To get a full appreciation of what a guitar means to us, we’ve collected these wonderful creations from all over the world. Each of them features a unique, outstanding appearance, which may make guitars more like artistic works rather than instruments. But whatever they look, we can still find the designers’ love for music, and that’s actually the most important thing for a guitar. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Nobody would like to collect old cans, plastic or floorboards, but I would, simply because I’d love to make an interesting guitar by myself. But before you see my work, you can now check out some awesome DIY guitars here. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Matt Braun’s wine bottle can sing! You’d like to know how the bottle works? Well, drink down to a particular level, blow into the bottle and you’ll find it playing a note. Isn’t that great? [Read the rest of this entry...]
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.
Video after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry...]
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.
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!!
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.
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!
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!
