Ryan McFarland

In October 2005 Kevin and i found a Creative Music Maker at a thrift store. That blog post was fairly high in the search rankings and as a result…

hi zieak,

i found your post about the music maker. i actually
have one, i bent it:

http://aliaspail.blogspot.com/2007/02/preparation-bent-festival-2007_25.html

the sad thing is, i broke mine. in a couple weeks is
bent fest and i’m supposed to perform. would you be
interested in selling yours at all? it’s rude to ask,
but i’m in dire straights. thanks for your time.

sincerely,
bry

The toy was rare. But i’m a fan of and have dabbled in circuit bending. He made a generous offer for the melody maker and Cena mailed it off since i was in Valdez at the time. She took a few photos before packaging it up.

Bryan finished up his bending of the music maker and it sounds like the performance of Alias Pail went well…

dear ryan:

thank you so much, our performance was a success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWqJ0-V2Wo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672z-y2U7eQ&NR=1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliaspail/

what’s your mailing address. we’d like to send you a free cd-r in appreciation for your help.

sincerely,
bryan

Embedded below is a demonstration of the sounds he was able to nurse from the bent toy.