instruments: flute, recorder, clarinet, saxophone, tarogato, oboe, etc., or even the cornett.

Dániel Váczi – inventor
The Glissonic instruments are the inventions of Dániel.
He is a saxophone player, composer, inventor,
and researcher of musical instruments and games. He graduated as a biologist and studied Jazz Saxophone. He founded his jazz trio in 2001. Dániel plays jazz, world, free improvisation, and contemporary classical music with several other bands.

Tóbiás Terebessy – designer
is the leading designer of Glissotar, putting more than eight years into development. He is also the co-founder of Medence Group, a multidisciplinary design group with projects ranging from fine art to architecture. He has participated in different music-related projects as a designer
or constructor.