Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
DIY Stringless Cello and Other Chordophones

Location:   Expo Hall  211   

These instruments illustrate how to greatly simplify construction of string instruments by substituting rods, motors and resistive touch strips for strings and using a cheap Sparkfun microcontroller to control music synthesizers. A monochord and 12 string version are currently in use by professional cellists; new 2 string and 4 string versions are under construction. A new guitar variant will be ready next month that substitutes rigid rods for the rotating rods of the bowed instruments.

Web site: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2008/11/11/introducing_stringless_cello_controller_two_bow_performance

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About the Maker(s)

Adrian Freed Adrian Freed [
Adrian is research director at UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technogies. He developed the OSC protocol and the first audio plugin standard.
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/adrian_freed

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