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Jarre at the royal wedding : 1, laser harp : 0
I got an email from Dan Wilson about the recent Jarre gig for the Monaco royal wedding. Looks like an excellent concert, although the laser harp had some issues – and JMJ didn’t look too happy about...
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At the Maker Faire in Detroit
Spending the weekend up at the Maker Faire in Detroit. Check out the Maker Faire Daily stream for more info. UPDATE : Just got back from the Faire – always a pleasure to go to these, and nice that...
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…fixing up a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer
A couple of years ago I bought a Roland Juno 60 from eBay. It was in “fairly good” condition but was very dirty and the faders did not work properly. There also seemed to be a sticky (beer?) substance...
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Jarre demo’s “Mini” laser harp at Hamburg concert
Ricardo Melo just sent me a link to footage of Jarre’s recent gig in Hamburg. Looks like he’s added a mini laser harp to his rig. Looks like it uses a straight “interruption” trigger built into the...
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Air Guitar? …meet Air Piano
My buddy John Claeys sent me a link to this video of the AirPiano device being demonstrated by Jo Hamilton. I’ve not been able to find out too much about the design or origins of the instrument. It...
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…Fritz Lang’s Theremin Stand
(Sounds like something you’d find in Warehouse 13) For many weeks I’ve been trying to come up with a cabinet design for the vacuüm tube Theremin I built a while ago. I decided that the electronics...
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…infringing patents (probably)
I’ve been meaning to build one of these for ages. Can anyone guess what it is? It’s not a Taser, or one of those shocking buzzer things – the clue is that the coils are well “potted” and have very...
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…Orbital Spex for under a tenner (dollars that is…)
Sure, you can buy those centrally-located LED miner’s lamps, but nothing says 90′s geek chic like your very own Orbital glasses. Now you can recreate those halcyon (harr harr) days of almost pitch...
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FAME! I wanna live forever (etc…)
I just got an email from Pierre-Alain (thanks!) alerting me to the fact that my picture was being used to sell a sound font of the laser harp. Fancy that – I contacted the seller, and reported the...
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…a Goatskin drum (Bodhrán)
Ever since I saw Mike Oldfield remix the Blue Peter theme back in the 80′s I was fascinated with the strange looking drum be played half way through… It was only recently that I found out it was called...
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