Cardboard Musical Box
You build a musical box with anything, my app plays the notes while you rotate it.
Build You Box
This part is very flexible. Whatever how your box looks like. If the paper is visible and vertically movable you are good.
example:
- a cardboard for the box
- an empty jar of peanut butter for the rotative cylinder
- a little wood stick for the axis of the cylinder
- an ice cream stick to manually rotate the cylinder
- a piece of paper to write the notes on
other example:
- toilet paper
example:
- a cardboard for the box
- an empty jar of peanut butter for the rotative cylinder
- a little wood stick for the axis of the cylinder
- an ice cream stick to manually rotate the cylinder
- a piece of paper to write the notes on
other example:
- toilet paper
Download My Application
You need a mac OSX 10.6+ and a webcam.
- Download the application here, unzip it, run it.
- Position your musical box in front of your computer, the opened side in front of the webcam.
- Drag the 2 circles on the right and left borders of your music sheet.
- play the musical box - keep its base still or the notes will be wrong.
Setting:
send midi: if activated, the app won't play any note but will send midi with the source name "MusicalBox". Use a virtual instrument to get the midi notes and play them.
octave: translate notes to an octave
instrument: select an instrument sound
scale: select a scale (minor, major, etc.)
Play It!
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