{"id":2339,"date":"2026-02-14T20:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/georgia-tech-announced-the-finalists-in-its-wild-musical-instrument-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:42:25","slug":"georgia-tech-announced-the-finalists-in-its-wild-musical-instrument-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/georgia-tech-announced-the-finalists-in-its-wild-musical-instrument-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech announced the finalists in its wild musical instrument competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A collage of finalists in the 2026 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, including Fiddle Henge, a playable henge of fiddles.\" data-caption=\"There\u2019s a playable henge of fiddles. | Image: Georgia Tech \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Georgia Tech \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2026-Guthman-Musical-Instrument-Competition.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThere\u2019s a playable henge of fiddles. | Image: Georgia Tech \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Georgia Tech has announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/guthman.gatech.edu\/2026-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finalists<\/a> in its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/guthman.gatech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guthman Musical Instrument Competition<\/a>. Every year, for the last 28 years, the school invites inventors from around the world to submit new instruments of their own design to compete for $10,000 in prizes. Past finalists have included founding members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/reviews\/608609\/teenage-engineering-op-xy-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teenage Engineering<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/11\/27\/20986018\/artiphon-orba-instrument-synth-looper-midi-controller-kickstarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artiphon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/30\/23002833\/roli-luminary-seaboard-rise-2-price-pre-order-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roli<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/guthman.gatech.edu\/2025-winners#chromaplane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a> KOMA Elektronik won for their creation the <a href=\"https:\/\/koma-elektronik.com\/new\/product\/chromaplane\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqUwp1dvN20xpam5KMXN32jXxPuwFqSsrW9qGoZ_DJZ_a-XE8TP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chromaplane<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This year&rsquo;s finalists are an impressive collection of oddballs. There&rsquo;s Amphibian Modules, a modular synth that swaps patch cables for a dish of saltwater. The Gajveena, which combines a double bass with a traditional Indian  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/879482\/georgia-techs-musical-instrument-competition-fiddle-henge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a playable henge of fiddles. | Image: Georgia Tech \/ The Verge Georgia Tech has announced the finalists in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}