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Lava Music has spent the last few years impressing music journalists and guitarists with a bunch of carbon fiber acoustic/smart guitars. Now the company has taken a bit of a left turn for its first Kickstarter, with a string-free touch-enabled digital … Continue reading Smart guitar maker launches quick and easy music creation machine
You could argue that the American Ultra II is a blasphemy against the purity of Leo Fender’s first masterpiece – or you could evaluate this guitar without the baggage of its heritage. Either way, it’s certainly a fascinating and inspiring instrument.Co… Continue reading Review: Fender’s ultra-modern American Ultra II Telecaster
The humble capo has graced the gig bags of performing musicians for decades, clamping down to change the overall key of a guitar in a single, swift motion. Now, a new take on the capo opens up whole new musical worlds of alternate tunings.Continue Read… Continue reading ‘Guitar capo 2.0’ gives you five different note options per string
Leo Fender’s first solid-body electric guitar design, penned in the late 40s, was an absolute plank of a thing. You could row a boat or dig a hole with a Telecaster; heck, you still can, since they remain among the most popular designs in the world. It… Continue reading The Stratocaster turns 70: An ode to the world’s greatest guitar design
The progress for electronics over the past seven decades or so has always trended towards smaller or more dense components. Moore’s Law is the famous example of this, but even …read more Continue reading 2024 Business Card Challenge: Tiny MIDI Keyboard
The instrument which probably the greatest number of Hackaday readers own is likely to be the humble digital multimeter. They’re cheap and useful, but they’re single-channel, and difficult to incorporate …read more Continue reading Is This The World’s Smallest Multichannel Voltmeter?
A portable music production studio previewed at NAMM 2022 is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Playtime Engineering’s Blipblox myTracks is designed to give young creators all the tools they need to start making music.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Tec… Continue reading Toy-like music maker gets future producers in the groove
The hurdy-gurdy is a fascinating string instrument dating from sometime around the 10th century. There is an active community of modern enthusiasts, but one can’t simply walk into a music …read more Continue reading Ancient Instrument Goes Digital: The Digi-Gurdy
Pianos can become the heart of a home, and some become intergenerational heirlooms loaded with memories. Letting them go once they’re unplayable can be very hard, but an Australian sculptor has found a way to resurrect them, to jaw-dropping effect.Cont… Continue reading Beloved family pianos are reborn as stunning phoenix sculptures
Way back in 1981, Suzuki Music released a rather bizarre electric instrument called the Omnichord – a kind of synth you could strum. Production ceased by the end of the following decade, but now the company has relaunched an updated kidney-shaped oddit… Continue reading Suzuki announces the return of the quirky Omnichord strum machine