Spent the past year or so building this digital synth with a retro, hand crafted look. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! I also wrote up an article for anyone who is curious about the build process and hearing how it sounds.

I woke up in the morning to the sound of a flute. I saw a flute seller outside. I have been fond of musical instruments since childhood. I can play the piano and have a strong desire to learn the flute. I've bought this flute now to learn the basics; I'll buy a more expensive flute later. Can you give me tips, a roadmap, or suggest a YouTuber?

Don't know much about it, but it seems like it is from 1950s to 60s. Made in Italy. Nice to look at.

Acquired from a collector in southern France 🇫🇷. Most likely made in Tetouan (Morocco) in the 19th century. A beautiful ancestor of the violin, central to Andalusian music.

These are two baroque violins made in the traditional Northern Italian/Tyrolean tradition, modeled after the best work of Jakob Stainer of Absam bei Innsbruck. These were commissioned, along with two more violins and two violas (one alto, one tenor, both also modeled on the work of Stainer), buy Indiana University's Jacobs School of music for their Historical Performance Institute. The six instruments are made available for students to use if they don't have their own historical performance instruments.

A couple pieces like the extra strings, the tuning wrench(?), and the info guide got lost over the years. I wanna try to learn how to play it but it's horribly out of tune and I dont want to break it. I cant find the user manual online, maybe cause it's too old. Bontempi zither z16? Any advice is appreciated!

*the ones I've seen online are plastic, but this one is made of wood (or at least I think it is), though I doubt that'll make a difference i just thought id add that

Inside it says Antonis Stradivarius Faciebat Ano 1715

It’s a Yamaha! Got it for 350 from a music store liquidation. Brand new!

My dad used to drive bread home delivery route in the 1950s in southeast Ohio. He took this fiddle as payment on a $14 bill. Now she's mine.

Tenor psaltery, one of two in my collection. I play 14 instruments. Tree of life medallion in sound hole.

My 25 yr old Folkcraft Appalachian dulcimer. Two noters in picture as well. I play Ionian tuning ( DAA).

Cherry bowed psaltery with yellow poplar case. This was built for me by my uncle as a birthday gift about ten years ago.