a funny instrument…i’ve never played it.
Dmitri Shostakovich also uses a flexatone prominently in his opera The Nose, to characterise the nihilistic schoolteacher in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and in his rarely performed suite Hypothetically Murdered. Alfred Schnittke used it in the death tango movement of his Faust Cantata as well as in the Tuba Mirum movement of his Requiem. “Weird Al” Yankovic also uses it in “Another One Rides The Bus”,