The Bendinator 2 Circuit Bent Keyboard

Hi, welcome back, today's blog is about my second circuit bending project. My chosen victim was a Boots Karoke Children's Toy keyboard which I bought from a charity shop for 75p.

The visual feel of the keyboard is quite sci-fi/industrial and so is the sound really. It's quite different from the Bendinator 1 which was more Analogue Synthy.

Here is a picture of the keyboard when I first had it.

Here it is after the bending process is complete.

Here's what i did to it in all :

Custom grey/black paint job

Blue clear plastic over vent gaps with inner lit blue LED (after removing side plastic bits)

Added Reset switch

Speaker Kill switch

Jack Output

Pitch Control

Doom Setting

Tranpose notes setting

Distortion switch

Glitch control with momentary on, and on/off switch

Here are some more pics and a video demo of some of the sounds, but because there are so many combinations of bends etc, this isnt everything it can do. I'm still discovering more effects, sounds etc. I will either update with another video or possibly a music track when I make a song with it.