Nice to see how wires and motors, can look like the human hand
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Robo Guitar Jam #1: Hydraulic Guitar
Quick mini series comparing automated guitars.
First up – the Hydraulic guitar. Nice concept, far from finished.
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Analysis of the Spectral Envelope of Sounds by the Human Brain
How does your brain process sound envelopes?
A team of scientists created sounds with different harmonic and amplitude footprints. The pumped these sound through a pair of Koss headphones while their subjects lay on the Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) machine. What they found may suprprise you.
Lego Harpischord
Here is the perfect way to spend your afternoon. Build out a lego harpsichord.
Rubber bands provide the perfect tuning for small rapidly built instruments once again.
Overview of Instrument Makers Around WordPress
Brilliant instrument makers out here on wordpress. Changing the shape of all kinds of wood, and broadcasting greatness from their studious.
Instrument builder Christopher Martyn has a few years worth of great photos – joints, clavichords, violins and more. His blog, finelystrung is simply awesome.
Bernie Tusko gets into the Nuts and Bolts of Nuts and Bolts.
Letters from Cremona is a diary of Violin making in Italy by Christopher Kurtz.
Silverton guitars photos the polishing process.
Bruno Guastalla posts his violin making photos.
Richard Nice makes ‘Nice Guitars’ and shows how to clamp guitars the nice way.
EDIT – More of his thoughts on dremels, finishing, book reviews, and more… http://richardniceguitars.blogspot.com/
Michael Wood profiles Simon Ambridge with a video of the steps needed to make a guitar.
Violin maker Stephen Churhchill shares some excerpts from “Violin Making: As it Was…”
Neat Piano key optical sensor coming out of the University of Maine.
Shape Changing Instruments 