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All with a shower holder? All with a shower holder. Where did this shower holder come from? In my dad's garden after he'd demolished a caravan, I saw a shower holder glistening in the sun on the grass. I wondered what it would sound like, so I flicked it, and enjoyed the inharmonic bell-like resonant sound. I took it home to make music. Why a shower holder? Limitations are useful for creativity. It doesn't have the cultural baggage of musical instruments - there's no repertoire, no musical history, no separation of normal techniques and extended techniques. The inharmonic partials interact interestingly with Western music theory (which assumes harmonic spectra), but the shower holder also opens the door to other possibilities. Where is the shower holder? It now lives with me in London. I sometimes take it outside so we can play gigs. What have people said about the shower holder? Stuart Maconie played Largo for 19 Shower Holders and the Ability to Slow Down Time Very Precisely on the BBC 6Music Freak Zone, and selected it for Best Of 2024. He described it as 'fascinating, a really interesting project' and 'rather beautiful'. Queen City Sounds, describing Shower Bath, compared the shower holder to an 'ancient artifact of unknown origin with powers of spiritual resonance' with 'hypnotic and radiant tones', 'undeniably compelling'. My neighbours love it too (maybe). What can be done with a shower holder? Old sounds and new sounds. Let's find out!