If you want to learn to play the guitar it should not be that difficult. You can enroll at your local college, browse the classified ads and get a personal instructor, or pick up some video lessons. The difficulty presents itself when you want to learn to play the Banjo. No worries.  Banjo Virtuoso Tony [...]

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Isn’t it great how humans can sing or dance rhythmically to music? It’s a shame no other creature can…or can they? I think I just found my new wingman: a bird named Snowball.  He can dance, sing, and also has a pretty good taste in music. Check out this video where he is dancing to [...]

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Luigi Colani is an unconventional product designer, artist, and philosopher. He designed the ultra-sleek, futuristic looking piano called Pegasus using nature as the inspiration. Luigi believes that nature creates perfect designs: “I believe in bio-design which uses a vocabulary whose inspiration comes from organic shapes with their violence and sensuality.” The likes of Lenny Kravits, [...]

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Oakland, California based Joel Scilley is the creator of odd-shaped, natural wood, custom turntables. He prefers to use  burlwood and other uncommon woods to make these turntable masterpieces. Each turntable has a “unique character,” many using the woods natural shape and Joel Scilley builds the turntables to sound and work well. Most of the designs [...]

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Etymotic hf5 earphones review – I’ve had a really tough time finding good ipod or iphone earbuds. The ones that came with my iphone didn’t stay in my ears and sounded lousy. I bought some higher-end ones and felt like I needed to crank the volume up way to much to get good sound, very [...]

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Plasma ion tweeters are an evolution the “singing arc”, invented by William Duddells 1900. He basically reworked a carbon arc lamp – which were known for being fairly noisy. Now, William found that by varying the voltage to the arc, it changed the sound that was produced….  Bingo. Much later a fellow by the name [...]

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I just love creativity in music. We ran a story on the Kasio Kristmas music and the Gadget Orchestra, but this one in particular is simply amazing.  It’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody ‘played’ entirely with old computer junk. No effects or sampling were used in this song, basically the sound is coming from the devices that [...]

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Sometime bigger really is better. Adrian Mann of New Zealand is only 16 years old and has built a piano with absolutely no formal training. Not just any piano, mind you – the world’s largest piano. He took 4 years to build the piano, completely by scratch in his back yard. Enjoy.

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