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====Steve Mann==== In 2007, [[Steve Mann (inventor)|Steve Mann]] presented a five-class, physics-based organology elaborating on the classification proposed by Schaeffner.<ref name="Mann2007">{{cite conference|conference=New Interfaces for Musical Expression|title=Natural Interfaces for Musical Expression, Proceedings of the Conference on Interfaces for Musical Expression|pages=118β23|last=Mann|first=Steve|date=2007}}</ref> This system is composed of gaiaphones (chordophones, membranophones, and idiophones), [[hydraulophone]]s, [[aerophone]]s, plasmaphones, and quintephones (electrically and optically produced music), the names referring to the five essences, earth, water, wind, fire and the [[Quintessence (physics)|quintessence]], thus adding three new categories to the Schaeffner taxonomy. <!--[[Elementary organology]], [[Aerophone (elementary organology)]], [[Gaiaphone]], [[Hydraulophone (elementary organology)]], [[Plasmaphone]], and [[Quintephone]] redirect directly here.--> Elementary organology, also known as physical organology, is a classification scheme based on the elements (i.e. states of matter) in which sound production takes place.<ref>Computer Music Journal Fall 2008, Vol. 32, No. 3, Pages 25β41 Posted Online August 15, 2008. {{doi|10.1162/comj.2008.32.3.25}}</ref><ref>The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, Print {{ISBN|9780199743391}}, 2016, Edited by Laurence Libin.</ref> "Elementary" refers both to "element" (state of matter) and to something that is fundamental or innate (physical).<ref name="physiphones"/><ref>Computer Music Journal Fall 2008, Vol. 32, No. 3, Pages 25β41</ref> The elementary organology map can be traced to Kartomi, Schaeffner, Yamaguchi, and others,<ref name="physiphones">Physiphones, NIME 2007, New York, pp118-123</ref> as well as to the Greek and Roman concepts of elementary classification of all objects, not just musical instruments.<ref name="physiphones"/> Elementary organology categorizes musical instruments by their [[classical element]]: {|class="wikitable" style="margin:auto;" |- !style="width:1.5em;"| || Element || State || Category || |- | 1 || Earth || solids || gaiaphones || the first category proposed by Andre Schaeffner<ref name="classifications176">Kartomi, page 176, "On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments", by Margaret J. Kartomi, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology (CSE), 1990</ref> |- | 2 || Water || liquids || hydraulophones || |- | 3 || Air || gases || aerophones || the second category proposed by Andre Schaeffner<ref name="classifications176"/> |- | 4 || Fire || plasmas || plasmaphones || |- | 5 ||Quintessence/Idea || informatics || quintephones || |} <!--the following image is displayed wider than 400px for detail--> [[File:Musical instrument classification by physics-based organology.png|thumb|center|654px|Musical instrument classification in physics-based organology.]]
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