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.
RP writes – This is a method to quickly and easily make a musical instrument capable of melodic percussion and noise experimentation. The thumb piano, known as a kalimba or mbira and by many other names, is a lamellaphone that uses plucked prongs called tongues, keys or tines to generate acoustic vibrations. The length of […]
Dingolishious writes – Inspired by MAKE and the Stylophone my first non blinkey light Arduino project. It is a 1 octave midi keyboard. The keyboard is etched circuit board wired up to the Ardunio using the pull up resistors on the board. The stylus is ground. Touch the note with the stylus and it send […]
John writes – I came across a link to this website in the comments of another blog. This site includes instructions for building tons of musical instruments including bagpipes, banjos, hurdy gurdys, hang drums, and many others. He also has some great videos on youtube which demonstrate some of his homemade instruments. HOW TO – […]
Wow, here’s a really cool small camera sequencer, for VJing (video DJing with a GameBoy)… Link.
Hacked QWERTY keyboard for triggering simple “tap lights” that then kick off loops in Live on a laptop, thanks Grandpa! – Link.
Nice use of kinetic instruments to produce something that could theoretically be considered melodic. MoonMilk Labs Link
Sorta hacky but pretty cool – The swooftronic 2000 is the original device in the swoof series. It is a very basic digital synthesizer that allows you to vary the upper pitch, lower pitch, note length, sweep rate, rest length and sweep length. Once you have set the desired value you press the play and […]
