Dennis Havlina, an instrepreneur from Michigan, runs a website full of music resources and information about DIY musical instrument projects including construction details and instructions.

Instruments in the video above, in order of appearance:
-3 string cookie-tin banjo.
-A propane tank “Tambiro”
-Fiddle Hurdy Gurdy combo
-4-string wash-tub bass.
-Hardanger fiddle conversion
-Shower-curtain rod flute
-Old guitar to Octave Mandolin conversion

Above: Homemade PVC [...]

The redesign was more of a learning experience than anything else as this is the first Wordpress theme I’ve made from scratch (basically). Two days designing, one day programming. Let me know what you think! If you weren’t here for the old theme, here it is. I will be making some [...]

Pyrophones, also known as explosion/fire organs, are musical instruments which are sounded by explosions, fire, rapid combustion, rapid heating, and other thermoacoustic devices. The combustion occurs inside of the actual resonance chamber (the pipe). Fire organs are said to have been around since the 1700s! Modern pyrophones are usually powered by propane [...]

Here’s a curious percussion machine created by yaaaratheone for a Physical Computing class at Union College, NY.

Leif Inge, an idea-based artist from Norway, stretched Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to last 24 hours without any pitch distortion. “[The source music] lasts approximately 65 minutes, hence the applied expansion-factor is about 22.15.” This rendition, entitled ‘9 Beet Stretch,’ is unrecognizably slow, creating an entirely different mood than that of the [...]

To liven up the dull moments of living on the Antarctic ice, ANSMET scientists and engineers built a didgeridoo out of H2O and butter! Instead of the usual game of “counting the number of grains in a teaspoon of snow,” ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) pursued the mission of building a didgeridoo.

After several failed [...]