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OpenPipes Revolutionizes the DIY Pipe Organs
Note: If you are considering a vacation in Italy in October, remember that Maker Faire Rome The European Edition, one of the world’s largest Maker Faires, will be taking place in Rome from the 20th to the 22nd. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a majestic pipe organ but thought it was out of reach, […]
The Quest To Make Player Piano Rolls Using lasers
I’ve found player pianos fascinating since I was a kid. The first time I saw a player piano was at the Mall of the Bluffs in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a grand piano playing away with no one around. A player piano seems like something out of fiction, a dream imagined by someone in the early […]
How I Built A Guitar Picking Robot
The idea came to me while I was listening to a great Seattle fingerpicking guitarist, the late Klaus Lendzian, at a favorite local restaurant. I’d been hearing him play at various venues around town since the 1980s. As I watched him play, I thought, “He’s really good. Lyrical, a great sense of timing. Wow, I […]
You’ve Never Seen Instruments Like These: Maker Music Festival
The Maker Music Festival is coming up quick! This educational, virtual, musical event is taking place on may 20th. I absolutely love the ingenuity and creativity of the folks who create musical instruments. They always seem to have an interesting twist on auditory excellence. Here are just a few of the awesome projects I find […]
Where Baby Dolls And Music Meet
I’m sorry. I don’t have much to say about these, but I can’t get them out of my mind. Now they’re in your mind too. This delightful musical device is made by Moon Armada. They make all kinds of musical devices, but the thing that stands out, and may maybe haunt your dreams, are these […]
Hot Off the Presses — Make: Volume 85 Is Here!
The new issue of Make: is making its way to subscriber mailboxes and the digital version is available for Make: members and digital subscribers starting today. And it’s packed! What’s in the issue: In this issue’s cover story, we go inside how an FX team built a working R/C prop of the famous disembodied hand […]
