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.
Although we’ve seen train car record players before such the kind that “drive” over the record platter itself and play tracks as it moves in a circle. This “Sound Chaser” is actually a train track made from old records that have been spliced together to look like a real track. As the train drives over […]
Jim sent me one of his Solar Theremin kits for this weeks build. My initial impressions of the kit are really good. It is very well documented and everything you need is included, except for the mint tin or case. In particular, I like the full color build instructions and schematics. I highly recommend building […]
Waldemeyer is one of my favorite makers on the planet, he’s latest work is an interactive illuminated chandelier for Microsoft’s Zune space in LA. Waldemeyer’s latest project, Twilight, will be exhibited in the entrance of the new Zune space in Los Angeles, from May 2008. Commissioned by Microsoft’s entertainment brand Zune, the interactive chandelier illuminates […]
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 […]
