Tom Fox of VulpeInstruments has unveiled another one of his creations, which uses the action of a grand piano to bend the notes in a motor-controlled drone instrument. It’s called the Dronemachine MKII.
From Tom’s site:
This latest instrument is an evolution of The Dronemachine I made a few months back. It uses the outer core of an electric fan motor as a pickup, a cassette player motor drives a piece of string which causes the musical strings to vibrate. The wooden peg looking things are actually part of the action in a Grand Piano, when you press down on the end, they raise the washers and shorten the length of the wire. It’s a pretty simple concept but it’s taken me ages to figure out how to put it into action!
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That is awesome! Off to work on my own version…
i’m telling you, send this link to Bear McCreary (composer, Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica) … maybe he can mix this instrument into one of his scores…
Thank you for the name! I shall hunt him down on twitters and leave unsolicited messages saying he’d love it.
So, it is an electric hurdy-gurdy of sorts?
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