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FLAMEnco: The Flame Throwing Guitar

Every guitarist wants a guitar that will set the stage on fire. This is that guitar – literally. Don Juan De Pyro turned his guitar into a flamethrower that initially could shoot multicolored flames up to six feet for about 40 seconds.

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C.24 Wireless iPad Piano Keyboard: Play Me off Keyboard Cat!

There are plenty of apps which let you use your iPad like a piano, but to be honest, playing on a toucscreen is just not the same as using a tactile keyboard. And while Ion has been making a wired iPad piano keyboard for a while, it’s not exactly the type of thing you’ll throw in your backpack.

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Email Typing Guitar: Rock and Roll All Night, and QWERTY Every Day

When you work in an office, sending emails all day long can be tedious and boring. Sometimes, you just want to rock out and play your guitar. Well, now you can do both thanks to David Neevel’s email guitar.

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Tenor Rupee Ocarina: Play it, Don’t Spend It

If you want a good Ocarina, it can cost you a lot of rupees, but this particular Ocarina happens to resemble a rupee. Pretty sweet. And no pots were smashed to unearth it.

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iKazoo Music Controller Hits Indiegogo for Pre-Order

A little while back, we featured an unusual little interactive gadget called the iKazoo. This wireless device can be paired with iOS or Android gadgets, and can be used as a touch, voice or breath controller.

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MechBass Grooves on Some Muse

Despite the increasing number of robotic musical acts, I’m still always tickled by the idea of a band that does away with the human element, and puts robots in their rightful place – to entertain their masters.

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Diego Stocco and His Enchanting Orchestra of Modified Instruments

Music is a great medium for self-expression. But if you can’t be bothered to play traditional instruments, what then?

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Custom Draco Electric Guitar Will Turn You into Ozzy Dragonborn

Here’s a guitar fit for some heavy metal rocking all night long in Skyrim. This chrome metallic dragon ‘Draco’ guitar comes from Emerald Guitars and it is awesome looking. It’s also fully functional.

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Tabber LED Light Sleeve Helps You Learn to Play with a Real Guitar

With the music games out there these days, there are already some high tech ways to learn the guitar. However, most of these don’t let you play with an actual guitar, strings and frets, so it’s not exactly a realistic training experience.

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Arduino Controlled Drummerbot Lays Down the Beat

This little arduino controlled Drummerbot was created by Steffest, and is called the My Little Arduino Drummerbot. Just like the name implies, this little robot can play the drums either by itself or along with you.

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Futulele: Not the Cheapest Way to Play Ukulele, But It Is the Geekiest

You can pick up an actual ukulele for under 50 bucks, but if you don’t like the idea of plucking real strings and would rather remain in your virtual world, you might want to check out the Futulele – which lets you play ukulele for the low, low price of both an iPad and an iPhone or iPod Touch, plus the app, plus a Futulele case.

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3D Printed Guitars Rock the House

If you ask me, 3D printing is the future of small-scale and short-run manufacturing. Assuming that the technology can come down in cost and increase in speed, many of the smaller items we use will eventually be 3D printed – at least custom stuff, like these awesome 3D printed guitars by Olaf Diegel.

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Digitar: Revolutionizing the Future of the Electric Guitar

One of my favorite instruments is the guitar, although I never really learned how to play it all that well. I’m constantly fascinated with the people who do, however, and even more fascinated by people who have actually thought up ways to modernize the instrument.

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The Badgermin Sounds Exactly Like You’d Think It Would Sound

What do you get when you combine a taxidermied badger with a theremin? You get the Badgermin. Yes, in this world of “if it can be done, why not try it?” somebody actually has created what is likely to be the first ever electronic instrument stuffed inside a dead animal.

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Cthulhu Guitar Perfect for Death Metal

If you’re going to really rock out with an electric guitar, you deserve to look like a bad-ass, right. Well, behold the bad-assiest guitar out there – formed in the image of the mighty Cthulhu!

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Ministar Travel Guitars: Perfect for the Vagabond Musician

These Ministar travel guitars will allow you to easily play music, almost the same way as if you’d be carrying a bulky electric guitar. There are some models that are only 19 inches long, and they lack something obvious: the main body of the guitar.

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Tag: Musical Instrument

FLAMEnco: The Flame Throwing Guitar

C.24 Wireless iPad Piano Keyboard: Play Me off Keyboard Cat!

Email Typing Guitar: Rock and Roll All Night, and QWERTY Every Day

Tenor Rupee Ocarina: Play it, Don’t Spend It

iKazoo Music Controller Hits Indiegogo for Pre-Order

MechBass Grooves on Some Muse

Diego Stocco and His Enchanting Orchestra of Modified Instruments

Custom Draco Electric Guitar Will Turn You into Ozzy Dragonborn

Tabber LED Light Sleeve Helps You Learn to Play with a Real Guitar

Arduino Controlled Drummerbot Lays Down the Beat

Futulele: Not the Cheapest Way to Play Ukulele, But It Is the Geekiest

3D Printed Guitars Rock the House

Digitar: Revolutionizing the Future of the Electric Guitar

The Badgermin Sounds Exactly Like You’d Think It Would Sound

Cthulhu Guitar Perfect for Death Metal

Ministar Travel Guitars: Perfect for the Vagabond Musician

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