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'Cracklin Rosie' Played on Franken-Phone-Tar

The Multi-Phone Guitar
There's nothing new about using cell phones as instruments. We've seen pop songs covered, entire orchestras of Apple handsets and even a ringtone mobile playing Christmas tunes. What we haven't seen though, is one person combine several handsets into a makeshift instrument, and become a one-man Franken-band. That is, until we saw this: the Phone Guitar, assembled from two Android phones, two Windows Mobile devices, an iPod touch and what appears to be several rolls of duct tape.

The creator, who goes by the name Steffest, built the mobile monstrosity as part of a demonstration on cross platform application development. His attempt to build a usable piano sequencer and drum machine app for Android, Windows Mobile and the iPhone OS from the same code failed, but that didn't stop him from showing off his creation by playing a frighteningly agile version of 'Cracklin Rosie.' Check out the video below. [From: Steffest Digitale Pulptuur]


Tags: android, AndroidOs, cellphones, CracklinRosie, diy, instrument, iphone, ipodtouch, music, MusicalInstrument, MusicalInstruments, steffest, top, video, WindowsMobile, winmo

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