Musical stones, like a set which will be played today at Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, were very popular with the Victorians - but few survive today.The 22 stones, which make up the lithophone, were crafted out of a rock called hornfels in the nineteenth century.The museum's curator Heather Millard says the instrument, which is similar to a xylophone or a glockenspiel, sounds"slightly supernatural...definitely disconcerting".
Heather Millard from Cliffe Castle Museum and Bobbie Millar from Quarry Arts play the 'Lithophone' at Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley.
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