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.
The Time Harp is a stringed musical instrument by Larnie Fox. It uses motion sensors to trigger what appears to be rotating plastic lids to vibrate the strings. I’m not too sure how close I would get with all that exposed wire! View a Flickr photo set of the build.
Ronnie Hinton of Florida made a tunable six-string cigar box guitar, base on the project in MAKE vol. 4. As the video on his site shows, he can play a decent tune or two on it! From the pages of MAKE: Cigar Box Guitar by Ed Vogel in MAKE volume 4 – preview online (digital […]
Peter Blasser is President and Designer of the electronic instrument producing entity known as Ciat-Lonbarde. The device plans on their site display a refreshing ability for incorporating chance and forcing experimentation – evidenced by instructions from the Paper Circuits collection (which almost simultaneously do and don’t make sense). […] resistors with an X can be […]
Gmoon wrote a hefty(22-step!) how-to for constructing your own sweet-sounding tube based guitar amp. Even if you’re not planning on specifically building this project, there’s a lot of really helpful details told from the maker’s perspective (even some informative regrets) – No project is without lessons learned. In this case, I wish I had: –Used […]
Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection is running a garden instrument contest this summer. Send in your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. Let us know if you enter!
The “WaveSynth 2.0” by Leo Peschta is a digital instrument that creates sound through the use of mechanical valves in a water basin and an array of sensors to detect the pattern and movement of the waves. The resulting data is sent to a computer which then synthesizes the data into a sound composition. Nice […]
Interested in chiptune/GB music? Consider performing the simple ‘prosound’ mod on a Gameboy Color. By essentially rerouting the headphone jack, you’ll lose some signal energy but attain a higher quality audio out. – Game Boy Color ProSound Modification – ProSound GBC on little-scale [Updated – lose energy, not volume. Thanks, little-scale!]
