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In my humble opinion, the design seems like a terrible idea, resulting needless complexity since the piano may get wet if you carelessly pour water on the table… Of course, you won’t agree with me, if you’re just in the necessity to place a bulky piano inside your small department. So consider it for a second, the idea of the Piano Table seems quite valuable. So you like it? For $6000, you still like it? OMG! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Paintbrushes help you to draw beautiful pictures and instruments assist you to create celestial music. But the pencil we’re to argue today, however, also creates sound as you paint with it. How? Well, the secret is the sensor built inside the tip, which could detect the movements and therefore produce various sounds.

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I know, I know, it’s merely a T-shirt with drums pictures on the front, nothing special. But would I really introduce something so ordinary to you? Oh, guys, you should have had trust in me. To tell you the truth, these drums are not merely decorations, but ‘real instruments’ that make a sound when you give a tap at them. Have a try! [Read the rest of this entry...]

The thought never flash through the gamers’ mind that he or she could do something special for the game and other gamers. And the Famicom Guitar is rightly made to celebrate a gaming gathering. Coming with striking red and white, it is really a cute guitar, and especially perfect for kids.

Well, I like that! The ocarina here points us another feature of iPhone, that is, blows to produce music. A wonderful idea, right? But to turn the phone into an ocarina, you firstly have to get two more iPhones and a fixer (a laser cut body, for example). Totally three iPhones! OMG, no wonder the iPhone Ocarina is deemed as the most expensive one all around the world.

If I were you, I would feel hesitant to wear the Dancepants Kinetic Music Player. Not that it’s heavy or ugly, but you have to keep in motion to have the MP3 player work. In other words, the player is powered by the kinetic energy generated during your motion, and the farer you run, the longer the player works. Then, how long will you wish it to work? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Inspiration! The inspiration of music is nature, life, and it usually comes to us all of a sudden. So to create shocking music, we may have to try those inspirations out whenever and wherever possible. And here is a portable Stylophone Beatbox, allowing you to mix and record your sounds all the time. It includes three sound modes, Drum Kit, Beatbox and Bass Stylophone. Wow, so everyone could be a DJ now, cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

To the young office stuff, working is to some extent bull and boring. What better way, the youth ask, could add fun to work? My answer is the Washboard Necktie. It is made of stainless steel, measuring 18 inches long and 4 inches wide. And the main attraction of the tie is a pair of thimbles for strumming, so that you can play a beautiful piano piece while at work. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who is Otamatone? Dressed in either white or black clothes, Otamatone is a cute instrument from Japan that produces weird, monotonous sounds, ahhhhh…and you’ll find its funny performance in the video downside. Otamatone is played in a straight forward way, just slide or press any part of the tail switch, it then starts to sing. And when you squeeze its mouth, a vibrato effect will be created. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Have you ever met a clock that tells time with a beautiful mechanical dance and accompanied by a melody? If not, then you’re really fortunate to know about Seiko Dynamic Melody here. It is an elegant clock, of which the dial plate keeps changing when it alarms. And at that moment, you’ll see a flower gradually appears, according to the melody you select. Fantastic!!

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Aiming to diversify and personalize acoustic instruments, the ‘Rezon’ has recently appeared in our visual field. It has 2 octaves and 15 tones per octave. The tone pitch is decided by the different bar heights, the lower octave is on one side while the higher is on the other side. No matter you twitch the bars with your fingers or strike them with metal rings, you could always enjoy an inventive music.

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You could never fancy owning such a mini karaoke, merely the same size as a Moto phone! Apart from the basic function to play music, the innovative player is also your personal musical instrument to meet your unexpected needs of singing a song or making some phonetic notes. Only with one ORIO, you may change any places into your solo concerts!

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Even if you used to perform quite awesomely in music, you still cannot be kept away from Karaoke, let alone a KTV time at home. No need to worry about disturbing your neighbors, because the Mute Karaoke Mic can protect your voice from escaping with the damping material around your Mic. As a result, your voice will be kept in either the PC or a Nintendo Wii player through the USB.

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Music, delicacy, the wooden drumstick spoons have brought us the two most important elements of our life, even before Rock Band. When cooking meals, may you also wish to add into them some beautiful music on your own? Have a try!

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Made by a math professor, this musical instrument allows you to play it by tapping the 24 strings on the 24 frets.

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