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.
Bryan Mumford has a few really interesting projects, I like “The Automatic Puny Tune Player”, he writes – The Automatic Puny Tune Player is a computerized Puny Tune “robot” that plays songs on an actual wooden Puny Tune by blowing air into the mouthpiece and opening and closing the finger holes with mechanical levers. For […]
This fellow is building an Arp 2600ish modular using Music From Outer Space modules, wow! He writes – So, 17 years ago I made a huge, HUGE mistake… I sold my dearly beloved ARP 2600 in order to buy an Atari STFM (remember those?) I always regretted doing this, and recently thought about getting another […]
Rauz writes – This is a instructable describing how to cumbersomely export your existing iTunes album art and arrange all the covers into a huge grid, leaving you with a gigantic, colourful and vibrant mishmash of popular culture ready for printing and, maybe later, your wall! I decided I wanted to do this a couple […]
Hon Lam Li’s Wall Piano turns any wall into a piano! – Link.
R. writes – The TeslaPhonic Organ is a MIDI-Controlled Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil (MIDIDRSSTC). The electrical system is made up of several subsystems. The first is the MIDI input and control interface. This interface for version 2 is based on the Atmel ATmega16 microprocessor. The TeslaPhonic organ – Link. The completed project drives a […]
Kari writes – I have always been interested in electronics. Building mechanical things hasn’t been hard either. Project started somewhere around year 2003 and I began the work by researching what kind of components and circuit are available and how to fullfill the requirements I had in my vision: * Must be mobile and use […]
David writes – The AirPort Express receives the Wi-Fi music signal from iTunes, converts it to analog, and then injects it into the old boombox through a car cassette adapter. The belt raises the tweeters to brighten the sound. All components were items I salvaged from closets, including the boombox-with-no-line-input, the Old Belt, and the […]
