Instruments

More often than not, MIDI controllers take the form of tiny keyboards with a limited number of plastic piano keys.…

If you ever entertained your fellow students at school (while annoying teachers) with an impromptu performance…

Lego continues its big push towards positioning its sets as the perfect way for adults to pass the time during the on…

Yesterday, Sega revealed its Game Gear Micro throwback console and if you think putting just four retro games inside…

Aside from nostalgia, or maybe loaning it out to filmmakers as a prop for period pieces, there are not many…

There are plenty of wild rumors, mythologies, and eyebrow-raising stories from the long history of music, including…

If you’ve never played around with Teenage Engineering’s tiny synthesizers—like its iPod-sized Pocket Operators or…

The Stylophone started life as a kitschy electronic toy instrument—the digital version of the kazoo, if you will—but…

Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa have been baked into a lot of questionable gadgets that don’t really need to be…

Hello. My name is Andrew Liszewski, and I’m an incessant finger tapper. Almost anything in reach can become an…

An instructor of mine once compared mixing a song to baking a cake. The various tracks are the ingredients, and once…

Paweł Zadrożniak’s Floppotron, a desktop orchestra that uses old computer components as musicians, performs one of…

Having previously wowed and terrified the world with his singing Furby organ, YouTube’s Look Mum No Computer is back…

For a short while, listening to popular songs played on old-school calculators was a fun YouTube distraction. Fads…

Those giant, curvy, concrete towers that rise above nuclear power plants aren’t only useful for cooling superheated…

As if the fear of a looming nuclear war wasn’t enough, Sam Battle, the hacker-musician behind the YouTube channel Loo…

By mounting a small camera looking out the sound hole of his guitar, musician Alan Gogoll was able to capture the…

It took Antonio Stradivari months to create one of his instrumental masterpieces, but you can make yourself a tiny…

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When you see a 15-piece orchestra full of trumpets, violins, and cellos, you’re probably expecting to hear a little…