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Are there any toys/low cost instruments meant for the "general public" or "non-musicians" that make great instruments themselves? Acoustic, electronic, unintentional instrument, you name it!

I dusted off my old Music Maker (http://www.europeanexpressions.com/Page ... _page.html), tuned it, added a cheap but good WCP-60G pickup (can be found on ebay for less than $7 new) and inserted it into the MS-70CDR and amp. The recording is a bit rough but I'm surprised by the really nice sound. I originally got it to try and express what I grokked from Bjork. I didn't achieve that but I still see huge potential with this thing, and it was cheap.

https://soundcloud.com/outofphaser/harpwav

You've reminded me that I bought my youngest daughter a loud-hailer shaped toy that makes your voice sound like a robot, she reckons she still has it somewhere so the search is on !

Paul_C wrote:You've reminded me that I bought my youngest daughter a loud-hailer shaped toy that makes your voice sound like a robot, she reckons she still has it somewhere so the search is on !

Record and post it!

JereFuzz wrote:

Paul_C wrote:You've reminded me that I bought my youngest daughter a loud-hailer shaped toy that makes your voice sound like a robot, she reckons she still has it somewhere so the search is on !

Record and post it!

Of course !

That harp thing def sounds cool. I can hear that being in a lot of different songs.

Maybe technically not toys at all, but tiny kalimbas can be found in at east toy-sized renditions, and they sound awesome

fcknoise wrote:That harp thing def sounds cool. I can hear that being in a lot of different songs.

Maybe technically not toys at all, but tiny kalimbas can be found in at east toy-sized renditions, and they sound awesome

oh man, kalimba is a must

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg24k7tzIc0[/youtube]

I guess SK-1/5, VSS-30s and stuff like that was marketed as toys at one pont. And they are fucking amazing

fcknoise wrote:I guess SK-1/5, VSS-30s and stuff like that was marketed as toys at one pont. And they are fucking amazing

Just listened to the VSS-30 and can swear I heard that on a song … I'll remember and report back ...

Love Missile!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfHxsjH0bUI[/youtube]

welp vss came out in '87 but song rleased '86 ...

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JereFuzz wrote:

fcknoise wrote:I guess SK-1/5, VSS-30s and stuff like that was marketed as toys at one pont. And they are fucking amazing

Just listened to the VSS-30 and can swear I heard that on a song … I'll remember and report back ...

If you've ever heard any sigur ros they've supposedly used it a bunch

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toy pianos are one of the best things there are. sometimes they sound like a broken glockenspiel, sometimes they have that odd plinky sound from the middle of "Aja" by Steely Dan.

also, the Otamatone features a long contact strip that allows you to riff by touch...my ex could play that thing like Ornette Coleman.

Thread made me think of this chamber piece I saw a couple years back:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MLMxn5wv_k[/youtube]