Ranjit Bhatnagar’s 8-bit violin is all corners
There’s not much to say about the 8-bit violin, other than it looks absolutely retro-gorgeous. The instrument is playable (although if you skip down to watch Make’s Bre Pettis scratching away, you’ll see its just as hard to conjure sweet sound from as is a regular analog violin), and every part except the fingerboard and the round holes for the tuning pegs is squared-off.
The amazing instrument was built by Ranjit Bhatnagar of Moonmilk.com, who normally spends his time making sound installations and taking photographs with scanners. He has never played the violin, and made this one as a part of his Instrument-a-Day project, in which he makes — you guessed it — an instrument every day throughout February 2010. It’s worth checking out some more of his pieces, which include a hand-made balalaika played with an AA battery rubber-banded onto a thumb.
Can you imagine how awesome this would be if Ranjit got together with Circuitmaster, the maker of the NES guitar, for some kind of nerdy dueling banjos action?
Instrument-a-day 20 & 21: 8-bit violin [Moonmilk via Make]
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