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Kid loses instrument, music teacher makes him perform anyway It takes a certain level of skill to pretend to play an instrument.

Start Your Own Junkyard Band with This Huge Archive of Free, DIY Musical Instrument Plans Whether you’re after a classic three-string cigar box guitar, a wooden snare drum, or a Blue Man Group-inspired PVC pipe instrument, the folks at Cigar Box Nation have a massive repository of kits, plans, and free DIY instrument instructions to hel Read more ... p you make whatever you’d like to play from whatever...

Kickstarter smash hit INSTRUMENT 1 from Artiphon is now available to buy Take a Chapman Stick, add a lot of tech in its belly and jam a USB cable up its jacksie and you get something that looks vaguely like an INSTRUMENT 1. It's a..

The Octobasse, An Enormous String Instrument That Can Play Frequencies Lower Than Humans Can Hear The octobasse (or octobass) is an enormous string instrument built in 1850 by French instrument maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume that is capable of creating sound at a frequency of 16 Hz, which is low…

An Incredible Keyboard Instrument Constructed With Disposable Chopsticks and Other Found Items Talented Tokyo composer, musician, and instrument inventor Sami Elu, has created the incredible “Chopstick Piano”, a key-driven, percussive string instrument made from recycled and foun…

The Harpejji, A Unique Stringed Instrument That Is Played by Tapping the Strings Instead of Strummin In 2007, musician, experimental instrument maker and Marcodi Musical Products founder Tim Meeks, created the Harpeggi, a really cool stringed, amplified instrument that employs the principles of gu…

The Pencilina, A Unique 3rd Bridge Electric Stringed Instrument That’s Played With Sticks and Bows The Pencilina is an unique 3rd bridge electric stringed instrument that was conceived and built by multi-instrumentalist and luthier Bradford Reed in 1985. The instrument is constructed like a pair…

iPhone Gadget Turns Any Surface Into a Musical Instrument A door can be your new bass drum.

The Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 is a symphony, rock band, and DJ in the palm of your hand It's just fourdays in and Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1, the electronic device that can become almost any instrument you want it to be has already surpassed its Kickstarter goal by almost $250,000.The Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 allows you to play hundreds of inst Read more ... ruments on one device in a number of different ways using an iPhone as the controller. Not only can you play piano, violin, guitar or loop beats as a DJ, you can also mix up the way you play those instruments. You can play the guitar with the sounds of piano keys or play the piano with the sounds of a banjo, for instance.Artiphon is also creating a companion app so that you can literally program the device to become any instrument you want it to be. "Any number of combinations can be used," said founder Mike Butera.The idea for the Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 came about one day while Butera was on ...