Inspiration

Every so often while listening to a song, I'll wonder what an instrument is. And I keep telling myself I should learn to recognize more musical instruments.

What it does

Plays many of the more common musical instruments.

How I built it

The skill is coded in Node.js and hosted on AWS Lambda. Sound clips stored on AWS S3.

Challenges I ran into

I limited myself to sound clips in the public domain, licensed under Creative Commons 0. As a result, I couldn't find good sound clips for some instruments, such as the banjo, marimba and English horn. In addition, some of the sound clips I did find were very short.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I managed to find 40+ sound clips ranging from accordions to xylophones, castanets to maracas, fiddles to ukuleles.

What I learned

Got a little better at editing audio.

What's next for Musical Instruments

Add more instruments.

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