Of all weird instruments I’ve seen in my life this is probably the most hilarious one. The LEGO Harpsichord is an instrument build with LEGO pieces that actually works, built by Henry Lim after 2 years of designing, building, testing, …
Except for the strings, the LEGO Harpsichord’s parts are build from LEGO pieces (including keys, jack, soundboard, bridge, nut, …), the instrument features 61 keys, 1 string per key and brass gauges .012-.018 and steel gauges .008-.012 strings (with 325 lbs. of tension). The entire instrument is build with 100,00 LEGO pieces (approximate count) mainly with 2×8 and 2×16 pieces.
There’s a MP3 example of the sound of the LEGO Harpsichord playing the Goldberg Variations, where you can realize that it sounds like a real harpsichord (except for the key noise). A great geek instrument.
- From oddmusic
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