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.
Here’s how to make a fun & simple wind instrument from a soda bottle – The plastic bottle, this common object of consumption, this vulgar domestic waste, can replace the noble bamboo to ape a wind organ. It only takes, with a pair of scissors, to carve a longitudinal “whistling” slit within the body of […]
Here’s a really cool AVR based MINI recorder that uses SD, and LCD and IR (remote) – [via] Link.
Jason over @ Hackszine shows you how to run an iTunes (DAAP) server in Linux with Firefly – Firefly, formerly mt-daapd, is an open source digital audio server that can stream your music library to iTunes. Linux appears to be the most supported platform, but there is also beta support for Mac OS X, Windows, […]
Hand crafted electronic musical instruments by Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan – – [via] Link.
Tim Kaiser makes amazing instruments from old-retroy gear! He writes – Some of these devices and instruments are in my personal stage set-up. The rest are owned by other musicians and artists around the world. I regularly take commissions for new work- Some devices can be roughly duplicated, but they are all built one-at-a-time and […]
Flame-The MIDI Talking Synth is freaking awesome – check out the media samples! The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is a small-sized MIDI-controlled sound module based on the analogue Speakjet â„¢ chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation LLC. Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English tongue it was then refined and […]
Superoxy writes – Hey guitarists, since our ears are way up in our heads and not on our knees, its better if floor amps projected our music upwards. Here’s a cheap way to make a tilted stand for your guitar amps. The measurements I made for the stand are for my Vox Cambridge Twin Reverb […]
