/r/outstruments
This is a place to share new/off-beat/re-purposed musical instruments, either your own DIY build or other professional makers.
I'm hoping this subreddit will become a place for makers aswell as appreciators of these types of instruments.
Want to create your own instrument but don't know where to start? Looking for inspiration or resources to building techniques or where to find materials? Post away and get some balls rolling!
I'll soon be adding good links to resources for aspiring makers as well as other subreddit's related etc.
other subreddits of interest: /r/UnusualInstruments
Great websites to check out:
Luthiers Mercantile International - great materials supplier
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I made a lyre out of an old cookie tin :)
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CYBER FOLK ("DIGBEE'S ELECTRONIC CHRONICLE") An Exhibition Book of Home-made Electronic Instruments
Hey all,
I run a gallery in NJ called HARPY, and we just published a book on DIGBEE, a very skilled instrument-builder, we hope you find the book intriguing. Besides schematics and photos of over +20 unique DIGBEE instruments the book covers the work of Craig Anderton, Charles Cohen, Michael Johnsen, and Nautical Almanac’s Twig Harper and Carly Ptak, individuals who served as guides and inspiration for DIGBEE's process and aesthetic. Below you'll find a link, photos, and a brief description.
Any feedback and support is gladly welcomed.
-MO
Link below:
http://www.harpyharpy.com/store/cyber-folk-digbees-electronic-chronicle-exhibition-book
Photos below:
Description below:
“Cyber Folk: Digbee’s Electronic Chronicle gives a thorough look into a unique, highly personal approach to musical electronic instrument building, an approach that is many things: naïve, enthusiastic, sincere, alien, and familiar. This strange future/primitive work journal contains the release of tons of data, beautiful photos, schematics, building techniques, and the inside stories behind many of Digbee’s most beloved instruments.
Also inside are artist features for Digbee’s favorite musical electronic practitioners. Within are never-before-published photos and stories of the work of Craig Anderton, Charles Cohen, Michael Johnsen, and Nautical Almanac’s Twig Harper and Carly Ptak.
Peppered throughout the book are examples of connected imagery from comic books and science fiction illustration.
This book was not written for a specific niche. Anyone with a curious mind and interest in musical electronics, experimental music, art, and craft will find a place of connection.
An exclusive flexi-disk (phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet) is included in the back of the book. The disk includes a song made using all instruments featured in the book, and was specifically recorded for Cyber Folk.
Cyber Folk: Digbee’s Electronic Chronicle is produced by Harpy Gallery and Selfish 60 Studio for the art exhibition entitled “New American Instruments” which will be up from July 20th to August 10th.”
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reflections about building a diy waterphone
Waterphone are cool (exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heGfThvFt6k). Therefore I am thinking of building one myself. However I am currently pondering over the material to use for that project. Apparently most people use stainless steel plates for the soundbox, and then bronze sticks. However, to weld stainless steel to bronze is difficult and expensive (ref: https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/18527/diy-aquaphone-material-selection).
I think it would make more sense to make the whole instrument in bronze and/or brass. The soundbox could be built brazing cheap cymbals or gongs (or maybe even a cheap singing bowl?) together. But maybe there is a reason why I have never seen anybody doing so. Is there on this subreddit anybody knowledgeable about this kind of matter?
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Ben Heck at Music Tech Fest. (My project included!)
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A strat renno I just finished
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The Hummingbird MKII, Manual mode
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MELQUIADES Maquina de Ritmos Flamencos
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BAIKAL ICE live sound
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