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  Another unique instrument from Aaron Sherwood , the Magnetophone . I've previously covered his Glockentar.

  I've covered the quirky original ANS synthesizer before. This is the synthesizer used by Eduard Artemyev on soundracks for movies such as Solyaris and Stalker . A virtual ANS software synthesizer has been made, and best of all it is totally free!

A must-see for any synth enthusiast, this short documentary is about the birth of electronic music in Britain. Watch the documentary here on Open Culture .  Some topics included are BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, the EMS VCS 3 synthesizer , and features Tristram Cary and Peter Zinovieff in it.

  This is an insteresting concept: solenoids play glockenspiel imitating you while you play the strings. It is called the Glockentar and made by Aaron Sherwood .

  Here's a DIY hacked Cynthcart, which is connected to the NES, making this a synthesizer with the power of both the C64 SID and the NES audio chip.

If you don't know what a whamola is, this video will make it clear for you. For more info and build instructions, head to this post at Hack a day .

A mesmerizing video on making violas.

Very cool - the sequencer controlling the robot band is a metal cylinder with adjustable protrusions. Super sleek build!!!

YEAAAH!

The Otamatone is something like the monotron, but with less control for the sound, a much longer ribbon controller and a peculiar casing.

Matt built a 4-oscillator digital oscillator running on an ARM Cortex-M0 . And it's awesome!

Great news for all you guitarists out there: ElectroSmash have created pedalSHIELD , which allows you to download, or if you know C/C++, even write your own guitar effects!

If you haven't seen it yet, you should definitely check out Hans Fjellestads documentary film on Robert Moog, for free on Youtube!

Here's a free NES noise generator for you!  Check out also the other NES audio tools by Neil Baldwin .

Da Vinci never saw his beautiful instument design built or to listen it's sound, but now we can enjoy it - thanks to Slawomir Zubrzycki. Slawomir finally built the instrument 500 years after it was initially conceived.