Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, weโll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool While visiting family over Thanksgiving I witnessed this device in use – “Mark’s Magic Box” displays song lyrics and note changes to simplify band rehearsals. The setup uses a laptop + LCD for storage and display – controlled via foot-pedal which was built from a mouse and housed in […]
Apparently these speakers sound “brilliant” according to the maker. I like the look of them, especially the blue foam base that the wooden spheres are resting on. More about DIY: Salad bowl speakers [IKEA Hacker] More:
Do you have an extra mp3 player or four in the house? Do your kids like to hear your bedtime stories? How about archiving them and setting up your kid with an audio player that will allow him or her to play them back at any time? With a couple of computer speakers, or a […]
Isac Zal’s Harmonic Generator instrument is an impressively visual beast of a device, complete with wheels for mobility – 64 piano strings on the outside of the device are chromatically tuned to 32 notes. 32 corresponding motors with bristle paint brushes beating the strings at controlled speeds a homemade keyboard, played like a piano, controls […]
Flickr user Gardenque created this exacting replica of a Korg MS-20 synthesizer in white. Elegant! – Paper Sculpture: In a Quiet Corner of Sussex [via Matrixsynth]
Aris is building an alternative to the usual black and white keys of music – This is another project I just started working on. It is a keyboard/MIDI controler based on the harmonic table (like the c-thru music controler). This one is just switches which all connect to a midi core module (from ucapps.de) which […]
Braden Stadlman wrote in with a link to the Springatron 3000, a gigantic spring reverb made out of Slinky and cucumber: This is basically a giant spring reverb made from 10 slinkys. I was trying to make the best sounding spring reverb possible, I think I achieved this but it is probably the most inconvenient […]
