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Electric glass contrabass Electro-acoustic trash banjo Bergeron accordion pictures by Zdravko Dimov

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sensor based accordion

The sensor-based accordion, created by Albena Baeva, Petya Boyukova and Simeon Ianchev, is ready. The technology is based on two open source platforms: Arduino and Puredata. On September 30 2010 Nasekomix will perform live with our sensor-based accordion during their consert at Sofia Live Club. The concert starts at 10pm. On Oktober 3 2010 the [...]

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electro acoustic trash-banjo

Елементарна частица from Albena Baeva on Vimeo. Or the Halldorophone as it was named by its inventor Halldor Ulfarsson. The banjo was made in Berlin during a workshop for building Halldorophones. These  electro-acoustic string instruments which send the sound from their pickups back into their bodies. When the sound has traveled full-circle, it vibrates the [...]

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electric glass contrabass

The original idea belongs to Svilen Ivanov, he needed something to hang his strings on and he liked the glass door of a cupboard. The design was inspired by a lonely useless piece of glass in Delyan Manev’s workshop for windows. The body was made there, then the strings from an original contrabass and two [...]

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