Play on more than a dozen hands-on instruments in the Museum's Interactive Area!

• Lowrey Century Model LC/50 Organ
  An organ featuring multiple rhythm styles and features.  Includes an upper and lower keyboard that can be played with different voice styles at the same time.  Also includes 13 foot activated bass keys as well as a music recorder and disk drive.
• Daisy Rock “Rock Candy” Electric Guitar
  An electric guitar specifically manufactured for females including a Mahogany body, Rosewood fret board and two, Seymour Duncan designed, Humbucker pick-ups.
  
• Daisy Rock “Rock Candy” Electric Bass
  An electric bass specifically manufactured for females including a Basswood body, Rock Maple neck and two Select, by EMG, pick-ups.
• Goodtime Banjo by Deering
  Deering’s base Banjo model.  Features an 11” pot, single coordinator rod and Rock Maple neck.
• Moog Etherwave Theremin
  A five octave pitch range, nickel plated antennas, furniture grade hardwood cabinet.  One of the oldest electronic instruments.  The only instrument played without direct contact.  Hand movement near the antennas intercept the instruments signal to control both pitch and volume separately.
• G# Guitar
  An electric solid body guitar designed in Norway by Øivin Fjeld.  Body constructed of solid Mahogany, a through body Mahogany neck, Maple fret board and two single coil 6,5 Kohms DC resistant pickups.  Unique because of its miniature 530mm design.  The strings are tuned to G# which is equivalent to placing a capo on the fourth fret of a normally tuned guitar.
  
• Roland TD-20 Percussion Sound Module
  A special purpose electronic device which accepts input from the drummer via external triggers that are hit with regular drum sticks.  The sound module is programmed with a catalog of real drum sounds sampled from various drums famous in the percussion world as well as many other synthetic sounds.
• Roland V-Drums
  A series of triggers which serve as an artificial substitute for drums.  A module is used to process the signals when the triggers are played to create a variety of authentic and synthetic drum sounds.
• Yamaha Electric Violin
  A violin that relies on electronic amplification rather than acoustic resonance.  Has little to no body and is supported by a Piezo pickup mounted in the bridge.  Also contains volume and reverb knobs.
• Yamaha Electric Cello
  A cello that relies on electronic amplification rather than acoustic resonance.  Has little to no body and is supported by a Piezo pickup mounted in the bridge.  Also contains volume and reverb knobs.
• Fisher Price “I Can Play Piano”
  A learning system that utilizes the “Piano Wizard” method to teach children to play piano through fun and games.  Unit plugs into a television and plays songs off of a cartridge, moving images tell kids what note to play and when to play it.
• Edirol Midi Keyboard Controller
  A keyboard equipped with actuators (pitch bend and modulation) that makes no sound on its own.  It is intended to drive a midi device.
• Native Instruments B4 Organ Program
  Midi organ played via midi controller keyboard.
• Roland HPD-15 Hand Sonic Percussion Pad
  An electronic percussion multi pad designed to be played by hand or fingers.
  
• Ukelinda L.E. 2001 Ukulele
  A small four stringed fretted instrument played by plucking or strumming the strings.
  
• McNally Strumstick
  Designed by Bob McNally.  This stringed instrument uses a diatonic fretting system making for no wrong notes.  Anything played on this instrument sounds in key.  It also uses a drone tuning.  This means it is tuned to the octaves and fifths. 
  
• Mbira “Embira”
  A solid body electric Mbira driven by an electric transducer pickup and made of poplar.  Played with thumbs by “plucking” the tuned metal strips.