Moolodeon Electronic Melodeon 1

Demonstration of home made electronic Melodeon by Lee O'Donnell. See http://www.bassmaker.co.uk for description of how this instrument was made. This sound clip features a tune played back through a set of sound samples recorded from a Castagnari Mory.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Melodeon
• Arduino
• Folk
• Electronic Instrument
• USB
• Accordion

[leebybass]

Hi all, the website is back up with build details now.

As for the air flow, the air valve is still in place from the original accordian, and I created the right amount of leakiness so that it's fairly natural feeling as with a normal box.

Cheers

[TomE1248]

how do you tell the pic chip how much air is flowing/in which direction?

how different does it feel to play than a normal box?

[leebybass]

It uses electronic pressure sensors to detect higher or lower pressure than atmospheric. It doesn't use a PIC, rather an ATMega168.

It doesn't feel much different to a normal box.

[Almo2504]

That sounds better than the new Roland, and it's a lot smaller too..

[iColin]

Hey,

What happended to your website?

I am currently in the process of building a midi accordion myself, and I have been looking at your project a lot for inspiration.

How did you manage to make the bellows feel natural - if i understand correctly you have none of the old accordion mechanics left inside, right? Do you have some sort of valve tomake the bellows move?

[he214ab]

i like that

[eyeball226]

Very clever!

[carnutter360]

nice box, where did you get all the electronics from???

would love to build one myself

[russelljenkinsfearn]

Very very nicely made and played !