LEGO Engineering: From Kindergarten to College

teaching and research. Chris is involved in several different research areas: particle-laden flows (a continuation of his thesis), telerobotics and controls, slurry flows in chemical-mechanical planarization, the engineering of musical instruments, measuring flame shapes of couch fires, measuring fruit-fly locomotion, and in elementary school engineering education. His work has been funded by numerous government organizations [...]

Live from Istanbul – Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov

us their folklore-jazz story. In her repertoire Elitsa Todorova plays instruments like the tarambuka, drums, maracas,clavess, old silver coins, shepperd’schimes, horses’ bells,a magical thunder-wand, guirro, chimes, but of all musical instruments the best, in her opinion, is human voice. Through combining authentic Bulgarian folk songs with the energy of percussions Elitsa Todorova presents in a [...]

How to Make Music Starting From Score Writing Up to Music Publishing at Site

All of my music is written by using a notation PC software named Score Writer, bought from Genie Soft. Every sound you heard is came from the score note instead of recording done through microphone.

 

First version of Score Writer was published by Cake Walk. But this version is not supporting VST instruments. The version [...]

Meet Ogbogu Okonji, the Anioma King of Traditional-highlife Music From Nigeria

Mention “Ibusa” to the other communities of Anioma and what readily comes to the mind is “Music” It was in recognition of this that the Great Azikiwe of Africa during one of his famous campaigns in the town described the people of the town as the “Congo of Africa” in early 1970s pleasantly stunned by [...]

Materials That Orchestral Instruments are Made From

Makers of the instruments of the band and orchestra search the world for their materials. The collecting of these materials furnishes enough romance to fill a volume.

The mellow clarinet note in today’s concert reminds us of great labors and sacrifices of native peoples in the tropical wastes of South Africa. The weird sound from [...]

Kermode Uncut: From Back to the Future to the Piano…

…You hum it and I’ll play it. Kermode’s replies to users comments on his blog regarding people who pretend to play musical instruments on screen. Go to www.bbc.co.uk for regular Kermode Uncut video blogs. … “mark kermode” uncut film bbc blog critic musical instruments “back to the future”

Can You Really Learn To Play a Musical Instrument From an Online Course?

Out of the 250 million people in the United States, about 25 million of them play an instrument of some kind, or used to when they were in school and would like to pick up where they left off. Another 30 million or so sing in a church choir, a barbershop quartet, or at the [...]

E from Eels goes shopping for musical instruments (2000)

www.RockingEels.com presents In 2000 E goes shopping for vintage musical instruments in Los Angeles. Taken from the Circuit DVD Magazine.

musical instruments from junk: make a poptar with Nick Penny

How to make an exciting stringed instrument from simple junk materials. One of the projects from Nick Penny’s book “Making Musical Instruments from Junk”. nickpenny.com

a few DIY musical instruments from Dennis Havlena

Hi – Here’s a short sampling of a few of the simple folk instruments whose construction is detailed on my webpage at DennisHavlena.com This video was made in my back yard, on the spur of the moment and is not intended to be fancy music — just to show some of the instruments, which include [...]