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.
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 […]
Pat sent in this week’s “Cool stuff being made” – Trumpets! He writes – “When you hear the greats like Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Al Hirt, not everyone thinks first about manufacturing, but they should. After all, these folks are all playing on a manufactured product, the trumpet. This video […]
We Make Money Not Art has a great collection of Vacuum cleaner based music… Celeste Boursier-Mougenot’s Harmonichaos is a sound installation made of 13 vacuum cleaners fitted with a harmonica in their mouth and a switch that turns them on/off. Each is connected to a sound frequency analyzer (a modified electronic guitar tuner). Two more […]
MAKE Instructable member Gschoppe shows you how to convert a totally underwhelming foam skull into a Halloween speaker system… He writes – “I was at Abott’s party store in Littleton, NH a couple days ago and saw a foam skull. Upon first glance it looked like your basic Halloween prop, until I saw the LEDs […]
Here’s a really neat way to see sound waves… With fire! I think if I ever make a fireplace, it’ll have something like this. Twinrawk writes – “The classic physics experiment involving sound, a tube of propane and fire. Created for Flash Forward 2006, but useful in any case where you are not allowed to […]
MAKE pal Peter Kirn writes – “Over the past week Reed Ghazala, the innovator who’s known as the father of circuit bending, sent me two sets of resources from his new flickr account. First, you’ll find lots of fantastic and imaginative art and designs, circuit-bent and otherwise, in his whole collection. Second, he has a […]
