Archive for April, 2018

Singers

Sunday, April 29th, 2018

The Singers at take apart day seen here:

A sewing machine being taken apart

This is at the take apart day at the FCMOD. It’s coming up again this Saturday and if I’m lucky the sewing machine repair store nearby will have some more machines that are placed out by the dumpster for me to collect.

Also FOCOMX was this past weekend. We purchased some wrist-bands and listened to some great music Friday and Saturday. No pictures this time… this was our 10th FOCOMX and there were singers:

On Friday we went to Washington’s for the Wendy Woo band, took the MAX over to Avo’s for the Robert Wilson Blues band, then walked over to the Tap N Handle for the Max Mackey Band. Took the MAX back to the North Transit for Musketeer Gripweed but decided not to go in because of THE LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING TO BE SEARCHED FOR METAL OBJECTS ! WHY IS THAT? Anyhow, since our car was parked near there we called it an evening and went home.

On Saturday, we went to The Magic Rat for the Songwriters in the Round with Liz Barnez, then The Mainline for the Choice City Seven, then Avo’s for FY5 and Bonnie & the Clydes. As usual, TOO MANY BANDS, TOO LITTLE TIME.

RICE MUSIC TIME AGAIN!

Wednesday, April 4th, 2018

More musical stuff at this year’s Rice Elementary Science Night!

Introducing the Carrot-Turnip Piano

Constructed from an Arduino Micro, voltage divider circuit, a very old laptop and a few vegetables this ‘instrument’ could make all kinds of musical sounds as well as various embarrassing noises, which of course the kids loved.

Home built instrument trio

From left to right we have a cuĂ­ca, a Rebab and a cigar box guitar.


Homemade straw flute table

I did this last year, it seems to be popular so here it is again.

Big Bass Banjo in the corner

The banjo is so big and weird, why not include it with the rest of the music makers!

Who out there can play a theremin?

Many have tried. Here is my old model Termin-Vox with the sculls mounted on top why not? Also, there is an old TV on the right that operates like a poor man’s oscilloscope.

Something about physics

This was something I cooked up at the last minute. It’s a spinning Helmholtz Resonator experiment and it actually WORKS!