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.
In response to our homemade pipe organ post, MAKE reader NineInchNachos sent in this video of his friend (Fishing Boat Captain Brian Crapo in Juneau, Alaska) building a pipe organ in his bedroom… – Link. Previous: Homebrew pipe organ – Link. Related: Homemade instruments for kids – Link. Build your own instruments – Link. Andy’s […]
GetLoFi has all the links and resources you’ll need for making your own “Atari Punk Console” sound device, Circuitmaster writes – “The so called “Atari Punk Console” device is a great start for builders interested in working with components and circuitry to produce Bleepy-Bloopy-Gitchy goodness. Using a 556 dual timer IC and a handful of […]
If it’s not too late, and you’re a NYC area Maker looking to beef up on your electronics/MIDI skills, you might want to check out LEMURplex and this MidiTron class… “By popular demand, we are adding a new weekend intensive class at LEMURplex on Basic Electronics and Physical Computing. The class will run on Saturday […]
We covered this Speak-n-Spell kit awhile back, but there’s a new video and more info on the site, looks like a great kit to bring new life to a an old favorite toy… The sound samples are rad… – Talking Toy MIDI Retrofit Features Use MIDI to trigger thousands of sounds–words, word fragments, garbled speech, […]
I think this is the biggest collection of Halloween music on the web, each album is recorded from the vinyl record and album art scanned in – Dave writes – “Welcome to the Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music! I am making each album into a listening sound page! I hope you enjoy listening to them […]
Matthias Wandel build an incredible pipe organ, check out the story, sound samples and the build photos, he writes – “With my nonexistent music abilities, and my limited budget, I couldn’t justify buying myself a little Casio synthesizer or something like that. The only way I could justify owning a musical instrument was if I […]
Retro Thing has the history and some links to these amazing animated records, seems like you could do this with a CD player if you modded the heck out of it (would be worth it!) or just get a record and start experimenting… – “These were cardboard children’s records with the animation printed right onto […]
