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, we’ll 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.
GetLoFi points out this interesting instructable – build a feedback add-on for use with cheap digital delay effects pedals. Enter the “Apocatastasis” – Most expensive analog delay pedals have a feedback knob that lets you drive the output of the delay effect back into the input. My Ibanez DL5 Digital Delay did not have this […]
This homebrew version of the popular Monome is called “upside down and backwards” by its maker, but if you listen to the sound in the video you might come to a different conclusion. Also the buttons are replaced with pressure sensors and the interaction is a bit different as well. SoundWidgets
Hack-a-Day has a how-to piece on modifying/improving/circuit bending the ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs. How-To: Hack a ThingamaKIT More: Retro ThingamaHat ThingamaHat ThingamaKIT ThingamaKIT build photos
Clayton Bailey expands on the classic boinging-twang of the jaw harp with myriad handmade brass variations. Take for instance, the Gunharp – What do you get when you graft a jaw harp to a deer rifle? You get a very accurate jaw harp called a Gun Harp. You can brace it against your shoulder, point […]
A maraca with built-in piezo mic played through delay-looper & pitch-shifter effects can make for some good sounds … but upgrade that shaker with mannequin-limb enclosure and you’re in for some stylistically enhanced neo-surrealist good sounds. [via GetLoFi]
Justin Sabe point us to this item on Music Thing, a Pantograph-like jig for making copies of guitar bodies (and other objects). eBay of the day: Guitar photocopier More: Happy President’s day from MAKE – a look at a President who made things – Thomas Jefferson
Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun) The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, […]
