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Tom's Music Thing - Prophet 8: Prophet 5 reborn by Dave Smith Industries?

Dave Bryce is a DSI staffer who regularly pops up on the Vintage Synth forum to drop rumours about new products (just like he did for the launch of...

Tom's Music Thing - Dude plays really enormous home-made Flying V guitar

Is it a really small guy, or a really big guitar? Only you can decide (another clip). I know what you're thinking. 'Dude, that's a real...

Tom's Music Thing - Scary hacked animatronic robots sing Fergie's 'London Bridge'

The mighty Retro Thing (and many other people) reports on the work of Chris Thrash, who bought three stages worth of vintage animatronic robots fro...

Tom's Music Thing - Now you can play your hemp guitar through hemp speakers in a hemp cabinet

This is The Fatty, a speaker cabinet built from hemp board, covered in bamboo, and loaded with hemp-coned speakers. Yours for an eye-watering $1,49...

Tom's Music Thing - Headless custom-made android plays Guitar Hero

Guitar Heronoid is a project to build a robot (of sorts - one moving thumb and four moving fingers) which can watch TV and play guitar hero. And, t...

Tom's Music Thing - What are Daft Punk actually playing inside their pyramid?

Tom writes to direct us towards the Erol Alkan forum for the first pictures I've seen of the inside of Daft Punk's pyramid. I'd always ...

Tom's Music Thing - Complete build your own guitar kits

There's something appealing about The Music King's Build your own guitar kits which sell from £65 for a Strat copy to £89 for a Les Paul....

Tom's Music Thing - 31 people playing the Zelda theme tune on YouTube

I don't know who sent out the memo, but you can't move on YouTube for people playing the various Legend of Zelda themes (with the Mario The...

Tom's Music Thing - LCD Soundsystem really really like MicroKorgs

While watching LCD Soundsystem (on TV) supporting Daft Punk in Hyde Park at the weekend, I was totally distracted by Nancy Whang's mighty table...

Tom's Music Thing - Jamming with a 150 year-old Helmholtz siren

Bram writes to direct me towards this wonderful, strange and geeky clip of a Helmholtz Double Siren in action - it's a little wood and brass ga...

Tom's Music Thing - Bonkers Nick Rhodes pixellated Strat sells for 3,200

eBay item 150125503090 was a custom-made Stratocaster covered in LEDs, designed by Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. It was build by Sims Custom Shop, ...

Tom's Music Thing - An incredible multi-touch controller

If you've lusted over the Lemur, but you can't afford it, and you're not Bjork, so you can't get hold of a ReacTable, help is aroun...

Tom's Music Thing - Five incredibly vile pianos worth $1.2m

Through some unfortunate twist of fate, many of the world's most unpleasant-looking pianos are simultaneously for sale on eBay US:

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Tom's Music Thing - Mada Guitars are moulded from pure hemp

Mada Guitars are a semi-acoustics, built in Austria from hemp pulp. The whole body is moulded from hemp, so it has no internal bracing or support o...

Tom's Music Thing - Awesome custom-made pedals in tweed and snakeskin

Apart from one hideous snakeskin superstrat guitar, I love everything that Basic Audio make - a snakeskin covered wah/filter pedal, a tweed theremi...

Tom's Music Thing - In UR modulez upgradin UR filterz

Yes, it's been a while. Thank you to everyone who's sent fantastic stories over the last week, sorry they haven't been posted yet. Ive ...

Tom's Music Thing - The most awesome synth demo you will ever see

I've mentioned the Technos Axcel in the past (super rare '80s super synth with amazing display/interface), but here is one in action, wonde...

Tom's Music Thing - A gruesome new coat for your MPC-1000

It used to be that the only way to get yourself a Louis Vuitton custom MPC was a trip to see Forat. But now MPCStuff.com have a full range of DIY d...

Tom's Music Thing - Starr Labs: Still trying to make MIDI guitars after all these years

1985 called. They want their guitar synth back. What could be more wonderful than Starr Labs, a tiny little company based in San Diego who have bee...

Tom's Music Thing - Trinity portable studio looks pretty hot wrapped in plexiglass

I was never blown away by the Trinity DAW - a weird looking $1,000 self-contained Linux-powered portable recording studio - when it was announced l...

Tom's Music Thing - Marek's dancing robots are cool

Marek Michalowski is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His latest project is Beatbots - cute little robots w...

Tom's Music Thing - Building a Kaoss Pad into a guitar the cheap & dirty way

Inspired by Phil's efforts, Adam wanted to build a Kaoss Pad into a guitar. He already had a cheap old Les Paul copy and a KP1, but otherwise, ...

Tom's Music Thing - How Max Neuhaus got 10,000 people whistling down the phone

Matthew writes to tell me about Max Neuhaus and his remarkable Radio Net Project from 1977: "Max Neuhaus, who is a musician (percussionist), invent...

Tom's Music Thing - Beautiful, super-cute, tiny cardboard synths

I've completely missed the incredible work of Dan McPharlin, who make...

Tom's Music Thing - I want this awesome-looking Beatles book

Christmas is months away and my birthday is just passed, so I might just have to buy 'Recording the Beatles - the vast, fantastic-looking $100 ...

Tom's Music Thing - CSIRAC: The First Computer Music

No, this isnt the control panel for some WWII era drum machine, but it's not that far off. CSIRAC was Australias first digital computer and pos...

Tom's Music Thing - Best website of the year is up!

Every year, Barry Wood goes to NAMM, takes pictures of the most interesting stuff and posts it all at NAMM ...

Tom's Music Thing - Timbaland vs Finland vs SidStation

I'd been meaning to post about the already widely reported case of Timbaland apparently stealing a melody from a Finnish C64 demo musician. I d...

Tom's Music Thing - New drum machine from Dave Smith & Roger Linn

At the moment it's just a render on a poster on the Dave Smith Instruments stand at NAMM, but this c...

Tom's Music Thing - What's on the Behringer photocopier for 2007?

A huge pile of new super cheap effects pedals from Berhringer today, most...

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