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.
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 […]
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 […]
