Moscow-based media artist Dmitry Morozov has created some cool instruments over the years, including a machine that turned cable twists into eerie music and a synthesizer powered by his own blood. His ...
The one thing you might be surprised not to find in [Laurent]’s beautiful tonewheel organ build is any tonewheels at all. Tonewheels were an early way to produce electronic organ sounds: by spinning a ...
In 1893, a Washington D.C. lawyer and amateur inventor had a peculiar and particular vision: to create a service that streamed live music into restaurants, hotels, or even your Aunt Edith’s tea room.
Furby toys were an unholy union of fake fur, poor animatronics, and annoying voices, but they aren't extinct yet. You don't have to look too hard to find someone with an old Furby in a box somewhere, ...
BRATTLEBORO — In the 1930s Burton Minshall was a radio repairman in Ontario, Canada. His wife, Maddie, was a pianist and she asked her husband to modify an old reed organ so it would produce sounds ...
Casio is a brand known to wear many hats. Of course, everybody knows their watches, calculators, and other gadgets. But for those of us in the music space, it’s their iconic range of electronic ...