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Strange Music

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Tim Kaiser builds musical instruments. Very weird and cool musical instruments. Circuit-bent appliances, theremins, drums made from tanks, candle holders shaped into thumb-piano-type-things, and more. Here's a quick description of "The 400" (also pictured above):

The 400 with Flangulator was a commission from a very generous guy in Phoenix, who in-turn gave it to Nick Rhodes (currently behind a velvet rope in his London studio). I re-worked an old EH-400 Mini Synth brain into a new case, added real keys from a smashed Farfisa Compact and incorporated a hybrid flanger/ring modulator circuit. Also features a pseudo-ribbon controller for the stop frequency and a way cool "magic lamp."