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.
Sebastian of little-scale posted details on how to build his, water controlled Toriton Plus instrument. The project uses Arduino, various resistors, lasers, and a machine running running software you can download from his site. This would definitely be an eye-catching music controller for live performances – just avoid tipping the bowl while rocking out!
Nothing sounds quite like a vintage amp for that old school flavor, and there are plenty of them online waiting to be employed. But when you get your hands on that oldie but goodie, you’re most likely going to have to do some housecleaning and resurrecting. Enter this “vintage” MAKE article from Volume 02, back […]
Noah Vawter has been developing these rather awesome hand-powered electronic instruments at MIT’s Media Lab. Dubbed ‘exertion instruments’, they reconnect the players physical strength with the instruments volume. This brings a level of expression to electronic music that before seemed confined to traditional acoustics – plus no power strips/batteries! Check out the project research/documentation for […]
MAKE advisory board member Steve Lodefink made this totally snazzy cigar box guitar and posted pics to Flickr. To Dinosaurs and Robots, he sent the above pic of a cigar box amplifier experiment he tried. He writes: I thought that it would be cool to build in amp inside the guitar, you know, so that […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Leadtowill posted this detail shot of a rather excellent mod/conversion – This was a cassette radio. I removed the motor etc and added an input to the amp section of the circuit, mounted a spring and converted the speaker to a driver with a knife – the result is a […]
Make a unique one-string, electric or bass guitar out of PVC and wood.
Photo from Connors934 on Flickr Do you have a phone with a touch screen? Have you tried out some music applications and found the thing a bit awkward to hold? Last year I saw some people messing with guitar application on their phones at the Boston Fab Lab and it got me thinking. When I […]
